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here it is !! a blurb about colombia, peru, chile and argentina 💖 brasil will get its insta blurb once the shows are done ! i hope you like this

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Colombia

"I'm so excited. I've never played here on my own before." Harry said as he looked over the window of his private jet, you were on your flight to Colombia after spending an incredible week in Mexico where Harry had four amazing shows filled with love, music and moments he would never forget, you were beyond happy that Harry was making amazing memories in Latin America.

"It's going to be an amazing show, baby," you looked up from your phone and saw his excited little smile, you were previously texting some of your friends from Colombia about stuff to do and places to visit over there, you knew Harry was dying to explore and walk around before the show. "I have a list of places we should visit, and I made a reservation for dinner tonight, my friends say this restaurant is the best in the city."

"That sounds lovely, darling." He let out a yawn as he got comfortable, drifting off to sleep for the rest of the flight.

After an easy landing and check in at your hotel, you went strolling around, Harry clad in his signature blue adidas jacket and you were wearing matching comfortable clothes, after some nice dinner that was even accompanied by live salsa music that Harry absolutely loved and made sure to get it added to the Late Night Talking intro and a couple of shots of Aguardiente, you guys walked around the streets of Bogota, and even tho Harry's mask was covering his lips, his eyes gave away the happiness he was feeling.

He felt at home.

"You know, I feel like you've been glowing lately," you said after a few moments of comfortable silence, walking hand in hand "You've been glowing ever since the Guadalajara show" you added, turning your head to look at him.

"I thought that only happened during pregnancy, right?" Harry asked, looking down at you.

"You glow when you're happy, baby." you smiled up at him, melting at the sight of his eyes getting even softer, he let go of your hand to wrap his arm around your shoulders and kiss the crown of your head through his mask.

"I'm very, very happy. That's for sure"

//

Peru

“I’d like to begin with a massive massive thank you to you for such a warm welcome back to Peru, I remember being here in 2014 and I remember how incredible you were, and we’ve barely begun the show and you’re just as incredible tonight.” Harry said into the mic as he walked down the catwalk, you were fondly watching by the stage wings, absolutely enamored by the crowd and how beautiful Harry looked in his pink heart top,

"The last time I was here I went on a little hike with my girlfriend, who's here tonight by the way, give it up for my YN!" the screams grew louder at the mention of your name, and it didn't fail to warm your heart "We went to Machu Picchu last time, beautiful landscape, it was like watching my history books come to life," he continued, "However, I made the terrible decision to wear tight skinny jeans that day, I ended up with a nasty fabric burn on my bum," you couldn't help but laugh as you remembered how much of a cry baby Harry was when we had his little incident "Yeah, I was a naive 20 year old boy who didn't listen to his girlfriend, who persistently told him to wear more adequate clothes for the occasion." Harry turned his head towards you and sent you a wink, that didn't fail to make you blush like you were those 20 year old kids again.

"Anyway! Who's ready for more music? Mas musica Peru!" the lights went down and everyone got ready to sing and dance again, the smile on Harry's face growing bigger and his heart filled with happiness to be playing for another latin american crowd.

//

Chile

"Come here. I miss you"

"And I would also love to see you in that black bathing suit x"

You laughed as you read the texts Harry sent, you were currently in Santiago, Chile, and the weather was so nice the entire crew decided to spend the day by the pool.

You made your way towards the private pool area the resort designated for you, and once you spotted your boyfriend your mouth couldn't help but water a bit.

He was in his shirtless and black swimming trucks glory, his tattoos in full display and his skin glowing, arms open for you to crawl in.

"Finally, I've missed you" he said as you laid down next to him on the lounge chair he was resting, using his arm as a pillow.

"Don't be dramatic now, I was just gone for like 30 minutes" you turned your body sideways to look at his eyes, the sparkle on them hasn't left since you arrived to Colombia.

"Still too long," he placed your hand on your bare back and caressed it softly, causing goosebumps to appear on your skin, "I don't think I'll ever be over yesterday." he said making your move to nuzzle your face on his chest, his hand not leaving your back.

"It was a great show lovie, and tomorrow will be just as good" you placed a chaste kiss on his chest, and rested your hand there.

"I mean yeah, but i was talking about the amazing blowj-" you swatted his chest before he could continue, "Harry! Your entire tour crew is around, have some class" you said, making him laugh hysterically and kiss the crown of your head multiple times.

"Baby, they know I'm not a virgin, don't be so shy now" he gave you a teasing smirk that made you roll your eyes with affection before standing up.

"I swear you're like a teenager sometimes, I'm hopping in the water, bye!"

//

Argentina

"Holy shit! Look at how packed that pit is already" Harry said as he got a peek of the stadium, it was still early but fans were already inside and waiting for him.

"You know how much your fans here love you, baby. Tonight's show is going to be crazy" you rested your chin on his shoulder, looking at the crowd with him.

"It's going to be one of the best, I can't fucking wait" excitement was evident on his voice and you couldn't help but melt a bit, the man you love was happy and that made you the happiest as well.

"They scored!" Anthony Pham's voice made you turn your heads, a bunch of the crew members were watching the Argentina vs Australia match on a small tv, and the screams from the crowd just confirmed that their country had just scored.

"Wait, put the match on the big screens, let's watch it together with the crowd" Harry said and guys from the tech crew quickly put the match on the stadium screens, making fans grow excited.

By the end of the match and by a close call, Argentina won and the crowd erupted in cheers and screams, the entire staff celebrating too and hyping the crowd.

"Go celebrate with them baby! Go on!" you urged Harry to go on stage, "You know what? Fuck it!" and he ran to the stage and hyped the crowd, celebrating the victory with them

Argentina gave him one of his best tour memories already and the shows were still yet to happen.

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On the morning of June 12, 2022, Ángela Astudillo, then a law student in her mid-20s, grabbed her water bottle and hopped into her red Nissan Juke. The co-founder of Dress Desert, or Desierto Vestido, a textile recycling advocacy nonprofit, and the daughter of tree farmers, Astudillo lives in a gated apartment complex in Alto Hospicio, a dusty city at the edge of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, with her husband, daughter, bunny, and three aquatic turtles.

Exiting the compound, Astudillo pinched the wheel, pulled over next to a car on the side of the road, and greeted Bárbara Pino, a fashion professor, and three of her students, who were waiting inside.

They headed toward a mountain of sand known as El Paso de la Mula. Less than a mile from her home, squinting into the distance, Astudillo saw a thread of smoke rising from its direction. With her in the lead, the two vehicles caravanned toward the dune, the site of the second-largest clothes pile in the world.

As they got closer to El Paso de La Mula, the thin trail of smoke had expanded into a huge black cloud. Astudillo stopped the car and texted the academics behind her.

It looks like it’s on fire. Hopefully, it’s not there. :( :( :(

She then dialed them directly and asked, “Do you still want to go?”

Pino, director of Santiago’s Fashion System Observatory at Universidad Diego Portales, had planned this trip for months. Astudillo had volunteered to be their guide. The mound of discarded fabric in the middle of the Atacama weighed an estimated 11,000 to 59,000 tons, equivalent to one or two times the Brooklyn Bridge.

By the time the team reached the gates of El Paso de la Mula, more than half of the clothes pile was on fire. Smoke obscured everything, hanging like an opaque black curtain. Municipal authorities turned the group away, forbidding them to stay on the premises. But Astudillo knew the landscape, so she directed the team to the dune’s far side, where access was still unimpeded.

There, the students surveyed the inferno. It was “like a war,” Pino said. She felt waves of heat. Black smoke unspooled from the burning clothes. The air was dense and hard to breathe. Smoke coated the back of their throats and clogged their nostrils with the acrid smell of melting plastic. They covered their faces, trying not to breathe it in. Then the group heard a series of loud pops as mini explosions burst from within the vast expanse of burning garments.

Despite the danger, Pino and her students rummaged, pulling out specimens to examine from among unburned portions of the pile. On prior visits to the clothes dump, Astudillo had uncovered clothing produced by the world’s most well-known brands: Nautica, Adidas, Wrangler, Old Navy, H&M, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Forever 21, Zara, Banana Republic. Store tags still dangled from many of her findings. The clothes had come to the Atacama from Europe, the United States, Korea, and Japan. Now, as Astudillo began taking pictures and uploading them to Instagram, Pino wandered the mound, horrified and fascinated by the grotesque volume and variety of apparel: ski jackets, ball gowns, bathing suits. She plucked out a rhinestone-encrusted platform stiletto in perfect condition. She crouched to search for its match, but the wind was getting stronger. If it shifted, the team realized, they’d be trapped in the spreading fire.

For 14 years, no rain has fallen in Alto Hospicio or the surrounding Atacama Desert region. Those dry conditions, coupled with the nonbiodegradable, predominantly synthetic, petroleum-derived fibers that modern clothes are made with, meant that the pile never shrank. Instead, for more than two decades, it grew — metastasized — with every discarded, imported item that was added.

In 2021, six months prior to the fire, a photographer from Agence France Presse, Martín Bernetti, captured a bird’s-eye image of this sprawling mound of apparel, essentially an oil slick, strewn across the edge of the Atacama desert.

The aerial image was picked up by news outlets across the globe, from the front page of the New York Postto the BBC, and continues to circulate today. But the mountain of clothes depicted by that 2021 drone photo is utterly gone. As Astudillo, Pino, and the three students witnessed, and unwittingly tasted: The blaze tore through the pile, throwing black plumes of toxic ash into the air.

The town of Alto Hospicio sits on a cliff above the Pacific Ocean, a bedroom community for the seaside vacation city of Iquique below. Imagine if Atlantic City in New Jersey were simultaneously hemmed in and backed by a high Nevada plateau, and if the two locales were connected by a two-lane switchback highway.

Each day in Iquique’s port, giant cranes pluck containers full of discarded clothing from the decks of ships and deposit them onto flatbed trucks. No one really knows exactly how much clothing passes through the port every year; estimates range from 60,000 to 44 million tons. Next, they head to the nearby Free Trade Zone, known locally as “Zofri,” where trailers back into the warehouses of 52 used-clothes importers and forklift operators transfer sealed bales of clothing, or fardos, inside.

Chile is the biggest importer of secondhand clothing in South America, and between 2020 and 2021 it was the fastest-growing importer of used clothing in the world. The port of Iquique is an established tax-free zone, incentivizing this booming industry of castaway textiles.

From Zofri, bales of clothing are sold, uninspected, to merchants betting that at least some of the items inside are sales-worthy. “When you buy, you are buying with your eyes closed,” one former merchant said. Sometimes 80 percent of the garments in a bale are usable. Sometimes the opposite is true. Because bales are so cheap, however, most merchants need only sell 40 percent to turn a profit.

According to the global environmental advocacy group Ekō (formerly known as SumofUS), an estimated 85 percent of the used clothing imported into Iquique remains unsold. Chilean federal law states it’s illegal to dispose of textiles.

Considered Iquique’s backyard, Alto Hospicio is one of the poorest cities in Chile, widely known as a place to abandon pets and dump trash. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the small desert town is where more than a dozen teenage girls mysteriously vanished, until their apprehended killer led authorities to bodies buried in desert graves.

In 2001, Manuela Medina*, a former gardener, saw an opportunity in Iquique’s growing textile abundance. Relocating to Alto Hospicio, she established an unauthorized compound on government lands at the base of El Paso de la Mula, the huge sand dune at the far side of an unregulated shantytown. Every few days, she hired a fletero — a driver with a jalopy — to travel the switchback roads, out of the brown dunes of Alto Hospicio, to arrive in the colorful oceanside city of Iquique, which sits a thousand miles north of the country’s capital, Santiago.

Near the dock where cranes unload massive container ships, inside Iquique’s free trade zone, Medina ventured into the contiguous warehouses, asking secondhand clothing importers, “Do you have any garbage?”

Back at her compound, Medina unloaded her wares in piles on the ground where she had the luxury of storing them indefinitely — the Atacama Desert is one of the driest places on Earth, meaning items don’t undergo normal degradation from elements like rain. Here, Medina sold her piles to merchants and others for $10 each.

As more and more bales of ropa americana, or secondhand clothes, arrived in Iquique, the clothes flooded importers’ warehouses and overflowed vendors’ stalls in open air markets, including La Quebradilla — one of the largest open air markets in South America, located just a few miles from Medina’s unauthorized compound.

Soon,importers and secondhand merchants began to deliver surplus used clothes directly to Medina. Fed by daily truck deliveries, and then by multiple daily tractor trailer load deliveries, Medina’s pile grew.

By 2020, Medina’s gargantuan desert dump had become an open secret in Chile, stretching across dozens of acres. Others followed her model, creating mini-dumps across the desert and along roadsides, but Medina’s pile remained the largest.

On March 29, 2022, Paulin Silva, an environmental lawyer, stood before the Primer Tribunal Ambiental de Antofagasta, a regional tribunal in northern Chile that specializes in resolving environmental issues within its jurisdiction. She was presenting a lawsuit, brought on behalf of herself as a resident of Iquique, against the municipality and the federal Chilean government for their inaction over the sprawling, unregulated clothes dumps. For her submission of evidence, she asked the tribunal to join her in touring the mound of clothing.

For weeks, her informal team of supporters (a geographer, her sister, and her brother-in-law) had been documenting the problem, joking among themselves, “In which dump are we going to party tonight?”

Since obtaining her law degree, Silva has prosecuted a handful of environmental cases, but this one was personal, and she felt empowered to tackle it: “I have the education; I am a lawyer; I can do something,” she said. She’d grown up in northern Chile, a pencil thin country bordered by the Pacific Ocean. Her father is from Alto Hospicio and her mother is from Iquique. At 35, she’s several years older than Astudillo, the co-founder of the nonprofit Dress Desert, whom Silva asked to be a witness for the case. When Silva was a child, she observed people dumping clothes everywhere — the streets, yards, and city squares. Because this was the only place she knew for so much of her life, she thought, “It’s normal for people to live with … garbage accumulated around them.”

This local “clothes-blindness” was documented by Astudillo’s colleague, Bastián Barria, an engineering student and her co-founder of Dress Desert. In November 2020, he and others conducted a survey to ascertain local attitudes regarding the clothing waste. Of the almost 400 people in Alto Hospicio he surveyed, representing less than 1 percent of the town’s population, more than half did not think there was any issue.

When Silva was 18, she moved a thousand miles south, to Valparaiso in central Chile, to study law and that was where she remained until the pandemic, when she returned home. That’s when she realized the dump situation had worsened. Exponentially.

During the decades between Silva’s girlhood and today, clothing production worldwide doubled, while utilization — the number of times an item of clothing is worn before it is thrown away — declined by 36 percent. Countries like Chile, Haiti, and Uganda became depositories for fast fashion discards. In 2021 alone, Chile imported more than 700,000 tons of new and used clothing — the weight equivalent of 70 Eiffel Towers.

“Even if we stopped clothing production throughout the world tonight,” said Francisca Gajardo, an Iquique-born fashion designer, “we still have more garments than we need or that the Earth can safely hold. It won’t go away nicely, and we’re not stopping today.”

Nine days after the giant fires, around 4 p.m., Silva was having a light meal, the Chilean equivalent of afternoon tea known as once (pronounced “on-say”), with her family in northern Chile. A few days prior, the Primer Tribunal Ambiental de Antofagasta had informed her it was ready to view her case evidence by touring the clothes pile in person. Silva took out her phone to share the good news on Instagram with Desierto Vestido, but before she could, she saw the images of the burning clothes Desierto Vestido had just uploaded and shared.

Silva sprang from her chair to process what was happening to the evidence in her case just a few miles away. She suspected why the court had been willing to view the landfill: “Because obviously the matter was burned,” she told Grist.

While no official cause of the fires has ever been reported, local residents claim it began late on Saturday night or in the early hours of Sunday. Days later, toxic air still clung to the area. Astudillo, who visited the site regularly, described the pile as “volcanic” — with clothes smoldering under the sand, venting smoke full of textile chemicals from synthetic materials. She warned, “You can’t be outside for long.”

In the days following the fire, on June 22, instead of leading the tour of the prosecutorial evidence, Silva filed a statement to the Primer Tribunal Ambiental de Antofagasta: “With sadness and shame I inform you that 11,000 tons of clothes in the textile dump were burned.”

Although Paulin provided the court with Dress Desert’s smartphone video recordings of the clothes in flames, the defense argued that the Instagram account where they’d posted the videos could not be verified and confirmed. Lacking a certifiable timestamp, the films were inadmissible.

One year later, in August 2023, the Primer Tribunal Ambiental de Antofagasta called a trial hearing so that all parties involved in the case — the Consejo de Defensa del Estado, the body that judicially represents the state in Chile, the municipality of Alto Hospicio, and Silva — could present evidence.

During the hearing, the Mayor at Alto Hospicio, Patricio Ferreira, said that one of his priorities is to “transform this problem into an opportunity to generate employment.” He alluded to discussions he had with European businessmen to explore initiatives related to recycling.

Silva got people to testify in her favor, activists and academics who have given statements to different media outlets about the environmental problem generated by the textile landfill in the Chilean desert. But on the day of the hearing, none of them arrived.

“At the end of the day, in practice, I am alone in this action,” she said.

Chile’s government recently voted to adopt recycling measures that make certain producers accountable for their waste. Known as the extended producer responsibility law, or REP using its Spanish acronym, the legislation passed in 2016 and took effect in January 2023. Currently, Chilean companies that make tires and packaging (such as bags, plastics, paper or cardboard, cans and glass) must comply.

Eventually, according to the Ministry of the Environment, Chile intends to incorporate clothing and textiles as a priority product into the REP law.

However, in the case of clothes, many describe the REP as a “paper solution” that lacks tangible enforcement, said Pino, from the Universidad Diego Portales.

In parallel, the Ministry of the Environment is developing a circular economy strategy for textile waste. Unlike the REP, the agency crafts public policy for the public and private sectors to prevent overproduction.

The ministry has been holding workshops and conversations to collect input from stakeholders, including academics, business executives, retailers and nonprofit leaders. It is also tabulating the results of a preliminary survey on consumer clothes-buying habits. The details of this circular economy strategy is expected to be published in March this year.

At the minister’s invitation, Pino has shared her fashion expertise — both in the markets and in the desert — with the group. “These two things are wonderful initiatives,” she said about both efforts, but she lamented that they fail to address the issue of used clothes.

A decade ago, when the REP was first being discussed, Denisse Morán, president of the Tarapacá Recyclers and the head of ServiREC, a recycling cooperative that operates within Iquique’s free trade zone, sought out her local representative to request that the law apply to both clothing producers and clothing importers.

“Oh, because you are from Iquique?” she recalled him asking her.

“Not only because I am from Iquique,” she replied, “but because we all wear clothes.”

For years, many residents in Alto Hospicio saw the piles of textiles as more of an opportunity than an eyesore or environmental threat, something that supported the local economy.

When Jazmín Yañez arrived in town from southern Chile in 2018 almost penniless and on the brink of homelessness, for example, someone gave her a few cast-off garments and household garbage — from towels, kitchen implements to furniture — to sell. Ever since, Yañez, now 28, has waged a zealous campaign to salvage, fix, and reutilize all “waste” materials. She operates an informal store from the kitchen of her house called Stop Recicla: “Your trash is my treasure,” where she sells, exchanges, and gifts items such as rugs, used clothing, school supplies, costumes, and electronics to impoverished mothers, like she once was.

It’s this trash/treasure duality that kept Astudillo and other locals from viewing the region’s booming used clothing trade as a problem. But six months before the fires, in January 2022, Nathalia Tavolieri, a Brazilian journalist, invited Astudillo to El Paso de La Mula, where she encountered Manuela Medina’s mountain for the first time.

Astudillo had seen numerous clothing dumps strewn and mounded throughout the desert, but nothing as big as this immense tangle of blouses and pants. “It was terrible,” she said, weeping as she recalled her first visit. “Maybe if I had been older, maybe I could have done more things [to stop this from happening].”

The experience galvanized her. She had already co-founded her nonprofit Dress Desert, or Desierto Vestido, two years before, to raise awareness and creatively respond to the country’s burgeoning waste clothing issue. As part of the project’s efforts, she and 20 other members host workshops and conversations. They upcycle castaway materials into new garments and craft household items. Seeing the vastness of Medina’s clothing pile, Astudillo stepped up her resolve, because “many people don’t see — or don’t want to see.”

“It was very, very hard,” she said, “to know that we live in a place that is so polluted and damaged by everyone’s waste.” Several months later, Astudillo brought Gajardo, the clothes designer and a fellow Iquiquean, to the dump, and gained an ally in her efforts. Despite growing up and shopping at the region’s numerous outdoor secondhand clothes markets, Gajardo was appalled by the scope of the waste. She developed rashes from rummaging among the fabrics.

“The fact that we have a desert, the fact that there’s a place to receive this, doesn’t mean that the place has to become the dump of the world,” she said. Since then, Gajardo’s conviction to never design clothes from virgin materials has deepened. Additionally, through her brand You Are the New Generation, she offers workshops in reusing garments, and visited Kansas City, Missouri, last year through the U.S. State Department’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative to teach people to make new clothes by harvesting old ones.

Other entrepreneurs have attempted to turn the clothes problem into revenue, but have faced a series of setbacks.

Franklin Zepeda is a celebrated Chilean entrepreneur who toured Europe’s textile recycling plants before returning to the region in 2013 to establish Ecofibre, now known as Procitex. (Its name is an acronym meaning Proceso Circular en Textil in Spanish).

With seed funding from CORFO, the Chilean economic development agency, and later from private capital, Zepeda was able to route textiles imported into Iquique to his plant, where they were disassembled, shredded, doused with flame retardant, and transformed into insulation panels. Zepeda got praise for this work in several major international news outlets, but he shuttered his plant in Alto Hospicio in 2021 because of unfavorable economics, including the taxes on shipping the insulation panels to other regions of the country.

Dario Blanco, manager of the ZOFRI User Association AG (AUZ), a trade association that brings together businessmen from the Iquique free zone, believes that the solution to the region’s problem of discarded clothing is out there — it will just take the right company and policies. And there are plenty of entrepreneurs, fashion designers, and environmentalists working on the issue of textile waste, both in Chile and internationally.

As Bloomberg reported in May,New York, California, Sweden, and the Netherlands are developing legislation similar to Chile’s extended producer responsibility law that went into effect this year, mandating that the fashion industry fund recycling programs via tariffs calibrated to the quantity of garments produced.

In order to help New York City uphold its existing law limiting or forbidding textiles in the waste stream, FabScrap, a nonprofit founded in 2016 by a former New York Department of Sanitation worker, receives 7,000 pounds of pre-consumer textile waste each week. Sorted by volunteers, the nonsynthetic scrap items are sent to a New Jersey facility that shreds the material, producing “shoddy,” a stuffing used to fill punching bags, sofas, and soft toys.

A Czech company called RETEX has been attempting to bring its fabric-macerating technology to Alto Hospicio. Blanco says that in exchange for securing a contract with Chile, the company promised to hire local workers. But, Blanco admitted, negotiations like these have fallen through in the past. For example, he said, a Spain-based company, Egreen, planned to open a fabric-waste processing plant, but the deal was scrapped late last year.

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The governor’s sustainability adviser at the Regional Government of Tarapaca, Pablo Zambra, recently formed a 25-member committee that includes stakeholders such as Astudillo and Barria from Dress Desert and Morán, the president of the Tarapacá Recyclers, to publicize economic incentives for circular economy initiatives. Collectively, they hope RETEX will succeed in doing what Zepeda’s company failed to do: turn a profit. As of this writing, no importers are involved.

Meanwhile, every day, container ships continue to offload more cargo.

In the fall of 2022, Alto Hospicio’s mayor, Ferreira, acknowledged the unsolved problem but blamed clothing manufacturers, citing a “lack of global awareness of ethical responsibility.”

“Our land has been sacrificed,” he said.

Pino agrees that the fashion industry and its consumers are culpable. “We have to worry about the complete cycle: before, during, and after our clothes,” she wrote in an editorial published in 2021.

She believes a more comprehensive solution is necessary, including regulating the entry of textile materials to Chile, educating consumers about prolonging garments’ lives, promoting Chile’s homegrown fashion industry, and supporting research to design new uses for fabric waste.

Ecocitex, founded in 2020 by engineer Rosario Hevia in Santiago, has sprung up as another Chilean company addressing a surfeit of garments.

Ecocitex operates in a manner contrary to the country’s organized and informal secondhand clothes markets. It invites people to recyclehigh-quality clothing or pay$1.50 per kilogram to leave poor quality clothing and walk away empty-handed.

During the pandemic, Andrea Espinoza Pérez, a civil industrial engineer at the University of Santiago, initiated a study on the ecological impacts of projects like Ecocitex. She wanted to know: Did factory-processed, used clothing produce fewer emissions than the original clothing manufacturing process? With data provided by Ecocitex’s founder Hevia, scientists determined that the clothes deconstruction processis effective because it keeps waste clothes out of landfills, and it replaces the demand for virgin materials. However, the study found that Ecocitex’s procedure is highly energy-intensive — using about 73 percent of the energy required to produce the same product from raw materials.

Meanwhile, neither Zepeda’s Procitex nor Hevia’s Ecocitex in Chile, nor Fabscrap’s efforts in New York and Philadelphia, have matched the direct profitability of Medina’s now-defunct business. (Medina has started a new business storing tires.) In fact, all have relied heavily on a variety of underwriting measures, including subsidies, nonprofit funding, subscriptions, or volunteer labor to generate their products.

In recent years, Zepeda has earned his living as an employee of Chile’s largest retailer, CENCOSUD. He collects surplus clothes donated by customers, and produces insulation panels for buildings that are sold by the same retailer.

As for Ecocitex, in June, the business caught fire and the building was destroyed. The cause is still under investigation. Undeterred, Hevia has launched a campaign to rebuild. Meanwhile, she is raising funds by selling blankets made from recycled fibers to a mining company.

By last January, the height of the Chilean summer, the gigantic, unsightly clothes dump at El Paso de la Mula, the one Agence France Presse had shown the world, was nowhere to be found.

All that remained was a smattering of ashes and the tread marks of bulldozers. Here and there, across Medina’s unofficial backyard, small piles of garments peeked out of the sand dunes. But according to municipal officials, dumping and burning continues. Rey, an indigent man who lives by the side of a desert road in a blue and yellow tent emblazoned with “National Geographic,” attests that he and others accept money from nonprofit refuse-disposal contractors or freelance truckers in exchange for setting fires to whatever waste is discharged from a truck. This way, the trucker can keep more of his hauling profits, which would otherwise be whittled down by the official dump fees.

Astudillo says that beyond the limits of Manuela’s dune, there are as many as 200 micro-garbage dumps, and consequently, miles and miles of ashes in the desert — not just scattered over the ground, but also in the air. She told Grist in late December that this is an everyday thing. “You go out to buy bread and you smell the burning smell. You smell the materials that make up the clothes: oil and plastic. After 5 in the afternoon, I no longer let my 7-year-old daughter leave the apartment, and I close the windows to prevent smoke from coming in.” She also confirmed the abandoning of clothes continues: “They throw it away, they burn it immediately.”

On December 12, the Primer Tribunal Ambiental de Antofagasta issued its final ruling in the case with Silva, commissioning a unit of experts to carry out an on-site report on the accumulation of textile waste in different areas of Alto Hospicio, and to propose a solution to the accumulation of waste.

The municipality of Alto Hospicio, which claims it does not have the workforce to adequately address the problem, has also installed nearly 100 cameras along the main roads as a means of tracking polluters, and has begun doling out fines as high as $350 for illegal dumping. So far, trucks have been apprehended transporting domestic and industrial garbage, as well as bulky items such as mattresses, washing machines, and furniture.

Drone footage recorded by Cheng Hwa, one of Pino’s students, the day of the June 2022 fires captures the municipality fighting what was in essence an oil fire. Hwa, who grew up in Iquique and now works in tech for the hospitality industry, had long been aware of the desert dumps but didn’t comprehend the magnitude until he witnessed them at close range.

He’s haunted by what his drone footage made visible. “How the desert of sand starts to turn into a desert of clothes,” he said. “It has no limit; there is no closure … Clothes begin to appear on the ground until the horizon is completely covered.”

In Iquique, he often glances up toward the high plateau of Alto Hospicio. “You can’t see the dump, but [you can see] the column of smoke on days that [clothes] burn. That cloud of smoke lets you know … It makes [the issue] visible on a day-to-day basis.”

Thirty miles south of Iquique, toward the city’s main airport, on her family’s farm, Astudillo and her parents drop pieces of used clothing on the ground, but in a purposeful way. Over the past 20 years, Astudillo’s father has experimented with growing trees in the infertile, saline soils. Many of his efforts failed until he began using certain fabrics to mulch his trees. This improves the quality of the soil, enabling it to retain moisture. For the past year, Astudillo has been working with one of the Zofri importers, who asked to remain anonymous. She consults with his staff about the clothing bales and recommends ways of sorting the material into specific categories based on fiber content, some of which she collects personally. Those items — a pair of cotton shorts, a T-shirt, a blouse — become mulch for a pine and eucalyptus forest rising in the desert.

Recently, as Astudillo was leaving the farm, she stashed a few perennials in her truck and drove them to Manuela’s compound in Paso de La Mula. Just beyond Medina’s courtyard, where sky- blackening fires had once burned, Astudillo troweled a small hole for the plants. As she dug, she dislodged several odd socks and a faded blue sweatshirt — discarded clothes that had survived the fires, but were buried by bulldozers.

Astudillo filled the hole, amending the desert sand with compost and garden soil. “For me it’s like a Band-Aid for a wound that is so big in that place,” she said. Then she tucked in cardinal flowers — a native plant whose petals resemble shooting flames.

Editor’s note: During visits to her compound in Alto Hospicio, Manuela, the owner of the secondhand clothing dump, told Grist reporters her name was Manuela Medina. However, other outlets have used the surname Olivos. Her legal name is Manuela de Los Angeles Medina Olivos.

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Why it's important for Peru's youth to have a Skam remake

Disclaimer: This is an informal essay. I'm not basing any of this on scientific studies, but in my own and other's personal experiences and general knowledge as Peruvian teenagers.

Being a Peruvian teenager is hard, as in every other country in the world. There's few to no representation of the LGBT+ Community, and the Feminism is so criticized and forced on screen that true attempts to make it work are drowned by TV companies who just want to achieve a social agenda that will get them more viewers. We have grown up in a society where, thought it's true that working women are everywhere, a lot of them still think that their children have to ask the father for permission. The political crisis is bigger than ever, with a now non-existent Congress because it was mostly conformed by the opposition political party and didn't want to approve a law that would assure gender approach and sexual education on public and private schools (and that's only the peak of the iceberg). Religion has a great deal to do with that: it's influence is so big here that people can’t get proper education on important matters, such as sexuality, gender equality, civilism and social science.

However, youth is rising. When the Congress tried to approve a law that meant superior institutes students would work for free for almost three years, the march that prevented it was huge and unstoppable. When the most shameful judicial scandal of our history was unveiled, we young people were on the streets, demanding a reorganization of the National Court. Marches and protests are an essential and constantly present event on our daily lives now, even if not all of us participate in them. Chile and Bolivia - not to mention Venezuela - have bigger and and more notorious issues, but that doesn’t make our country invisible. You will never hear a single Peruvian saying that they’re proud of their country because of its Government. We all talk about our delicious food (‘Best culinary destiny of the world!’) and our breathtaking touristic places (Peru: the world’s catalog!’). We always complain about politics and society, thought. Peru is a racist, misogynist, homophobic country who says is inclusive and loves its culture, but has so much centralization that most people don’t know and don’t care about what’s happening outside the capital, Lima. We scream that we’re one of the most biodiverse countries on earth, but not that we're also the least ranked country in Latin America regarding education. In fewer words, were hypocrites.

Now imagine you’ve grown up in this environment: nationalism and occidentalization is everywhere, you say you’re proud of your country because that’s what your family taught you, and, suddenly, you’re thrown into reality. Peru is beautiful, but so wasted that you notice it’s all an act. Mining and external private investments represent the highest economic income, but that money is not well used and the contamination is killing children of blood and lungs diseases. Education in public primary and secondary schools is a joke. There’s a lot of good public colleges, but they’re so inside politics that corruption has rotten their roots and young people do whatever they can to attend private colleges instead.   We all wish to get out of this hellhole of a country, and our parents want us to - it's the least we can do, because Peru has no remedy. We're a third world, underdeveloped country, and that's never going to change because people is ignorant and do nothing to invest themselves into politics or society issues. It's sad, and frustrating, so you just want to finish studying, get a job and then fly out of here.

Daily life is another matter. Middle class is the biggest population here, with poverty close at 20 percent or something like that. That means some of us can afford food and some vanities, but not in excess. Supermarkets exist, but markets more common, often visited by middle-low class house wifes who only go to Metro and Plaza Vea - famous supermarkets chains here - when they want to show off or have additional income. Teenagers are so surrounded by American culture and European expectations that save money to shop on the mall and drink Starbucks. Believe me when I say those things are expensive here, because they are. We all want the most cliché stuff you can imagine: Adidas clothes, Converse shoes, Ariana Grande songs and Corona beers. I know that's a lot of generalization, but that's our perception of American and European culture: you're advanced, sophisticated and beautiful. Indigenous people leave their customs and traditions because they wish to be accepted by us, wanna-be's. We teach them to speak Spanish and then English, to dress 'properly' with t-shirts and pants, to not paint their faces and vanish their accent as much as possible. Teenagers are the firsts to fall for all that bullshit, because we think it will make us fit into society seamlessly.

Now, don't get me wrong. We have also learned to respect, but all the unconscious racists and homophobic comments are said too many times as joke to state that we've changed. As I mentioned before, education does anything for this, and a lot of families are very closed-minded. We're raised to believe in heteronormativity and white supremacy as if they were natural laws. Many of us are short, dark-skinned and dark-eyed, so every time we see a tall, blond and blue-eyed person we are awed and have this desire to be like them - they are more accepted, you know, cooler. Our indigenous heritage is something shameful, so that's why we say we're 'half-bloods': yes, we descend from the Incas, but also from Spanish conquerors, so it's all fine. Teenagers dance to reggaeton and pop, but almost none of them to huayno or saya, typical and amazing Peruvian dances. We value our culture, but distance ourselves from it. This new and modern generation is meant to be global, so we don't have to pay attention to them. We drink and smoke, we party and talk about Netflix shows. See? We're like you!

I don't know if my goal of making every person who reads this understand Peruvian context was accomplished. Nowadays, all TV is filled with the same Mexican Telenovelas copies, long, dramatic and unrealistic series that exaggerate society, and trash reality shows that are meant to give us pointless and cheap entertainment. All our pop culture (like going to a minimarket called Tambo and going home on microbuses) is forgotten, avoided, because they'll show the neglected streets, dirty sidewalks and all the other stuff that would put in evidence that we're not as pretty or exotic as the rest of the world thinks. A gay couple who dares to walk and kiss in public is told to leave that place. Sexual assault is diminished and not punished. Islam is almost non-existent and very judged. We need Skam because young people need the representation that awesome show would give us. They could talk about politics because we're also starting to, about feminism because the young women here are not ashamed of it anymore (for the most part), about the LGBT+ Community because homophobic marches and and gender discrimination are allowed and normalized, about other religions besides christianity because the church has to stop it's influence on the Government. My hope for Skam here comes from the wish of a country who is inclusive, multi-colored and respectful of it's multiculturalism. The need of something that shows us as we truly are, flawed but with the possibility of change, is bigger than ever.

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The Facts Behind President Trump’s Trade War with China and Europe

The United States had recently engaged in trade wars with China and Europe that have taken a toll on the American economy. Here’s what you need to know about the developing situation.

China

Facts

President Donald Trump has shown anger towards the lack of fairness in trade with China, and on this part he isn’t totally incorrect. With regard to trade, in some aspects, China has an advantage. For instance, while the US has a 2.5% tariff on Chinese motor vehicles, China has a 25% tariff on American cars. However, China exports few cars to the American market – only 0.03% of cars bought in America are of Chinese origin. Overall, the US averages a 2.9% tariff on Chinese goods, while China averages a 6.3% on American products.

Trump acted on this by instigating a trade war with China, and so far, China seems poised to gain an upper hand: its 25% tariff on American goods like pork and soybeans hits $50 billion worth of US goods, while the US is only taxing $34 billion worth of Chinese goods. China also slashed tariffs from five Asian countries, including cutting taxes on beef and soybeans to zero percent. Not only that, but Chinese subsidies are an astonishing $165 billion, or more than eight times higher than American agricultural subsidies.

However, despite these subsidies (that have pre-existed this trade war), in 2016, the US exported $21 billion in agricultural products to China, while only importing $4.3 billion that same year. Clearly, the US model is superior to the Chinese model when comparing the agriculture industries – this could be a result of a greater prevalence of capitalism, or more favorable weather conditions or a combination of both.

After farmers across the Midwest began to struggle, Trump responded with a $12 billion bailout for farmers as relief. First off, agricultural subsidies in the past haven’t been for everyone. While the US government spends $20 billion a year in agricultural subsidies, 61% of farms receive nothing, while the top 1% of farms received 20% of the benefits. We don’t know if Trump’s farm subsidies will reflect how subsidies have normally been distributed.

There’s certainly reason to believe that there is a political motive at play, as farmers are clearly a Republican-supporting demographic. In a Farm Journal Survey given out before the 2016 election to over 2000 farmers, Trump defeated Clinton 74%-9% in the survey. There’s obviously a political component to this, but whether or not that’s the reasoning behind the subsidies is unknown.

Overall, the US exports 6 times more cars to China than it imports and exports nearly 5 times more agricultural goods than China, yet it still has a $337.2 billion trade deficit.

Analysis

I think it’s unreasonable not to concede that China has taken advantage of the US via trade, not just through subsidies and tariffs, but also through currency manipulation and violations of intellectual property rights. The solution to this problem has actually already been proposed in my opinion.

Notice that China’s first action to lessen the blow of America’s tariffs was to slash tariffs with five Asian countries, that’s simply so that those Asian countries would hopefully reciprocate and Chinese companies that rely on exports can replace their dwindling and more expensive American markets with different foreign markets.

Under President Obama, the US negotiated the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It wasn’t without flaws, but it would’ve created free trade with fourteen countries across North America, South America and Asia and most importantly, it didn’t include China. One of the tariffs the TPP would’ve phased out would’ve been auto tariffs, which currently range from over 40% in Vietnam to 6% in Chile or Canada. A free trade deal of this caliber, that I believe should’ve gone further to include more countries like Taiwan or South Korea, would’ve devastated the Chinese economy as much as the tariffs without any American economic turmoil as a result. Unfortunately, Trump tore up the TPP on his first days in office via executive order.

I hope Trump’s endgame is to end tariffs, subsidies and currency manipulation across China and America, but so far, his attempt to do so has been reckless. China is responding with very calculated moves: a tariff on an industry that America has a trade surplus on, agriculture, while cutting tariffs with mutual Asian trade partners.

Free trade promotes economic prosperity among all nations above as I explain in a book that I co-authored that will soon be released called Igniting Liberty, and I’m glad we’re fighting for free and fair trade with China, but this is a poor way to achieve that goal.

The Chinese tariffs are already detrimentally impacting America’s farming industry, and tariffs on Chinese products will ultimately be a tax on the American consumer as prices rise. Trump then responded with this mistake with another: an expensive subsidy that will likely prove ineffective at a time when the US is already running a $665 billion deficit. The problem shouldn’t be “fixed” with angry tweets, random tariffs and politically-charged socialist bailouts, but rather proper negotiation for mutual tariff reduction with China, while creating a free trade agreement with our American and Asian allies. While I hope Trump’s endgame is to reduce barriers, taxes and subsidies to zero with Asian nations, his immediate exit from the TPP coupled with his impulsive tariffs leave me skeptical.

Europe

Facts

While inequalities in tariffs and regulations exist across industries, the weighted tariff rate between Europe and America are practically equal: 1.92% average weighted tariffs on America and 1.95% average weighted tariffs on Europe from America in 2016.

In the G7 summit in Canada, Trump accused foreign nations of ripping us off on trade, which based on this number alone, I don’t exactly agree with. Trump references the EU 10% tariff on American cars versus the 2.5% tariff on Eurozone cars, but there are also examples of America having an edge against Europe.

The average European tariff on American footwear was 3.14% in 2016, while America taxed European shoes at 7.41%, and footwear isn’t a small industry when you consider all of the European brands such as Adidas, Reebok, Puma, and so on.

Unlike China, the trade deficit isn’t nearly as large: the US exported $501 billion to the EU in 2016, while importing $593 billion from the EU. It goes without saying that an imbalance of trade doesn’t prove an imbalance of policy, but the trade imbalance between US and Eurozone isn’t substantial.

The price level estimated by the OECD is 114 in the United States compared to 92 in the European Union, and higher prices in the US may partially explain why the US has a trade deficit with the EU.

Trump again instigated the trade war with a 25% steel tariff and 10% aluminum tariff on Mexico, Canada and the EU, to which the Eurozone retaliated with tariffs hitting $3.3 billion worth of American goods, which EU officials claim is dollar for dollar with American tariffs. Recently, Trump met with the European Commission President and is moving forward to reduce tariffs, barriers and subsidies, which if carried out, would be a phenomenal alternative to a trade war.

Analysis

While I don’t believe the European Union was taking advantage of America as a whole, I applaud President Trump for liberalizing trade with Europe. His tactics seemed immature and spontaneous, but the result is lower tariffs and freer markets for American producers and consumers alike, and for that, I applaud him. I look forward to see where this leads to and I encourage Trump to also meet bilaterally with Eastern European countries such as Bosnia, where the US average weighted tariff rate is 5%, or Slovenia, a country that both myself and Trump’s wife have ethnic heritage from.

Trade with the European Union currently support 2.6 million American jobs, and if tariffs are cut from 2% to 0%, causing trade and job growth to grow at a convenient 2% in reaction, trade with Europe could hypothetically support an additional 52,000 more American jobs. The next step should be to eliminate subsidies that do nothing less than hurt the American taxpayer.

Conclusion

If I were to grade Trump’s handling of trade with China, I would give him an F, but if I were to grade his performance with Europe, I would give him nothing short of an A.

The disparity in success we’ve seen thus far can be attributed to numerous things. First off, the Chinese economy is much healthier than Europe’s. China’s unemployment rate hovers at 3.9% and it exports more than any country in the world at a whopping $2.27 trillion. Meanwhile, Europe still hasn’t recovered from the debt panics of Southern European countries like Spain, Greece and Italy. The European Union has an embarrassing 57.7% labor force participation rate and 7% unemployment rate, all the while only touting a 0.4% quarterly GDP growth rate. The Chinese economy can survive a trade war right now, but the European Union isn’t certain.

Second, as previously mentioned, Europe isn’t really exploiting the United States via trade, so giving in to Donald Trump’s demands isn’t particularly difficult, whereas China is aware of the long-term impacts of equalizing trade barriers and practices with the United States.

The third reason is more political: China is a one party dictatorship that can quickly react to American policy decisions; the EU is a multinational bureaucracy.

I wish Trump the best if his genuine motive is to liberalize trade across all countries, but I’m both skeptical of his tactics and motives.

I expressed my concerns with his unorthodox methods for dealing with foreign leaders and trade, but despite his tweets calling for an elimination of barriers, tariffs and subsidies, he continues to criticize NAFTA and he destroyed the TPP the second he took office.

What is clear, however, is that the best outcome for the American people is an end to these trade wars and an elimination of tariffs, regulations and subsidies that hold back companies, workers and consumers alike from financial prosperity.

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Shin Guards Market Overview Shin guard is a piece of the material worn front of the players to protect the lower part of the leg from injury while playing sports such as football, ice hockey, lacrosse, cricket, and many more sports.  The main function of the shin guard is to protect soft tissues and bones of the lower part of the leg from external impact. Besides, it offers shock absorption and facilitates energy dissipation by decreasing the risk of serious injuries. Moreover, increasing sports-related activities in schools and the high disposable income of the end-user are factors driving the global shin guards market. Market Drivers Increasing Knowledge about Protection in Sports, Availability of Advanced Products

Growing Number of Sports  Tournaments and Leagues is key Driving factor of the Shin Guards market

Market Trend Demand for Light Weight Shin Guard Restraints Adverse Effect of Shin Guard on the Skin like Dermatitis, Inflammations Challenges Key Competition Between Manufacturers The Global Shin Guards Market segments and Market Data Break Down are illuminated below: by Type (Slip- In Shin Guards, Ankle Shin Guards), Application (Baseball, Ice Hockey, Field Hockey, Lacrosse, Mountain Bike Trials, Others), Raw Material (Fiberglass, Polyurethane, Carbon Fiber, Foam Rubber, Others), Distribution Channel (Online, Offline (Hypermarkets, Supermarkets)), Gender (Male, Female) Region Included are: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Oceania, South America, Middle East & Africa

Country Level Break-Up: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, South Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Turkey, Russia, France, Poland, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand etc. Enquire for customization in Report @: https://www.advancemarketanalytics.com/enquiry-before-buy/6661-global-and-india-shin-guards-market Strategic Points Covered in Table of Content of Global Shin Guards Market:

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Chapter 3: Displaying the Market Dynamics- Drivers, Trends and Challenges & Opportunities of the Shin Guards

Chapter 4: Presenting the Shin Guards Market Factor Analysis, Post COVID Impact Analysis, Porters Five Forces, Supply/Value Chain, PESTEL analysis, Market Entropy, Patent/Trademark Analysis.

Chapter 5: Displaying the by Type, End User and Region/Country 2015-2020

Chapter 6: Evaluating the leading manufacturers of the Shin Guards market which consists of its Competitive Landscape, Peer Group Analysis, BCG Matrix & Company Profile

Chapter 7: To evaluate the market by segments, by countries and by Manufacturers/Company with revenue share and sales by key countries in these various regions (2021-2026)

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Fashion Law en 2020: Parte III

Foto: UNSPLASH Hace unas semanas comenzamos con la serie de artículos “Fashion Law en 2020″, hemos cubierto temas como la necesidad del Fashion Law, qué es, su historia y ramas del derecho que integra. La semana pasada partimos con lo que es la Propiedad Intelectual e Industrial y su relación con la Moda, abarcando temas como el Derecho de Autos y Moda y los Dibujos y Diseñsos Industriales, analizando la normativa chilena, comparándola con lo que sucede en USA Y EU, y por su puesto, ejemplificandolo con casos relevantes de Fashion Law en esos temas. Hoy seguiremos por la misma línea, analizando las marcas comerciales y patentes y su relación con la moda.

Marcas Comerciales y la Moda

De acuerdo con la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Industrial (OMPI) en ¿Qué es la Propiedad Intelectual?, “La marca es un signo distintivo que indica que ciertos productos o servicios han sido elaborados o prestados por determinada persona o empresa”[1].

En Chile, el artículo 19 de la Ley Nº 19.039 de Propiedad Industrial, define la marca comercial como “todo  signo  que  sea  susceptible  de representación  gráfica  capaz  de  distinguir  en  el  mercado  productos,  servicios  o  establecimientos  industriales  o comerciales”.

Ahora, surge la pregunta sobre qué se entiende por signo distintivo. De acuerdo con lo señalado por la OMPI en ¿Qué es la Propiedad Intelectual? El carácter distintivo se refiere al hecho de “que los consumidores puedan distinguirlo de las marcas que identifican a otros productos, además de relacionarlo con un producto en particular”[2]. En éste sentido, esto sería el poder distinguir entre marcas como NIKE o ADIDAS, o en el sector del lujo entre marcas como ELIE SAAB y GIAMBATTISTA VALLI.

La tercera parte del inciso 1º del artículo 19 de la Ley 10.039 señala que “Cuando los signos no sean intrínsecamente distintivos, podrá concederse el registro si han adquirido distintividad por medio del uso en el mercado nacional”.

Conforme con lo señalado anteriormente, es que entendemos que la marca comercial es uno de los activos más importantes para la empresa de moda y el diseñador, puesto que es la vía que permite identificar que un producto pertenece a tal marca y no a otra. Lo anterior por ejemplo, nos permite identificar un impermeable Burberry o una cartera Louis Vuitton. Así, en el caso de Louis Vuitton entendemos que éstas carteras llevan la LV y además constan con un damier que es exclusivo y que ninguna otra marca tiene.

En la segunda parte del inciso primero del artículo 19 de la Ley de Propiedad Industrial, se indica en qué podrán consistir éstos signos señalando que “podrán consistir en palabras, incluidos los nombres de personas, letras, números, elementos figurativos tales como imágenes, gráficos, símbolos, combinaciones de colores, sonidos, así como también, cualquier combinación de éstos signos”. Así a modo de ejemplo, respecto de la marca como nombre de persona encontramos la marca Karyn Coo que lleva el nombre de la diseñadora, o también el caso de Stella McCartney; respecto de las letras un ejemplo de esto es la ‘MK’ de la marca Michael Kors y si alguna persona ve en una cartera colgando las letras ‘MK’ sabrá que ésta es una cartera Michael Kors y no otra.

Surge la pregunta sobre qué marcas son las que no pueden registrarse. A éste respecto, el artículo 20 de la Ley 19.039 nos ofrece un listado taxativo de las marcas que no pueden registrarse, indicando en su enunciado “No podrán registrarse como marcas”. Así, entendemos que todas las marcas señaladas en el listado se entiende como una prohibición absoluta.

Para ejemplificar les dejo el resumen de un caso muy interesante:

Chanel SAS interpuso un recurso contra la resolución de la Tercera Sala de Recurso de la EUIPO de 18 de noviembre de 2015 relativa a un procedimiento de nulidad entre, por un lado, Chanel y, por otro, el Sr. Li Jing Zhou y Golden Rose 999.

En un primer momento, la sentencia se refiere a los antecedentes del litigio en que se refiere a que el 30 de marzo de 2010, el Sr. Li Jing Zhou presentó una solicitud de registro de un dibujo comunitario en la Oficina de Propiedad Intelectual de la Unión Europea (EUIPO), en virtud de lo dispuesto en el Reglamento sobre los dibujos y modelos comunitarios. Del dibujo mencionado anteriormente, era copropietaria Golden Rose 999. Conforme con lo anterior, es que el 4 de diciembre de 2013 Chanel SAS presentó una solicitud de declaracion de nulidad del dibujo controvertido, puesto que ésta alegaba que el dibujo no era nuevo en el sentido del artículo 5 del Reglamento n.º6/2002. Según esta última, el dibujo controvertido presentaba una gran similitud con su propio monograma y era prácticamente idéntico a éste, el cual se encontraba registrado como marca comercial en Francia desde 1989. Además, Chanel SAS invocó la falta de carácter del dibujo controvertido, con arreglo al artículo 6 del reglamento referido anteriormente.

El 15 de julio de 2014 la División de Anulación de la EUIPO desestimó la solicitud de declaración de nulidad debido a que el dibujo no constituía un obstáculo para la novedad ni para el carácter singular del diseño controvertido, puesto que las diferencias entre los dibujos en conflicto no eran insignificantes. Respecto de la falta de carácter singular del dibujo controvertido, la división consideró que en el consumidor informado producía una impresión distinta a la del dibujo Chanel. Conforme con lo anterior, es que el 10 de septiembre de 2014 Chanel SAS interpuso ante la Sala de Recurso de la EUIPO un recurso contra la resolución de la División de Anulación. Sin embargo, mediante resolución de 18 de noviembre de 2015, la Tercera Sala de Recurso de la EUIPO desestimó el recurso.

Finalmente, el Tribunal General (Sala Cuarta) decide anular la resolución de la tercera sala de recurso de la oficina de propiedad intelectual de la Unión Europea y desestimar el recurso en todo lo demás. Lo anterior, porque ésta incurrió en un error al considerar que el dibujo controvertido poseía carácter singular respecto del monograma Chanel.

Si quieren saber más sobre las marcas comerciales y la moda, les comparto los links de algunos artículos que he escrito al respecto tanto en esta página, como en EOB Fashion, Luxury & Retail:

-       Un clásico: Christian Louboutin vs. Yves Saint Laurent: Caso que comienza cuando en 2008 a Louboutin le fue concedida como marca la suela roja en USA.

-       Marc Jacobs y su intento de inscribir la marca “THE”:  Caso en que Marc Jacobs intenta en todas las formas posibles de registrar como marca la palabra THE; en que en un principio solicita para las clases 18 y 25 una filing basis 1B, posteriormente cambió de idea y las solicito como 1B y 1A respectivamente, y continúa …

-       La gran batalla de Michael Kors en Chile: Caso Michael Kors, L.L.C. con Abumojor y otros: En que Michael Kors logra se declare la nulidad del registro marcaría de la marca Michael Kors, ya que la sociedad Tracciati Limitada obtuvo ese registro ilegítimamente. Caso que no quedó ahí puesto que años después integrantes de la misma sociedad comercializaron productos falsificados de Michael Kors bajo la marca Michael Kors.

Patentes y la Moda

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De conformidad al artículo 31 de la Ley Nº 19.039  Propiedad Industrial, se entiende por invención toda solución a un problema de la técnica que origine un quehacer industrial, entendiendo que la invención podrá ser un producto, un procedimiento o estar relacionada con ellos; y por patente se entiende el derecho exclusivo que concede el Estado para la protección de una invención. Así, las patentes de invención se aplicarán en el caso de nuevos textiles que incorporen nueva tecnología[3].

De acuerdo con la OMPI, la protección que ofrece una patente tiene relación con que “Una invención protegida por patente no puede ser fabricada, utilizada, distribuida ni vendida con fines comerciales sin el consentimiento del titular de la patente”[4]. En concordancia con el planteamiento de la OMPI, la Ley de Propiedad Industrial Nº 19.039 en su artículo 49 señala que “El dueño de una patente de invención gozará de exclusividad para producir, vender o comercializar, en cualquier forma, el producto u objeto del invento, y en general, realizar cualquier otro tipo de explotación comercial del mismo”.

Conforme con lo anterior, es que se entiende que para que algo sea considerado como invención y por tanto su titular tenga el derecho exclusivo de la patente derivada de dicha invención debe tener una condición de novedad. A éste respecto, el artículo 33 de la Ley 19.039 en su inciso 1º señala que “Una invención se considera nueva, cuando no existe con anterioridad en el estado de la técnica. El estado de la técnica comprenderá todo lo que haya sido divulgado o hecho accesible al público, en cualquier lugar del mundo, mediante una publicación en forma tangible, la venta o comercialización, el uso o cualquier otro medio, antes de la fecha de presentación de la solicitud de patente en Chile o de la prioridad reclamada según el artículo 34”. De lo anterior se desprende que la condición de novedad se refiere a que la invención no haya sido divulgada al público con anterioridad, de cualquier forma y en cualquier lugar del mundo.

Sin embargo, para facilitarnos el examen al momento de determinar si una invención cumple o no con la condición de novedad, el artículo 37 de la mencionada Ley nos presenta un listado taxativo de lo que no se considerará invención y que por tanto quedará excluido de la protección que otorga una patente, señalando expresamente en su encabezado que “No se considera invención y quedarán excluidos de la protección por patente de ésta ley” los ítems señalados en éste artículo.

Respecto de la duración de una patente de invención, el artículo 39 de la Ley de Propiedad Industrial inca que “Las patentes de invención se considerarán por un periodo no renovable de 20 años, contado desde la fecha de presentación de la solicitud”.

Conforme a lo señalado anteriormente en éste apartado, se entiende que si bien es posible la protección de un diseño de moda por la vía de las patentes de invención, en la práctica resulta muy difícil de llevarse a cabo debido al alto estándar que se debe cumplir en razón del requisito de la condición de novedad de la invención. En éste mismo sentido, en Estados Unidos si bien las patentes de diseño (design patents como son denominadas en ese país) presentan una oportunidad para proteger los diseños de moda por sí mismos, la protección que se otorga se limita solo a los elementos del diseño que son considerados como novedosos[5] al igual que como ocurre en la legislación chilena. Asimismo, algunos autores -refiriéndose a la design patent- señalan que debido a que los diseños de moda generalmente incorporan diseños preexistentes, muchos de ellos no pueden calificar para la protección que otorga la design patent[6].

By. María José González 

FASHION LAW CHILE

[1] Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual, “¿Qué es la Propiedad Intelectual?”, en OMPI, Ginebra, nº 450, p. 8

[2] Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual, ob. cit., n° 450, p. 8

[3] ERRÁZURIZ, C. MELOSSI, A., ob. cit.

[4] Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual, ob. cit., nº 450, p. 5

[5] MONTALVO WITZBURG, F., ob cit., p. 1134

[6] Montalvo Witzburg, F., ob. cit., p. 1134

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Ruszył nabór do 9. edycji projektu Szkoła Teledysków, w ramach którego filmowcy stworzą teledyski dla znanych artystów. W tym roku powstaną klipy dla Bass Astral x Igo, Mery Spolsky oraz rapera Moliego.

Na zgłoszenia czekamy tylko do 16 września! 

Dla kogo?

Do tego twórczego szaleństwa szukamy filmowców i filmowczyń wszystkich specjalności: reżyserów, scenarzystów, scenografów, operatorów, kierowników produkcji, ale również tych, którzy widzą się na planie filmu, reklamy albo teledysku. Szukamy osób, które już działają na rynku albo dopiero zaczynają swoją przygodę. Do udziału w projekcie zapraszamy tylko osoby pełnoletnie. 

Na czym polega projekt? 

36 wybranych uczestników i uczestniczek weźmie udział w serii wykładów poświęconych różnym zagadnieniom i etapom tworzenia wideoklipów.

W rolę wykładowców wejdą czołowi twórcy polskich teledysków, m.in. Grajper oraz Filip Załuska. Podstawą dobrego teledysku jest scenariusz, o którym opowie script coach Agnieszka Kruk ze StoryLab.pro, natomiast tajniki produkcji zdradzi producentka Alicja Jagodzińska. Łącznie szykujemy 18 godzin wykładów. 

Równolegle do wykładów uczestnicy podzieleni na trzy 12-osobowe ekipy filmowe będą pracować na teledyskami dla artystów, którzy podjęli rękawicę i udostępnili nam swoje utwory. Opiekę artystyczną nad projektami będą sprawować doświadczeni mentorzy i filmowcy: Roman Przylipiak, Agnieszka Gomułka oraz Piotrek Matejkowski. 

Po dwóch weekendowych zjazdach (pt.-ndz.) uczestnicy i uczestniczki przystąpią do realizacji zdjęć i postprodukcji. Wcześniej scenariusze zaakceptują zaproszeni do projektu artyści. Do dyspozycji uczestnicy otrzymają dostęp do sprzętu filmowego oraz budżet produkcyjny. Partnerami w tym roku są: Heliograf, Panda Films i Film Produkcja. Resztę muszą wykonać sami. Premiery teledysków odbędą się podczas gali w Domu Kultury Kadr w listopadzie. Potem wideoklipy trafią na oficjalne kanały artystów.

Projekt będzie realizowany w zgodzie z aktualnymi wytycznymi dotyczącymi organizacji wydarzeń kulturalnych w czasie pandemii.  

O nas:

Szkoła Teledysków organizowana jest od 2008 roku. Do tej pory w ramach 8 edycji powstało ponad 20 teledysków. Wśród wykonawców, dla których zrealizowano klipy, znaleźli się m.in:  Vienio, Bovska, Solar Białas, Sonar, Sound and Grace, Sorry Boys, Bedoes.  Projekt współfinansowany jest przez miasto stołeczne Warszawa. 

Prace uczestników poprzednich edycji można obejrzeć tutaj:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbOo32GSSjiDWpPCD5ROxOaAuV19NyS9d

Jak się zgłosić: 

Aby się zgłosić, należy wypełnić przygotowany przez nas formularz https://tiny.pl/7jm4w.

Ważne info:

Na zgłoszenia, czyli wypełniony formularz czekamy do 16 września do godz. 23:59 (zanim karoca zamieni się w dynię).

O  wynikach rekrutacji poinformujemy wszystkich mejlowo do 18 września do godz. 20:00.

Koszt udziału w projekcie wynosi 280 zł, płatne po zakwalifikowaniu się przed rozpoczęciem działań.

Zajęcia odbędą się w Domu Kultury Kadr w Warszawie (ul. Rzymowskiego 32) w dwóch zjazdach: 25-27.09 oraz 2-4.10. Po tym terminie ustalane będą terminy zdjęć dla każdej z trzech produkcji.

Regulamin wydarzenia dostępny jest tutaj: https://tiny.pl/7ppp1.    

Dane kontaktowe

Wszelkie informacje o projekcie można uzyskać u koordynatora projektu: wojtek@fundacjaplaster.pl lub dzwoniąc na: 660 477 834. 

Making of edycji 2018: 

Plany zdjęciowe odbędą się między 9 a 25 października.

Premiera teledysków jest przewidziana na 11 listopada.

Kogo z branży posłuchacie?

Czekają na Was oczy i uszy specjalistów, czyli mentorzy: Agnieszka Gomułka, Piotr Matejkowski, Roman Przylipiak oraz wykładowcy: Agnieszka Kruk, Grajper, Filip Załuska, Alicja Jagodzińska, Ola Wodołowska, Joanna Cisowska, Igor Pająk.

Sylwetki mentorów

Agnieszka Gomułka: Reżyserka, producentka, montażystka, wykładowczyni. Absolwentka Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz Akademii Filmu i Telewizji, gdzie ukończyła Wydział Reżyserii, a także Wydział Kierownictwa Produkcji. Przez kilka lat związana zawodowo z MTV POLSKA. Wykładowczyni. Realizuje filmy dokumentalne, fabularne, teledyski i reportaże. Jej krótkometrażowy film „Szczęściarze” był zakwalifikowany do Konkursu Kina Niezależnego 31. FPFF w Gdyni 2006 r. Od 2009 r. członkini Stowarzyszenia Filmowców Polskich w Sekcji Filmu Dokumentalnego. Jej największą pasją jest film dokumentalny. Agnieszka współpracuje ze Szkołą Teledysków od początku jej istnienia. Do tej pory była opiekunką artystyczną grup realizujących obrazy do utworów hip-hopowych takich artystów jak Bedoes czy Vienio. 

Piotrek Matejkowski: Reżyser krótkich form filmowych, wizualnie wysmakowanych reklam dla Nike, McDonald’s, Desperados, Lech Premium Beer, Apple,  Reserved, Puma, Adidas i teledysków dla debiutujących, a także znanych artystów. Piotr jest również filmowcem-podróżnikiem. Dzięki swojej kreatywności, pasji i ciekawości kręcił filmy w Rio de Janeiro, Hawany, Bangkoku, Hiszpanii, Francji, Anglii i USA. Chce opowiadać zapadające w pamięć, prawdziwe historie, sprawnie poruszając się w różnych gatunkach. Jego filmy otrzymały wiele nominacji i nagród m. in. na Los Angeles Cinefest, Berlin Music Video Awards, Bucharest Short Cut CIneFest, KTR Awards. Piotr jest zdobywcą nagrody Grand Prix podczas I edycji PL Music Video Awards za teledysk Flary zespołu PRO3L8M.

Roman Przylipiak: Absolwent PWSFTviT w Łodzi oraz Mistrzowskiej Szkoły Andrzeja Wajdy. Tworzy fabuły, teledyski i reklamy. Jest autorem klipów dla: Maryli Rodowicz, JohnA Mitko, Ani Wyszkoni, Artura Andrusa, Roberta M oraz zespołów: Me and that Man, Feel, Lady Pank, UL/KR, Das moon, Plastic, Beneficjenci Splendoru. Reżyseruje także wizualizacje do spektakli teatralnych. Jest laureatem wielu nagród i wyróżnień za filmy fabularne (m.in. Za film „Jerry” Najlepsza Rezyseria na Open Place Film Festival, Łotwa, Najlepszy film na Kamera Akcja Festival w Łodzi, Najlepszy Film Krótkometrażowy CIFA Film Festival, Chile i teledyski (na Aesthetica Film Festival / York, Anglia, Festival Cinematográfixo de Mérida, Meksyk 2019 Yach Film Festival / Polska). Wykłada podstawy reżyserii na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim. 

Sylwetki artystów, dla których powstaną teledyski

[źródło: http://kayax.pl/artysta/mery-sposky/] Mery Spolsky: „Mery Spolsky pisze teksty, zamienia je w piosenki i prowokuje... głównie do myślenia. Jej słowa są szczere, ubrane w mocne elektro-techno brzmienia i piosenkowe melodie. W zasadzie większość rzeczy robi sama, bo chce, żeby wszystko co robi miało etykietkę »spolsky« – projektuje scenografię, grafiki oraz stroje, produkuje i komponuje. Od debiutanckiego albumu towarzyszy jej »krzyż spolsky«, który niesie pomoc zagubionym sercom. Kolejnym znakiem rozpoznawczym są »pasky«, bo jak twierdzi, kolor czarny odzwierciedla jej czarny humor, a biały podkreśla białe wiersze. Artystka przyznaje się do inspiracji szaloną twórczością Salvadora Dalego, czerpie z motywu pasków Grzegorza Ciechowskiego i nurza się w abstrakcjach Die Antwoord. [...]. W 2017 roku wydała debiutancką płytę pt. »Miło Było Pana Poznać« pod szyldem wytwórni Kayax. Kilka miesięcy później tytułowy singiel wygrał plebiscyt na najlepszy utwór roku w Radiu Kampus. Debiut artystki został nominowany do nagrody Fryderyk 2018 w kategoriach: Fonograficzny Debiut Roku oraz Album Roku Elektronika” (źródło: https://www.facebook.com/pg/meryspolsky/about/?ref=page_internal).

[źródło: https://iglorecords.com/]

Bass Astral x Igo: „Duet Bass Astral x Igo tworzą producent Kuba Tracz i wokalista Igor Walaszek. Obaj swoje pierwsze kroki na muzycznej scenie stawiali w rockowym zespole Clock Machine. Dzięki temu, że nie mieli wcześniej do czynienia z muzyką elektroniczną, wnoszą do niej zupełnie nowe rozwiązania, dalekie od mód i trendów panujących w tej stylistyce. Ich koncerty to pełne tańca i improwizacji live acty, które oszałamiają publiczność w Polsce i zagranicą. Duet ma na koncie dwa długogrające albumy. W marcu w 2017 roku muzycy wyruszyli w trasę, by promować ostatni z nich – »Orell«. Płyta zrobiła sporo zamieszania na rynku muzycznym, co poskutkowało całkowicie wyprzedaną wiosenną trasą koncertową w 2018 r.” (źródło: https://iglorecords.com/). Ich najnowszy projekt to „Satellite”.

fot. Piotr Pytel

Moli: Moli, a właściwie Adam Koźmiński urodził się w 1994 roku w Inowrocławiu, a trochę ponad rok temu podpisał swój kontrakt z SBM Label. Szerszej publiczności dał się poznać dzięki drugiej edycji akcji SBM Starter w 2018 roku, zaprezentował wtedy bardzo dobrze przyjęty utwór „Versus”. Moli dysponuje charakterystycznym głosem oraz flow, które wyróżniają go na tle innych debiutujących raperów. Wśród jego największych inspiracji znajdziemy m.in. Drake’a, Travisa Scotta oraz The Weekend. Utwory artysty cechuje prawdziwość oraz brak autocenzury, które nadają im niesamowity wydźwięk oraz mogą przyprawić o ciarki niejednego słuchacza. Podczas swojego #hot16challenge2, Moli po raz pierwszy ogłosił szerszej publice, że na co dzień jest żołnierzem i w takim też klimacie utrzymał też swój debiutancki singiel „Pąki białych róż”, na którym opowiada właśnie o swoich początkach w wojsku. Na chwilę obecną Moli pracuje nad swoją pierwszą płytą pod szyldem warszawskiej wytwórni.