[Music]
Good evening to everyone
I’ll introduce myself, my name is benedetta de luca
or 30 years I’m a doctor in
jurisprudence and I am a lover of fashion
of theater music and I’m affected
from the genesis to the sacred here is agenesia
of the sacred a rare disease that affects
about 1 in 60 thousand newborns well that 1
it just happened to me a bit like
win I do not know the lottery
when I was born the doctors did not give me
many life hopes
indeed no doctor would have bet one
euro on me just because me
they considered it too complex a case
fortunately, however, thanks to the
stubbornness of my family
especially of my mother that here
present and a doctor in particular
who decided to take care of me I can
say today to still be here
when I was a little girl, then I do not have
memory of that time values alive
through the words of my mother the
which he said that when the doctor who
he decided to take care of me he saw me
for the first time both France in mine
port enfant and looking at me nemi occhioni
blue said, but you are quite a handsome man
a woman’s project and we will do it
become thirty years later of which 18
of surgery on the legs
many years spent in hospital and
almost twenty centimeters less than
to the average of my height
I can say however that that project of
woman today has come true
I certainly there is also to say, however, that not
it is simple to live with a disability
when unfortunately there are limits
objective it is hard to accept if
themselves
do not feel you do not feel adequate and
as if I refuse it was around the corner
this because because the world imposes us
specific canons of beauty that I then
I wonder but who decides what is beautiful or
perfect to be a disabled woman not
means losing the desire to
feeling beautiful sexy attractive female
fashionable means actually accepting if
same and love each other oscar wilde said that
to love yourself and the beginning of one
love story long a lifetime
and it is so we must not have to
learn to appreciate disability or
least I also address all women
that maybe you do not accept for one
little physical defect because there is
need self-esteem and self-esteem is a
po like a muscle flashed day for
day
we need to nourish our image
in front of the mirror enhancing the
merits but without hiding to hate some
physical defect not even a physical defect
evident as that of a disability
that then what the company defines
defect is basically part of us
and consequently also belongs to the
our beauty yo yo
here is try to break down these
stereotypes related to the world of
disability stereotypes also of
hypocrisy compression and I am
always realized that unfortunately these
stereotypes exist both from the looks
of people as a child but growing up
then I realized it above all
from the looks of men when they are
I’ll explain why when I’m sitting
for example at a table in a bar
or
I’m in the car behind my wheel
cars because the disabled drive happens to me
to be observed with the eyes of a
of a man who obviously looks at one
beautiful girl a platinum blonde and also
inconspicuous but then it happens that
when I get out of the car or maybe me
I move from the table of the bar accompanied
from my wheelchair or from
my crutches that see why I rather
the monster’s because I’m an accessory
fashion leopard, but the looks
they change and become intrigued looks
of compassion as if who knows which
pity they had done to look at one
disabled woman as if there is a halo of
protection around disabled women
that aura of protection that is for the
women for fragile people and children
as if a disabled woman can not
expressing seduction and beauty
I may be with blond hair
platinum clear skin to the eyes
clear but perhaps even to be
approached to an asexual angel no vi
I beg excessively so fortunately
but not all men are equal and
my boyfriend has never lowered him
look continued to look at me like
it is done with every other woman and called
here is going over my disability e
its repeating I love you from the head to
walking
it frees me from the idea of not being able to do it
nice enough
But here I am here above all because
I try to break down these stereotypes
through the world that par excellence
celebrates perfection and I’m talking about the
fashion world
at first the binomial fashion e
disabilities may seem unusual they can
it may seem like a combination
here is absurd risky a bit I do not know how
the pineapple on the pizza
who would ever eat it but not the
binomial fashion and disability is a combination
perfect believe me I am convinced
because for some years I have organized fashion shows
in fashion with girls and models then
professionals also fashions and models with
different disabilities have managed to
realize my dream thanks to
associations that believed in me
thanks to stylists who have decided to
to wear one’s own
even to a girl who maybe did not have
meters but it is sitting but it is beautiful equal vi
I show some pictures
here this is the last show that parade
we have organized and it is already a second one
edition
as you can see there is no dress is
beautiful but above all the smile
of the models and amazing each one then with
its own story
therefore, disability is not contagious
ignorance is the stylists said
so this because because the show
basically it is an excuse is a fact
pretentious behind each of them yes
hides a fantastic story not me
I can tell all but all
I would like to make you just an example like the
story of simona that did not accept the
just body because it is a body here is one
standardized to the aesthetic canons therefore
he does not know he could not accept his
disability was on his body though
when he learns that I had it
choice as a model
she decided to take that long
path of physiotherapy instead of her
he did not accept to do so for me
this was a right way for her
however, improved a lot or
as various to her and mother of a child
wonderful because we also dispel this
myth a disabled woman can become
also mother and when her son is
ashamed of the wheelchair of the
mother in front of the school, however, seeing
the parade on the catwalk
the child went to meet his mother
hugging her and the next day you do not
shame more than the disability of the
mother indeed was proud of it
saying my mother is a model
so there are so many little stories that
but they make me understand that it really is one
right way then to break down the
cliche stereotypes on this catwalk
that I define a catwalk
inclusion where there is no parade
there is fashion elegance and beauty there is also
disability but not only then me
in conclusion I want to say that the theme is
the waves are their own the wave that
that I try to throw with each one
force against these stereotypes e
prejudices
we learn to look at people with
disability with different eyes
we learn not to feel compassion anymore
but only respect without
superficiality because diversity
that of each of us legs crooked o
less disability or less is what there
It makes it unique and different from each
others
and it is a precious value do not believe in the
conformism that wants us all the same
believe instead of normal and try
to have no defects while normal
extraordinary and who has the courage to
accept and love each other in the good and in the
bad
thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
Good evening to everyone
I’ll introduce myself, my name is benedetta de luca
or 30 years I’m a doctor in
jurisprudence and I am a lover of fashion
of theater music and I’m affected
from the genesis to the sacred here is agenesia
of the sacred a rare disease that affects
about 1 in 60 thousand newborns well that 1
it just happened to me a bit like
win I do not know the lottery
when I was born the doctors did not give me
many life hopes
indeed no doctor would have bet one
euro on me just because me
they considered it too complex a case
fortunately, however, thanks to the
stubbornness of my family
especially of my mother that here
present and a doctor in particular
who decided to take care of me I can
say today to still be here
when I was a little girl, then I do not have
memory of that time values alive
through the words of my mother the
which he said that when the doctor who
he decided to take care of me he saw me
for the first time both France in mine
port enfant and looking at me nemi occhioni
blue said, but you are quite a handsome man
a woman’s project and we will do it
become thirty years later of which 18
of surgery on the legs
many years spent in hospital and
almost twenty centimeters less than
to the average of my height
I can say however that that project of
woman today has come true
I certainly there is also to say, however, that not
it is simple to live with a disability
when unfortunately there are limits
objective it is hard to accept if
themselves
do not feel you do not feel adequate and
as if I refuse it was around the corner
this because because the world imposes us
specific canons of beauty that I then
I wonder but who decides what is beautiful or
perfect to be a disabled woman not
means losing the desire to
feeling beautiful sexy attractive female
fashionable means actually accepting if
same and love each other oscar wilde said that
to love yourself and the beginning of one
love story long a lifetime
and it is so we must not have to
learn to appreciate disability or
least I also address all women
that maybe you do not accept for one
little physical defect because there is
need self-esteem and self-esteem is a
po like a muscle flashed day for
day
we need to nourish our image
in front of the mirror enhancing the
merits but without hiding to hate some
physical defect not even a physical defect
evident as that of a disability
that then what the company defines
defect is basically part of us
and consequently also belongs to the
our beauty yo yo
here is try to break down these
stereotypes related to the world of
disability stereotypes also of
hypocrisy compression and I am
always realized that unfortunately these
stereotypes exist both from the looks
of people as a child but growing up
then I realized it above all
from the looks of men when they are
I’ll explain why when I’m sitting
for example at a table in a bar
or
I’m in the car behind my wheel
cars because the disabled drive happens to me
to be observed with the eyes of a
of a man who obviously looks at one
beautiful girl a platinum blonde and also
inconspicuous but then it happens that
when I get out of the car or maybe me
I move from the table of the bar accompanied
from my wheelchair or from
my crutches that see why I rather
the monster’s because I’m an accessory
fashion leopard, but the looks
they change and become intrigued looks
of compassion as if who knows which
pity they had done to look at one
disabled woman as if there is a halo of
protection around disabled women
that aura of protection that is for the
women for fragile people and children
as if a disabled woman can not
expressing seduction and beauty
I may be with blond hair
platinum clear skin to the eyes
clear but perhaps even to be
approached to an asexual angel no vi
I beg excessively so fortunately
but not all men are equal and
my boyfriend has never lowered him
look continued to look at me like
it is done with every other woman and called
here is going over my disability e
its repeating I love you from the head to
walking
it frees me from the idea of not being able to do it
nice enough
But here I am here above all because
I try to break down these stereotypes
through the world that par excellence
celebrates perfection and I’m talking about the
fashion world
at first the binomial fashion e
disabilities may seem unusual they can
it may seem like a combination
here is absurd risky a bit I do not know how
the pineapple on the pizza
who would ever eat it but not the
binomial fashion and disability is a combination
perfect believe me I am convinced
because for some years I have organized fashion shows
in fashion with girls and models then
professionals also fashions and models with
different disabilities have managed to
realize my dream thanks to
associations that believed in me
thanks to stylists who have decided to
to wear one’s own
even to a girl who maybe did not have
meters but it is sitting but it is beautiful equal vi
I show some pictures
here this is the last show that parade
we have organized and it is already a second one
edition
as you can see there is no dress is
beautiful but above all the smile
of the models and amazing each one then with
its own story
therefore, disability is not contagious
ignorance is the stylists said
so this because because the show
basically it is an excuse is a fact
pretentious behind each of them yes
hides a fantastic story not me
I can tell all but all
I would like to make you just an example like the
story of simona that did not accept the
just body because it is a body here is one
standardized to the aesthetic canons therefore
he does not know he could not accept his
disability was on his body though
when he learns that I had it
choice as a model
she decided to take that long
path of physiotherapy instead of her
he did not accept to do so for me
this was a right way for her
however, improved a lot or
as various to her and mother of a child
wonderful because we also dispel this
myth a disabled woman can become
also mother and when her son is
ashamed of the wheelchair of the
mother in front of the school, however, seeing
the parade on the catwalk
the child went to meet his mother
hugging her and the next day you do not
shame more than the disability of the
mother indeed was proud of it
saying my mother is a model
so there are so many little stories that
but they make me understand that it really is one
right way then to break down the
cliche stereotypes on this catwalk
that I define a catwalk
inclusion where there is no parade
there is fashion elegance and beauty there is also
disability but not only then me
in conclusion I want to say that the theme is
the waves are their own the wave that
that I try to throw with each one
force against these stereotypes e
prejudices
we learn to look at people with
disability with different eyes
we learn not to feel compassion anymore
but only respect without
superficiality because diversity
that of each of us legs crooked o
less disability or less is what there
It makes it unique and different from each
others
and it is a precious value do not believe in the
conformism that wants us all the same
believe instead of normal and try
to have no defects while normal
extraordinary and who has the courage to
accept and love each other in the good and in the
bad
thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
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