We are delighted to announce that Eden Diodati has been selected by sustainable luxury platform 1.618 Paris as one of 40 cross sector sustainable luxury brands in the World's premier sustainable luxury guide.
Showcasing the best in global sustainable luxury, 1.618 Paris collaborates with and promotes brands which have the World's best ethical models at their core. The stunning platform was launched in Paris on 3 April 2013.
This photograph was taken in Syria.
We hope and pray that at the end of every dark tunnel there is light.....
The wars of the World always bring untold suffering to the innocent.
Millions of women are every year subjected to the atrocity of sexual violence in conflict.
The leaders of the World have, at last, heard their voices.
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When Nelson Mandela left prison after twenty-seven years and became South Africa’s first democratically elected president, he called upon his old friend, Desmond Tutu, to chair The Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This commission was a series of hearings – some of them public – in which both victims and perpetrators gave testimony about their experiences and actions during apartheid.
At one of the hearings, a policeman, called van de Broek, told of how he and his fellow officers shot an eighteen-year-old youth, then burnt the body. Eight years later they went back, took the father and forced his wife to watch as he was incinerated. She was in court to hear this confession and was asked by the judge what she wanted. She said she wanted van de Broek to go to the place where they had buried her husband’s body and gather up the dust so that she could give him a decent burial. Van de Broek agreed.
She then added a further request. ‘Mr van de Broek took all my family away from me, and I still have a lot of love to give. Twice a month I would like for him to come to the ghetto and spend a day with me so that I can be a mother to him. And I would like Mr van de Broek to know that he is forgiven by God, and that I forgive him too. I would like to embrace him so he can know that my forgiveness is real.’
Spontaneously, some in the courtroom began singing ‘Amazing Grace’ as the elderly woman made her way to the witness stand. But van de Broek did not hear the hymn, he had fainted, overwhelmed.
Truth, love and mercy flowing together.
These little girls have the right to safety, freedom from harm, healthy childhoods and love. Their innocence to be protected so they can grow into strong healthy women.
They are showing support for a UN campaign to stop sexual violence against women in conflicts.
The unseen, devastating epidemic of systematic sexual violence against women, voiceless and already traumatised by war, and conflict.
It must stop. Now.
This is Elizabeth's story....
As Elizabeth and her captors arrived at the militia camp, she realized that dozens of other girls had also been kidnapped. "When we got there we were so many," she said. "We were taken into the bush, when a big man came and took me."
Life with the Mayi Mayi, an ethnic milita in Kenya, was a nightmare of almost continuous abuse. "All they did was come and 'take' us often. They used to tie up the women and tie their husbands to trees then take us [the girls]," the 17-year-old told IRIN." I stayed with them for so long and it didn't matter any more who took me."
Elizabeth's ordeal happened in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but it could well have been in Sierra Leone, Liberia or a variety of other countries. Wherever there is armed conflict, there are stories like hers, stories of rape, of trauma; stories of unimaginable horror, of girls and women who have been gang-raped, held indefinitely as sex-slaves, beaten, mutilated, killed. Sometimes the victims are in their 70s or 80s, sometimes they are younger women, or teenagers. Some are as young as six months old.
Source: IRIN - humanitarian news and analysis - a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
A study, published in June 2011 by the American Journal of Public Health, revealed that about 48 women are raped every hour in the Democratic Republic of Congo, totaling more than 1,100 women every day.
“It is more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern conflict.” Patrick Cammaert (2008, former Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo [MONUC])"
We are blessed by the beautiful and gifted Esperanza Spalding wearing Eden Diodati as she picks up two Grammys in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Livia Firth has been a tireless and phenomenal proponent of sustainable fashion.
Livia, sustainable fashion icon.....we salute you!
See Eden Diodati featured in Livia Firth's Eco Age.
Ah, this fair City! Full of beauty, eclecticism and design excellence.
A few pieces of selected press from London, with love.....
Eden Diodati had the honour of being invited to the BAFTA Los Angeles Awards Season Tea Party.
The annual Awards Season Tea Party reached new heights of glitz and glamor this year, with a capacity crowd of hollywood's biggest names filling the ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
The BAFTA Los Angeles Awards Season Tea Party has a long tradition of recognizing the very best filmmaking talent and is hugely popular with Nominees seeking a respite from the hectic and demanding Awards season.
This year, Ben Affleck, Hugh Jackman, Kathryn Bigelow, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field, Tim Burton, Marion Cotillard, Helena Bonham Carter, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jon Bon Jovi, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery, Julian Fellowes and a host of other peers were seen mingling in a room of brimming with BAFTA Members and Guests.
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LOS ANGELES – On Friday, January 11th, Cinema for Peace presented Academy Award-winning actor, filmmaker and founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, Ben Affleck, with its coveted Cinema for Peace Humanitarian Award at the 2013 Gala for Humanity at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Affleck was honored for his courageous efforts to raise awareness about the catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of Congo and his stand against the injustices experienced by the Congolese.
The stunning model and humanitarian activist, Noella Coursaris, founder of the Goerges Malaika Foundation, hosted the Cinema for Peace Gala wearing Eden Diodati.
The beautiful Thandie Newton and Noella. Thank you Thandie for your inspiring speech!
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At a Los Angeles film premiere, Twilight actress Judi Shekoni, looking stunning in Eden Diodati.
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The magificent, prolific and inimitable John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917).
Image: J W Waterhouse - Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
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The hands of a surgeon at work.
During the Biafra conflict in Nigeria, a group of doctors left to go into a war zone and into the unknown. To serve. To heal. That caused a ripple effect that now numbers over 25,000 health professionals, logistics experts and adminstrative staff strong.
The power of a decision.
Inspirational.
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Apart from what we say and hear, some languages are visually stunning. The craft of a sweeping line and form of a curve shape letters to enable communication, sounds that we hear as speech and dialects that we understand to represent culture .....beautiful.....yet the words are nothing without the meaning that resonates behind them......
Image Copyright: Andrew Zo
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Humanity.
There are 7 billion people on this planet. Sharing resources, life, joy and pain.
We all bleed, we all grieve, we all laugh, we all hope, we all cry.
We are all of value.
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Six years in conception and development, Eden Diodati is now poised to launch a new chapter in the story of luxury fashion. Blending the concept of luxury with compassion through the company's groundbreaking designs and philanthropic commitment, Eden Diodati produces unique garments and accessories that embody the natural female desire to reflect beauty, both inside and out.
