[vc_row el_class=”content-row-width” css=”.vc_custom_1746768917156{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1779442412289{margin-top: 0px !important;}” el_class=”inner-content”]On the hills of Como, where the city offers a view of the lake from above, there is a social tailoring workshop where accessories are sewn \u2013 bags, backpacks, but also dresses, trousers, and blazers \u2013 and stories and relationships of people who came from afar, fleeing poverty and war, are sewn up. \u201cTorn\u201d stories that need care, attention, listening: in need, in fact, to be re-sewn.<\/p>\n
CouLture Migrante \u2013 this is the name of the tailoring atelier \u2013 does it with needle and thread, with machines running fast on offcuts and remnants to give shape to accessories entirely crafted by hand, unique because different from one another. And meanwhile, it reconstructs broken identities and restores their dignity through work.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][singolo_video_background videomp4url=”http:\/\/paolalentitest.spaziodemo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ZAINETTI-trilli.mp4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”content-row-width” css=”.vc_custom_1746768917156{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1779371846862{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}” el_class=”image-caption”]<\/p>\n
video \u00a9 Maurizio Natta<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1779442601986{margin-top: 0px !important;}” el_class=”inner-content”]Some of these stories intertwined with Paola Lenti company\u2019s that, since its inception, has set itself the goal of combining business and ethics and to pursue a virtuous model that would enhance quality but even before people. A model that would preserve the environment, reduce waste, and give value to what others would discard.<\/p>\n
This vision has a lot in common with that of the social atelier in Como, established in 2019 with the aim of promoting qualified vocational training for people at risk of social exclusion, such as migrants, and accompanying them on a path preparatory to professional integration, teaching them to produce high-quality tailoring products from recycled fabrics from the local chain of Como. Here is the common thread connecting the two realities: a thread that sews and gives new life to fabrics and stories.<\/p>\n
The collaboration with CouLture Migrante started in 2022 when Paola Lenti proposed to Fernando and Humberto Campana \u2013 the Brazilian designers famous for their creations crafted with poor or waste materials \u2013 to conceive together a collection that would exclusively use the processing remnants of the company. The desire was to give life to a project based on sustainability and respect for the environment but also ethics, inclusion, and, not last, social responsibility. During the design phases, the idea arose to entrust the crafting of the textile components of the collection \u2013 named Metamorfosi \u2013 to people in situations of marginality but with experience in sewing and tailoring. Hence, Paola Lenti looked for a local craftsmanship reality that would commit to the same values shared with the designers and with which to \u201cweave\u201d an unprecedented alliance. And the thread led to Como.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”115600″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”” el_class=”full-width-image”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1746983565341{margin-top: -20px !important;margin-bottom: 100px !important;}” el_class=”image-caption”]<\/p>\n
ph. \u00a9 Maurizio Natta<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”content-row-width” css=”.vc_custom_1746768917156{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][vc_custom_heading text=”When kindred sensibilities converge, as exemplified by Paola Lenti and CouLture Migrante, a synergy unfolds, painting new and unexpected landscapes.” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:34|text_align:center|color:%230FB9EF” google_fonts=”font_family:Josefin%20Slab%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1779442639910{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1779442732952{margin-top: 100px !important;}” el_class=”inner-content”]Victoria and Saly Samba, hailing from Ghana and Senegal respectively, have been warmly embraced by the company. Guided by skilled tailors and artisans nurtured in the workshops of Meda, they embarked on a six-month training journey, aspiring to achieve professional independence. During that period, they acquainted themselves with the intricacies of fabrics, yarns, and cords, unveiling their unforeseen possibilities. Through a simple crochet technique, the core of a cord, when opened up and \u201cruffled,\u201d transforms into a textile seaweed, imparting a unique character to the seating series envisioned by the Campana Brothers. A collection that also bears the imprint of diverse cultures, vibrant and overflowing with colours.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][vc_single_image image=”80839″ img_size=”780*1024″ add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1779442809672{margin-top: 100px !important;}” el_class=”inner-content”]Today, the collaboration with CouLture Migrante is enhanced by further meaning. Paola Lenti has asked the atelier to produce the \u201cBackpack CM\u201d \u2013 the flagship product of the atelier\u2019s accessories collection \u2013 exclusively using the materials of the company. Fabrics with different colours, weight, and thickness, originally aimed to upholster outdoor and indoor furnishings, have been transformed this way into unique accessories, not only because they are different from one another. Also, in this case, the \u201craw material\u201d consists of the remnants of previous processing, while the hands that shape the backpacks are those of the people that CouLture Migrante has welcomed, trained, and then employed in their own atelier.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][vc_single_image image=”80841″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” css=”” el_class=”full-width-image”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1746982872428{margin-top: -20px !important;margin-bottom: 100px !important;}” el_class=”image-caption”]<\/p>\n
ph. \u00a9 Maurizio Natta<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cWorking with remnants and surplus offcuts of fabrics, each different from one other, is an art,\u201d says Chiara Gismondi, responsible for the social tailoring atelier in Como. \u201cIt\u2019s very challenging, both at a creative and meaning level. The ambition is to become a best practice that is an example for other realities and to be able to create, along with beautiful sustainable products, a new social fabric.\u201d” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:34|text_align:center|color:%230FB9EF” google_fonts=”font_family:Josefin%20Slab%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1779442844278{margin-top: 150px !important;margin-bottom: 150px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”80843″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1779442873272{margin-top: 150px !important;margin-bottom: 100px !important;}” el_class=”inner-content”]The first backpacks tailored by CouLture Migrante will be gifted to architects, designers, and journalists of the sector on the occasion of an event that will take place in the flagship store Paola Lenti in Miami during the next edition of Art Basel Miami. Saly Samba and Victoria are giving the finishing touches to the pieces departing for Florida, while Chieck \u2013 called Z\u00e9 \u2013 from Gambia, employed by CouLture Migrante and now a true master in the tailoring art, makes the remnants slide quickly under the needle of the sewing machine, to a rhythm that resonates like music. Actually today, also life stories are being re-sewn: his own, Saly Samba\u2019s, employed part-time at Paola Lenti, and Victoria\u2019s, that will soon be employed in the tailoring department of a silk factory in Como. It is another circle that closes; or rather, it opens to generate shared value.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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