Gifts for G20 leaders: bracelets, shawls and "pins" chosen by Juliana Awada – 11/28/2018

Juliana Awada she put into practice her work as a fashion designer, in which she became a businesswoman and was suspended for her role as first lady. However, she led the selection of gifts for the presidents and prime ministers of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires.

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"The goal of promoting Argentina from gastronomy, tourism, products and culture was central to this choice," they said. Clarin of the G20 unit, coordinated by Hernán Lombardi.

Thus, the official gifts for the leaders and their companions this year will be austere, elegant and natural: Men's scarves and silver bracelets for women. In total, 38 of them were manufactured. And there will be a surprise: Argentine pins whose photos have not been shown.

Alpaca shawls / male: The shawls, of brown color, were created by the Association of spinners and weavers of vicuña "Belén, Cuna del Poncho". They measure 2 meters by 60 centimeters, have been hand knitted and woven in a Creole loom.

The Association of Spinners and Weavers of Bethlehem is a productive entrepreneurship made up of 22 people which is dedicated to the manufacture of fabrics with vicuna, alpaca, lama and sheep fibers, obtained by the process of shearing. The project was born more than ten years ago from the hand of a group of women from Catamarca over 50 years old. They specialize in making blankets, ponchos, scarves, ruanas, bow ties and handmade shawls.

Silver bracelet: The silver bracelet was developed by Ignacio Bárcena, a renowned Argentinean artist and jeweler, who proposed a "clean, discreet, elegant and timeless" bracelet. For a month, with his team of goldsmiths, he has developed a piece that represents the best of Argentinian silverware and will be the gift of the Argentine presidency to leaders or companions. In the process of ideation, the first lady Juliana Awada participated, with whom Bárcena maintained a dialogue.

Pins for leaders: The official pins of the chiefs were also developed by Ignacio Bárcena. Created in the form of a fan, they refer, on the one hand, to "all the issues dealt with by the G20" and, on the other hand, to the impulse of "Buenos Aires", place of the summit . The pin includes the year, part of the G20 logo and the word "Argentina". This is a sober and clean lapel pin that will carry the leaders and their companions during their visit to the country.