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Social Project /
Proyecto Social
[EN] The artisanal manufacture of our collections is
carried out in cooperation with various communities
in India, with whom we maintain a consolidated social
and development commitment. Our artisan teams
are mostly female, and our goal is to help them
achieve economic independence through stable
and well-paid work. Thus, in 2010, our GAN Women’s
Unit was created in Uttar Pradesh by coordinating
a group of embroiderers who had lost their jobs
and by entrusting them to work on a new Patricia
Urquiola collection. The designer created Bandas by
considering the specific skills that these women had,
adapting her design to favor work-life balance. Since
then, designers working with GAN are encouraged
to include embroidery, needlepoint or crochet in
their collections so that this unit can keep growing.
GAN collections thus benefit from the skills of these
artisans and they, in return, receive a fair salary and
gain decision power and independence.
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