Silvia Mariotti

Female

Milan

Italy

Profile Information:

Profession / role:
Student
My primary role in relation to fashion is:
Consumer, Model, Student
I am looking to discover or buy
Job / Internship opportunities, people to talk with about fashion and movies
About me / About business or organisation:
I am a graduate student attending a Master of Science in Management at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy).
My bachelor dissertation was on Ethical Fashion and on how that could lead to a superior source of competitive advantage.
While writing my dissertation i became very interested in the topic and im currently looking for job or internship opportunities, besides occasions to go into more depht in the Ethical Fashion world, by discussing and exchanging views with other people.
In my free time i model, not as a professional but just for occasional jobs, since im very focused on my studies; finally, im very interested in art and film history.
Career history / Company history:
I have a Bachelor of Management in Art, Culture and Communication, and Im currently attending the last year of a MSc in Management, both of them at Bocconi University, Milan.

Comment Wall:

  • David McGill

    Hi Silvia. Any particular aspect of ethical fashion?
  • David McGill

    The new craze for (fairtrade certified) ethical organic cotton in the fashion world seems to be the in-thing at the moment. In general terms it has to be better than the alternative and to be fair there are a lot of good projects arising from it. Its also forcing the big brands to look at how and where they obtain cloth and products. It does however raise certain questions.

    Why is fairtrade so called? Why isnt trade automatically fair.

    I have always wondered too how it is that ethical products cost as much as they do when the middleman is supposedly being missed out.

    What does ethical in ethical fashion actually mean? Is it simply ensuring that the carbon footprint in creating cloth is less or that suppliers get a slightly better living wage: sufficient to make life a little more tolerable. Presumably its both.

    Given the scale of the problems in the third world are we deceiving ourselves by thinking were making a real difference or are we simply sticking pins in elephants?
    I cant believe that producing some organic cloth for the fashion industry iis going to make any significant diffference. Things need to be done on a much bigger scale.

    I believe that most of the world's problems will be solved by a greater distribution of wealth - sharing - and try to take a different approach By giving countries a cloth with a 'national' design I hope to give them an 'international' identity and one with which people in the first world can recognise and empathise.
    When people think Africa' they seldom think of 52 separate countries with several ethic groups in each. (Nigeria has 500 with 250 dialects and 5 different forms of law). Instead they think of just one big country where most people are black. With each tartan design using the colours from each respectrive country's national flag they each have an icon which distinguises one from the other.

    Secondly by giving a % of the profits from sales in the first world we can begin to invest in the third world so that they can operate sustainable businesses for themselves. After pouring £560 billion into Africa over the last 40 years we have only succeeded in making it into the poorest continent in the world. A new approach is needed.

    The flexible natue of tartan as a design means that I can also produce it in paper form: wrapping paper, gift/carrier bags, labels, etc.

    I have a lot of stuff on this. If you wish you can mail me at davidmcgill61@yahoo.co.uk