Joyas XXL
Este 2024, las joyas gigantescas son una tendencia de moda global, en la Feria de Abril de Sevilla también. La diseñadora Carmen Marcos, fundadora de CCM Complementos, tiene las claves: "además de los chokers, que son los reyes en Instagram, también vamos a ver pendientes que cuelgan y caen sobre los hombros con cierto aire vintage y creaciones con formas florales. Piezas que además, una vez pasada la feria, pueden utilizarse sin miedo en otros eventos".
Uno de los símbolos de la indumentaria tradicional de flamenca son los volantes y sí, se pueden lucir sin necesidad de enfundarse en un traje. "Por supuesto, para ir a la feria, un vestido midi con volantes o unos pantalones con volantes, funcionan fenomenal. Los volantes llevan varios años saliendo del propio traje de flamenca para dar más personalidad a diseños de fiesta y este 2024, los hemos propuesto en nuestros vestidos de invitada junto a tejidos con estampados propios, bien con lunares o bien con combinaciones de colores vibrantes", explica Carmen Fitz.
The number of children crossing has also soared
According to Diana Romero, emergency specialist at UNICEF Panamá, one in five migrants crossing the Darién is a child – half of them under the age of five. Although there are no accurate figures, there are many reports of children dying during the trek. The number of unaccompanied children is of particular concern. In 2022, UNICEF assisted about 1,000 unaccompanied minors, but in 2023 that figure reached 3,300. Of those, 67% were teenagers, 21% children aged between 6 and 12, and of the rest, 10% are babies, Romero said. Often, younger children get separated from their relatives during the trek only managing to reunite later on. According to Francisco Pulido, Plan International´s director of humanitarian action and stabilisation in Colombia, teenagers tend to travel in friend groups – often motivated by misinformation shared on social media. In other cases, the entire family cannot afford to continue the trek so parents leave their children in camps, hoping to send them money to follow on later.
Most of the medical cases that aid organisations come across and treat are related to the dangers of the jungle itself, or due to the lack of access to clean water and food en route. There’s no data available, but humanitarian groups say there has also been a rising number of migrants travelling with pre-existing chronic conditions – psychiatric disorders, diabetes, hypertension, or asthma. These people often require emergency assistance because their medications get lost or stolen.