A Look Back at the 2021 WOTC Events
As we say goodbye to 2021, we couldn’t bring the year to a close without highlighting the remarkable events we’ve had, which has seen women supporting women, sending the ladder down and coming together to create real change.
We began our year of events with Europe’s biggest female conversation during Women’s History Month, featuring 100 female hosts and speakers and 27 panels across 6 consecutive days, who included everyone from Tom Ford’s former PA and FLOWERBX founder Whitney Bromberg Hawkings, Maria Hatzistefanis of Rodial, the Mayor of London’s senior digital communications strategist Charlie Lait, as well as press gurus from Bottega Veneta & Bvlgari.
As fashion month arrived, WOTC Magazine celebrated the various long-awaited Fashion Week’s from New York City to London with a two-day event, featuring intimate talks on luxury, retail, social media and sustainability from global leaders within the sector and a sustainable runway featuring AQ/AQ.
We honoured and supported the incredible Malaika foundation, founded by Nöella Coursaris Musunka at a private breakfast at Nobu, in Park Lane to kick off the two-day event. Malaika is on a mission to empower girls and their communities through education and health programs.
Guests at WOTC Fashion Week included a foray of former and current WOTC cover girls such as Mariya Dykalo, Aspinal of London’s Creative Director; Marine Tanguy of MTArt Agency, Emily Rea & Thais Cipolletta of The Restory and HLD’s Hannah Holland. Friends included international artist Nat Bowen, Sherrille Riley of Nails & Brows, Mumble Forum’s Monique Vega Hodgson, and musical artist Nqobilé. Luxury cars took guests to talks at Selfridges and the Bvlgari Hotel London.
The following day, we were back at Nobu for a reception of Prosecco and canapés, whilst we watched a number of emerging fashion brands walk down the runway, alongside legendary womenswear label AQ/AQ, at WOTC’s sustainable catwalk.
Finally, we brought the year to a close with the red-carpeted New Faces Awards ceremony, an evening that sought to honour the myriad of achievements and contributions of our 60 nominees at the illustrious Berkeley hotel in Knightsbridge. Alongside the spectacular evening, guests enjoyed a 3-course meal and a never-seen-before panel titled ‘sending the ladder down,’ which featured Alexandra Shulman; former British Vogue EIC.