PARIS – Kering has tapped Malika Fabre to create a piece of art in honor of International Women’s Day, on March 8.
The French luxury house has since 2019 annually been giving a female artist carte blanche to design a work to mark the day. Each is meant to reflect the hashtag #NotJustToday.
Fabre, who works regularly with publications such as The New Yorker and Vogue, uses two-dimensional blocks of color, and plays with positive and negative spaces in her art. The French national graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art de Paris, then moved to London and now lives and works in Barcelona.
In her design for Kering, featuring a bold indigo hue, women are shown in various poses. They seem to be meeting, embracing, talking and pondering. At the far right, the silhouette of a white dove taking flight appears. Kering in a statement called it “a reminder that women’s rights are the result of perpetual endeavor towards a symbolic peace.”
A detail from Malika Fabre’s artwork made for Kering for International Women’s Day.
Courtesy of Kering
“Celebrating International Women’s Day is as important as ever in 2025,” said Favre, in the statement. “Though we have made incredible progress over the past decade, we are still far from living in a world of equals.
“Today is about celebrating us – our strength, resilience and, most importantly, our profound sense of sorority – something I have experienced firsthand throughout my life and career as an artist,” she continued. “Here’s to us, today and every day.”
Kering’s longstanding pledge to women is three-pronged, including Empowering Women, an internal policy that upskills women internationally; the Women in Motion program, which shines a light on women in culture and the arts, and the Kering Foundation, focused on building a violence-free world for women and children.
Recent artists to have been given freedom to create artwork for Kering for International Women’s Day include Catherine Meurisse in 2024, Lou Doillon in 2023, Charlotte Le Bon in 2022 and Soledad Bravi in 2019.
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