PAYING TRIBUTE: Furla is marking Worldwide Girls’s Day on Saturday by underscoring its robust dedication to the empowerment of feminine expertise, and paying tribute by means of a video and pictures to the contributions of its feminine workers to the model’s success.
“At Furla, we imagine that ladies’s empowerment isn’t just a worth to be celebrated on particular events, however a guideline that permeates our each day company tradition,” mentioned Giovanna Furlanetto, president of Fondazione Furla, and a member of the second era of the founding household. “Our objective is to create concrete alternatives for girls by fostering an inclusive setting and management that evokes the subsequent era to present their greatest.”
In an announcement, Furla mentioned 80 % of its workers are ladies from 80 nationalities, and 53 % maintain apical positions, together with C-level roles.
The equipment model is launching an initiative aimed toward empowering ladies inside the firm by providing management coaching programs designed particularly for its feminine workers. The management courses will concentrate on totally different ranges, comparable to strategic considering, communication, household steadiness, cross-cultural talks, decision-making and negotiation expertise, making certain that each participant can improve their management capabilities, with the purpose of rewarding its feminine workers.
Furlanetto has been carrying ahead her household’s legacy, advocating for equal alternatives, and the model has been devoted for a number of years to supporting ladies in several fields, comparable to artwork, music and style. By means of the Furla Prize for Artwork, established in 2000 in collaboration with the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, younger artists have been helped to develop by offering a springboard for his or her careers.
The growing dedication to the humanities led to the founding of Fondazione Furla in 2008, and with the Furla Collection — a program to help ladies in artwork — the present curators Bruna Roccasalva and Vincenzo De Bellis have been presenting worldwide ladies artists since 2017 who’re typically socially engaged, comparable to Andrea Bowers, an American activist and feminist artist.
Furla has additionally supported ladies within the music business. For the relaunch of its signature Metropolis Remix bag in 2023, Furla partnered with She Is the Music, a nonprofit group based by Alicia Keys to extend the illustration of ladies within the music business and foster the event of younger feminine artists by means of instructional applications comparable to all-women songwriting camps, mentorship applications and the most important world database of ladies in music.
