[Music]
this morning most of all of you
they got up they walked they came to their
They reach truck working somewhere
they rode on the subway they rode on the
metroplús on the tram
the question is how many of you
They appreciated because they can walk
my life is very funny was a child
from 0 to seven years a child
normal in cava jumped I had fun with
my next door has a normal life like
any one or any of all
normal children of 20 of the seven years
seven years one day I got up
I was bathing me touch me
discovered the balls and my life changed
they discovered me cannes to be one of the
children who had millions of friends my
life changed to only having the
stories of the women of my life
every day and those stories in the
that fills its catwalks every day
what you hear every day
when I give interviews
sitting in my house listening to my mom to my
grandma hearing those women who travel
for the Colombian Caribbean that had the
ability to transform lives to
others
those women at most manjarrez a
woman who traveled throughout the Caribbean and
falls in love with the heras of the hammocks
a woman like luisa santiaga that one day
the sentences so he does not marry the
telegrapher a common female woman who
we could get married and I could not live
as a mother because I had to go 14 years
mourning
all those stories filled my life and
my Aaron power with women
so little by little it was growing last seven
years with cancer and seven years of hearing
life stories when I was a little bit older
big
one day I decided and I thought that she has a
foundation for children with capsa said is
it easier to have the foundation
children with cancer but I also thought and
I said I ‘m not a doctor
I’m not a doctor like my dad the only thing
I know how to do is design through design
could build the way others teach them
a color a flavor an aroma a size and
change the lives of others through
of design and so I started working
to work with different communities
craft all over the country to work
with displaced women reinserted
women who lived traveling through Colombia
women who had the ability to
transform a material and I started to create
opportunities and will tell you about
very interesting stories in a village
that is called san jose took out that the
most should know because they know
our Colombian culture
san josé is something that between
Barranquilla and Cartagena is a town of
displacement where most
women are in extreme poverty
these women every day they did
garment cleaning most all
we know that it is a clear garment cleaning
it’s not washing ironing does not start garments
is when the garment is finished
they took away all ages
garments
that is to clean the garments in a job
like the craft of sewing
I came to this town and this
municipality and we teach them how to sew
make empowering and do
your own designs
these women now make custom to
sustainable through the network his trade
daily that is making leave
clean garments and now they are
empowered and sewed every day
clothes to sell one of the stories
stronger for me was to reach mounts
from maría montes de maría san jacinto
bolivar
I think most people know where it is
located in Montes de María mountains
Maria was one of the places where
impact of the Colombian violence uu
because there were guerrillas and
paramilitaries
when I got to work with these
women there were only 10 women to
work the majority towards an occupation that
they had been taught they had been taught
an opportunity
the opportunity was to make products with
eggshells
It seemed very strange to me that I know
they made bullfighters with egg shells
the first time everyone gets the
Purchase pity the second generate
a fake opportunity
by sitting down to talk to them and to hear
I started hearing Yomaira and Yomaira
He said that tradition in tradition
the traditional office of his family was
weave the Colombian hammocks in san
hyacinth are hammocks where
many sleep every day
these women lived the most impact
strong because one day in your town
came the paramilitaries and the
guerrilla and I had a showdown
most of their husbands killed them and
they played with the heads of their husbands
football
these women had the courage to
charge your children to go out and defend
the few men left in the
town is our country reality but
we can give you a new opportunity what
what I did with the fabrics of the hammocks
that many of us sleep we can make skirts
who have traveled in different parts
of the world
handbags I’m also inspired by those
stories that my grandmother told me
maximum manjarrez in the stripes of the
hammocks to make collections and to
through the hammocks have traveled by
different parts of the world
the fabrics that they already knew how to make from
small but who preferred to do
egg vases
so little by little these hammocks have been
present in all the collections that
I do in my day to day
one of the most beautiful stories for me
is the Wayúu community that we all know
who are the Wayúu indigenous people
indigenous Wayúu are located north
of our country in the guajira
these women are rat women
women who get up every day to
weave backpacks
I arrived approximately many years ago
11 years to know them and how great
designer that I thought was coming to
impose weaving
straight or they want you flat and
one day
conchita I feel one of my biggest
friends bayo and Juan tells me pablo
we do not have a plan because
the sacred spider that is called what
they want low the tree taught them to
Knit circularly each time
you see a backpack to understand
why is this form woven because the
spider taught them how to weave the shape
circle each wayúu backpack that you
sometimes they demerit on the street like chi
those that tell the story and the DNA
Colombian
they represent the sky the sun and so
little by little learning would open them
listen to them
I understood and now to explain the
colors
so for example I want the
backpack be black I explain them
Let’s make a deep sky
dark so that that backpack is black and
so that the airs the whites that
we are we can use it that little
I’m traveling and telling stories
with all these women women are
part of my family are the ade and that’s
what I do every day travel little to
little by colombia enjoying knowing
every place every woman every moment every
time to start again so
every collection I make is a new
opportunity for me and for so many
Colombian women that we can
empower work every day in
different parts of the country can be
in cucunubá or being the caribbean can
be in Medellín to be in
different places
today I thank you because I have the
opportunity to life to walk to the
18 years old I was a wheelchair
Today I run every day not today
I only have one aunt a grandmother
Today I have an Aunt Wayuu, I have a mom
indigenous
I have a bitter here I have a cousin
victim of violence
I have a great family in all colombia
and that’s why I’m still weaving stories
by hand
[Applause]
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