Economy Minister pledges funds to maintain Portugal Fashion | portuguese fashion
The National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (AN), organizer Portugal Fashion (PF), has already been received by the Minister of Economy and the Sea, António Costa Silva, after having requested an urgent audience to respond to the lack of funds to hold the event next year. . “These were optimistic perspectives”, advanced the director of the PF, Mónica Neto, in statements to journalists. Until the end of the year, adian, must open a new contest for the founding Portugal 2030.
This is what should finance the Invicta community event in the coming seasons, in a model similar to the Portugal 2020 competition that has always been financed or certainly started in 1995. “By the end of the year there will be an opening for community funds framework . Will open a new competition for SIACs [Sistema de Apoio a Acções Colectivas] which is the type of incentive system that, in some way, has supported Portugal Fashion in recent editions”, declared the official.
The candidacy still has to be approved, “according to the normal procedures”, which imply that “the PF will also be up to the constant challenge of showing some relevant capacity”. This evolution and change of concepts is already something that the event has been working on, Mónica Neto points out. For example, edition, the spaces go until Saturday, the city parades are on the day in this Porto, in emblematic, like the Bolhão Market or the Clérigos Walk.
Even if the application is not approved at the time of the next Portugal Fashion, scheduled for March 2023, recognizes the person in charge, after submission, the entity “may go ahead with some contractions”, because the value attributed is lower than what they were. accustomed in other years, “there are expectations that they may have”, “assuming less risk in relation to future actions”.
ANJE had requested a meeting with the Minister of Economy after being urgently warned, less than a month before the event, that the new framework would not come into force in time for the 51st edition of the PF. The matter, recalls Mónica Neto, “had been forwarded to state secretariats”. Following it was reported that the holding of a certain fair at risk were received this Thursday.
Before the pandemic, which put fashion events on hold or switched to digital, the PF’s impact on the country exceeded ten million in each edition and generated around 400 jobs. This week’s event is what ANJE calls a “commitment edition”, ensured by the organization of the event with the support of private funding and the city council.
These days, the PF is made with half the budget ─ in March it was 900 thousand euros and now it is 450 thousand. The cut, the number of data recorded in the event broadcast, which changed, and other details such as the registered mannequins. Funds aside, Mónica Neto recalled that the week aims to depend less and less on community support, through a greater focus on the professional side of the fashion system.
Until Saturday, the 15th, the fashion shows by the duo Marques’Almeida, Alexandra Moura, Diogo Miranda, Miguel Vieira, Luís Onofre, Susana Bettencourt are expected, not to mention the famous Alves/Gonçalves closing, as is tradition, right.