The Award Ceremony was held for the El Botón-MANGO Fashion Awards, the biggest prize in international fashion, which was won by the Belgian designer or Israeli origin, Lena Lumelsky. The award ceremony took place at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) in Barcelona with Isak Andic, the Chairman of the company, hosting the event.
The event was attended by Scarlett Johansson, the current image of the brand, and by Jean Paul Gaultier, Chairman of the Jury, who received the Botón de Oro as a lifelong achievement award.
This spectacular night brought together numerous celebrities such as Boris Izaguirre and Ana García Siñeriz, the hosts of the gala, Naty Abascal, Cari Lapique, Carla Goyanes, Eugenia Martínez de Irujo, Jaime de Marichalar, the Princes of Vidin (Konstantin de Bulgaria and María García de la Rasilla), Olivia de Borbón, Fernando Gómez-Acebo and his wife Mónica Martín Luque, Diego Osorio, Álvaro de Marichalar and Ekaterina, Carmen Jordá, Julio Benítez, Anne Igartiburu, Paloma Lago, Aitor Ocio, Arancha Sánchez-Vicario and her husband, the actresses Leticia Dolera, Clara Lago and Aida Folch, among others.
The event was also attended by numerous celebrities from the fashion world, including Nieves Álvarez, who sat on the Jury, Teresa Baca Astolfi, Priscila de Gustin, Davinia Pelegrí and Oriol Elcacho, Vanessa Lorenzo, Miguel Iglesias, Amparo Bonmatí and Antonio Navas, as well as the designers José Castro, Estrella Archs, Purificación García, Iñaki Muñoz (Ailanto), Teresa Helbig and Soledad Álvarez.
The Award Ceremony was attended by José Montilla, President of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Jordi Hereu, Mayor of Barcelona and the politicians Artur Mas, accompanied by his wife, Helena Rakosnik, and Xavier Trias, among others.
Declaracions by Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson declared: I have never attended these awards before, it is a new experience for me. I think it is fantastic for these young designers to have the opportunity to win such an incredible award. I think it is an excellent initiative. On her collaboration and the opportunity to create a design for MANGO, she commented: I am currently collaborating with MANGO on the design of bags for charitable purposes, in order to help organisations like Intermón Oxfam. It is a very simple collaboration. They say to me: Do what you want and for who you want.
MANGO is a very generous brand that allows me this freedom to create, and also to choose the charitable organisation to work with. I think it's fun collaborating with MANGO. In relation to her future plans on a personal level she explains: In 10 years... I hope to have a family, perhaps, perhaps not... I would like to continue acting in films, to produce… I don't know, in truth I don't think of the future. I try to live in the present and I can't imagine what it would be like.
Declaracions by Jean Paul Gaultier With regard to the MANGO Fashion Awards, Jean Paul Gaultier commented: An award like this is a great opportunity for young designers. As well as being a very generous financial award, the opportunity to produce a collection for a brand like MANGO is very important and can open many doors. If a competition like this one had existed when I started designing, I would have entered without hesitation.
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