For its 10-year partnership with Cannes, Kering pulled out all the stops. The luxury group, which launched its Women in Motion programme in 2015 to highlight women’s contribution to cinema as part of its commitment to advance gender parity, this year honoured Nicole Kidman at a star-studded dinner on Sunday in Cannes.
Headliner aside, Kering invested a record sum in its 10th edition, which is telling considering the wider challenges the group is facing. “Women and sustainability are pillars of Kering. It’s not because of the challenging context that we’ll stop what we do on these two fronts — it’s the DNA of the group,” Kering chairman and CEO François-Henri Pinault tells me during the Women in Motion cocktail event held on Saturday in the Kering suite at Hôtel Majestic. (Pinault reiterated Kering’s commitment to sustainability during the group’s annual general meeting in April.)
