Ilaria Venturini Fendi is an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur.

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Following in the footstep of her mother

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, formerly Creative Director of the

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brand, she was very young when she started her career in fashion after graduating from

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. One of her first working experiences was with

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. Back in Rome she entered the family firm becoming Accessories Creative Director of the Fendissime young line and also Fendi Shoe Designer, a position she maintained after the company was sold to the French group

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. While still loving her work very much, after some time she started feeling uneasy at the idea that every collection and the hard work behind it was doomed to become old right after its presentation. In 2003 she therefore decided to leave the family firm to dedicate herself to nature and the environment, a passion inherited in childhood from her father.

Carmina Campus

She bought a country estate of about 430 acres in Northern Rome, I Casali del Pino, and while converting the farm to organic cultivation she became increasingly involved with environmental issues and creative reuse of wasted materials. Enlightened by this new awareness she created in 2006 her

sustainable fashion Sustainable fashion is a term describing efforts within the fashion industry to reduce its environmental impacts, protect workers producing garments and uphold animal welfare. Sustainability in fashion encompasses a wide range of factors, incl ...

and design brand Carmina Campus, that produces high-end bags, accessories and design objects with discarded materials and the manufacturing skills of Italian artisans. In 2009 she started a collaboration with the

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(ITC), a UN -

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agency that works in developing countries creating job opportunities in many industries. The program involved disadvantaged women's communities in Kenya and Uganda for the production of a special Carmina Campus bag line entirely made in Africa. The aim was to provide the workers with professional know-how in order to favor the creation of independent micro-entrepreneurs. She also collaborated with Socially MadeinItaly, an Italian non-profit organization that operates in Italian prisons, to support a joint rehabilitation program involving the production of a special Carmina Campus bag collection made in prison hubs that was first launched in February 2015. The project was certified by Italy's Ministry of Justice and initially involved four prison hubs that later became eleven. In December 2015 the project was presented in Palermo, Sicily, and then made available to the public in a store confiscated from

the Mafia "Mafia", as an informal or general term, is often used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the original Mafia in Sicily, to the Italian-American Mafia, or to other organized crime groups from Italy. The central ...

. She was among the supporters of The Circle, the non-profit organization created in 2012 by

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to promote and finance projects in favor of disadvantaged women and was among the co-founders of its spinoff, The Circle Italia.

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Carmina Campus

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