A Cultural Platform for Ethical and Artisanal Luxury
Paris Artisanal Week connects contemporary craftsmanship from Latin America with Europe's creative and institutional ecosystems through fashion, art, and dialogue.
Fashion Shows · Exhibitions · Conversations
Paris Artisanal Week promotes ethical, sustainable, and regenerative models by bringing together artisans, designers, artists, and cultural leaders in a space where heritage, innovation, and contemporary creation converge.
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Industry Partners
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Artisanal Projects
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Fashion, Authorial Design, Culture, and Arts Media
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Fashion Shows
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Speakers
Exhibitors
Producers, brands, and artisan artists from Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Spain, Argentina, and different parts of the world share their cosmovisions, techniques, and contemporary expressions.
Featured Brands
Carla Fernández
Through decades of collaboration with artisan communities across Mexico, Carla Fernández has developed a model in which creation, research, territory, and the transmission of knowledge converge into a single practice. Her legacy extends beyond fashion, offering a new way of understanding the cultural value of craftsmanship by recognizing artisans as authors, knowledge keepers, and agents of innovation.
Her participation in Paris Artisanal Week helps shape a narrative that celebrates artisanal excellence as a living heritage and as a universal language capable of fostering dialogue across cultures, disciplines, and generations.
Vision
Craftsmanship brings beauty and balance and reconnects us with healthier rhythms of life. It is a model of creation that restores the human relationship with time. For Paris Artisanal Week, true luxury today is that which cares for life — both human life and the life of the earth.
Maison de l'Amérique Latine
217 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris, France
Our event takes place at the historic Maison de l'Amérique Latine, one of the most emblematic venues in Paris for dialogue between Latin America and Europe. Within this unique setting, where diplomacy, culture, and contemporary creation meet, voices, knowledge, and artistic expressions of international significance converge. Surrounded by elegant gardens and heritage architecture, the Maison provides an exceptional framework for celebrating fashion, art, and contemporary craftsmanship, following in the footsteps of prestigious houses such as Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta, and Elie Saab, which have presented some of their creations there.
Sorbonne University – IEDES
Dialogues and Sessions
Paris Artisanal Week is the first international cultural platform that brings together craftsmanship, luxury, and fashion through a perspective of social and cultural sustainability.
In collaboration with the Sorbonne and the Institute for Economic and Social Development Studies (IEDES), these conversations bring together artisans, designers, researchers, and specialists over two days to reflect on the role of craftsmanship in addressing contemporary challenges through an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented approach.
Conversation Themes
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ETHICS OF MAKING
Craftsmanship as a human value, care for the process, and shared cultural responsibility.
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HANDS THAT WEAVE TERRITORY
Ethical trade, local regeneration, and the transmission of knowledge.
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ETHICAL LUXURY
Fair connections between the local and the global through cooperation and responsible markets.
A Space to Imagine New Models of Creation, Production, and Exchange
Paris Artisanal Week serves as a gateway to an international cultural and creative ecosystem that brings together public and private stakeholders committed to strengthening craftsmanship, ancestral heritage, and local territories.
- Artisan communities and cooperatives
- Designers and creative directors
- Cultural and academic institutions
- Ethical trade and cooperation platforms
Through this initiative, we seek to strengthen a new culture based on international cooperation, care for life, and sustainability.
Gala Limón, PAW Director
Categories
International Cooperation
From visibility to action, PAW creates culturally grounded economic opportunities, strengthening local capacities while preserving identity and heritage.
Developed alongside Sorbonne University and Euro-Latin American civil society organizations, with the support of the French luxury sector, the initiative seeks to strengthen international fair-trade networks for craftsmanship and foster exchanges in the transmission of knowledge and the safeguarding of heritage between France and Latin America.
