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CTV News
15 hours ago
- General
- CTV News
Toronto mom and son returning to Canada after prolonged legal ordeal that began with alleged abduction
North York resident Camila Vilas Boas poses for a photo with her four-year-old son, Valentino. The mother and son are returning to Canada from India on May 29 following a months-long parental abduction situation. (Supplied) It's taken almost five months but a Toronto mother who travelled to northern India earlier this year in search of her abducted son is finally bringing him back to Canada. Tonight, North York resident Camila Vilas Boas and her four-year-old son Valentino will be boarding a Toronto-bound plane in Delhi, India. They're set to arrive at Pearson airport early Thursday morning. Back on Jan. 31, Boas went to India's Chandigarh region after learning that her son was in that area with his father Kapil Sunak. Boas hadn't seen Valentino since July 18, 2024 when he went on a court-sanctioned trip to the south Asian nation with her former spouse. The two failed to return home as expected on Aug. 8, prompting Toronto Police Service (TPS) to issue a warrant last October for Sunak's arrest for abduction by parent/custody order. He is still wanted by police for these charges, TPS told CP24 earlier this week. 'Investigators have advised it is believed Kapil Sunak is still in India at this time. He is not currently in police custody,' they wrote in an email. Fearing that she may never see her child again, Boas took matters into her own hands, gathering resources, and using the power of social media to appeal for information about Valentino's whereabouts, she said. 'To be honest, I didn't put my life on hold, I died,' a tearful Boas said of her decision to go to India and search for her son during a recent interview with CP24. 'Not knowing if my child was alive, if he slept, if he missed mommy, where he was, what he was doing. … I was dead.' Camila and her son Valentino Camila Vilas Boas and her son Valentino are seen in photographs. (CP24) Boas said her efforts led her to pinpoint where Valentino and her ex were in India. She then bought a plane ticket to Chandigarh and after arriving there hired lawyers, who helped her take her former spouse to court for illegal child detention, a charge she says he appealed, albeit unsuccessfully, several times. The first time Boas saw her son since was on Feb. 6 in court in India, she said. Toronto police confirmed to CP24 that Valentino has 'been located and reunited with their mother.' What complicates matters in this case is that India is not a signatory of an international convention that helps to resolve cross-border custody disputes, nor is parental abduction considered a crime there. This means Sunak will not be charged in India for allegedly withholding Valentino from Boas, nor will he face extradition to Canada. Boas told CP24 that on April 22 a judge in Chandigarh's high court ordered Sunak to return Valentino to her and issued an order of repatriation to Canada for Valentino. The day before, however, she said the child's father re-abducted their son, who was recovered after a large-scale police manhunt and surrendered. Kapil Sunak/Valentino Police say Kapil Sunak, 48, (left) failed to return to Canada with his three-year-old son Valentino after a summer trip to India. (Toronto Police Service) Valentino was then placed with his mother under 24/7 police surveillance, however she said fears for her safety and worries that her ex would harm her and take their son were always present. In the meantime, Sunak appealed the court's latest decision and during that process Boas said she and her son were required to surrender their passports until the matter was resolved. 'We're not even allowed by leave the country. We're being detained here in India,' she said during an interview earlier this month with CP24. 'For more than four months, I have basically lived in the court trying to go through this because I am trying to show to the Indian courts that I am the mother and I am the person who has the full custody of the child in Canada, which is the jurisdiction where he was born.' On May 22, India's Supreme Court in Delhi rejected Sunak's appeal clearing the way for Boas come home with her son. 'In that moment, justice spoke. And for the first time in months, I could breathe. … No mother should ever have to survive what I did just to be with her own baby,' she said in a May 27 statement. 'That appeal dismissal wasn't just a legal victory. It was the moment our nightmare ended.' GAC providing 'consular assistance' to family Global Affairs Canada told CP24 that it is aware of the parental abduction of a Canadian child in India but noted that the country is not a signatory to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. 'Consular officials are in contact with local authorities and are providing consular assistance to the family,' spokesperson Louis-Carl Brissette Lesage said in a written statement. 'Due to privacy considerations, no further information can be disclosed.' Resolution of international parental abduction cases can take months, years: group Amanda Pick, the CEO of the Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC), said she's aware of this case, although her organization isn't supporting the affected family directly. Pick said incidences of parental abduction are always complex and become 'much more difficult' when they involved children who have been taken abroad. 'Typically, [they] aren't resolved quickly. Months, even years, is the time frame,' she said, adding even when a country is a Hague Convention signatory, the process to bring a kidnapped child home can be quite lengthy. 'The legalities for countries involved could still lead to months of delays.' Pick added that in many nations, including some that have signed the international treaty, parental abduction is not considered a crime. 'Even if everything is done to demonstrate that a parent has custody back home, there's still red tape. You can do everything right and it's still not upheld in another country,' she said. 'Giving up hope is not an option. I am in constant awe of the families I work with and serve. [They] face overwhelming circumstances.' Pick, who has helmed MCSC for 15 years, said a large part of her work involves advocating for families to get the resources they need, adding one of the major obstacles parents face is accessing support from the Canadian government in a timely and effective way. 'We need a more streamlined process. … The families of missing children need to be supported to navigate the resources that are available to them,' she said, adding even if a case is more complicated there's no excuse. 'The struggle shouldn't be getting the support needed.' Pick noted that cases of parental abduction are not just 'custodial issues,' saying that they have long-term consequences for the wellbeing of the affected child, who is often removed from their home and community for months, even years. 'The focus needs to be on the child and returning [them] to that safe place. That must be the priority,' she said. Boas, meanwhile, added that more assistance from the Canadian government would have been helpful as the situation with her son and former spouse seemed 'endless.' 'I feel the government of Canada left us on our own in a different land with no support for a Canadian child,' she said, adding Chandigarh is also volatile area due to rising tensions between India and Pakistan. 'It was a very, very, very scary situation.' Boas said she's looking forward to the safety and normalcy of life in Canada, and for Valentino to go to school in the fall and play with his friends, all of the things any other child his age should be doing. 'Now, we're finally going home — to rebuild, to heal, and to recover the pieces of the life that was taken from us,' she said. 'It's time for [Valentino] to begin a normal life again.'
NDTV
15 hours ago
- Business
- NDTV
Luxury Brand Valentino Under Italian Court Scanner Over Worker Exploitation
There have been developments that have brought to light concerning labour practices being undertaken at Valentino Bags Lab Srl, which is a branch of the luxury Italian fashion house Valentino. The concern has been under judicial administration for one year followed by an investigation that revealed cases of work force exploitation in their supply chain. A Milan court has found the company failed to monitor suppliers and was driven by profit motives. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Valentino (@maisonvalentino) As per a 30-page court ruling obtained by Reuters, the judicial oversight was ordered after it was unearthed that Valentino Bags Lab failed to monitor and regulate its suppliers. According to the court, this failure was caused due to the pursuit of higher profits which came at the expense of legal and ethical compliances. The resultant administrative period could be lifted before time if the company demonstrates corrective action and aligns practices with the Italian labour laws. This is not the first time such scrutiny has befallen a luxury design house in the recent history. In fact, it is the fourth such case that has been handled by the Milan court in less than two years' time; that details a pattern of supply chain exploitation within luxury fashion labels operating out of Italy. Other brands that have previously been placed under the radar of the court are Dior's Italian division owned by Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey, Giorgio Armani and Alveiro Martini. All of which managed to settle the practices and get early termination of their administration periods. These legal interventions come as a growing effort in Italy to counter labour exploitation in the luxury fashion industry. As the scrutiny intensifies on luxury labels' backend operations, it serves as a warning stating that even the most prestigious brands are not immune to having accountability on the protection of workers' rights.
CTV News
16 hours ago
- General
- CTV News
Toronto mom returning to Canada from India with son after prolonged legal ordeal that began with alleged parental abduction
North York resident Camila Vilas Boas poses for a photo with her four-year-old son, Valentino. The mother and son are returning to Canada from India on May 29 following a months-long parental abduction situation. (Supplied) It's taken almost five months but a Toronto mother who travelled to northern India earlier this year in search of her abducted son is finally bringing him back to Canada. Tonight, North York resident Camila Vilas Boas and her four-year-old son Valentino will be boarding a Toronto-bound plane in Delhi, India. They're set to arrive at Pearson airport early Thursday morning. Back on Jan. 31, Boas went to India's Chandigarh region after learning that her son was in that area with his father Kapil Sunak. Boas hadn't seen Valentino since July 18, 2024 when he went on a court-sanctioned trip to the south Asian nation with her former spouse. The two failed to return home as expected on Aug. 8, prompting Toronto Police Service (TPS) to issue a warrant last October for Sunak's arrest for abduction by parent/custody order. He is still wanted by police for these charges, TPS told CP24 earlier this week. 'Investigators have advised it is believed Kapil Sunak is still in India at this time. He is not currently in police custody,' they wrote in an email. Fearing that she may never see her child again, Boas took matters into her own hands, gathering resources, and using the power of social media to appeal for information about Valentino's whereabouts, she said. 'To be honest, I didn't put my life on hold, I died,' a tearful Boas said of her decision to go to India and search for her son during a recent interview with CP24. 'Not knowing if my child was alive, if he slept, if he missed mommy, where he was, what he was doing. … I was dead.' Camila and her son Valentino Camila Vilas Boas and her son Valentino are seen in photographs. (CP24) Boas said her efforts led her to pinpoint where Valentino and her ex were in India. She then bought a plane ticket to Chandigarh and after arriving there hired lawyers, who helped her take her former spouse to court for illegal child detention, a charge she says he appealed, albeit unsuccessfully, several times. The first time Boas saw her son since was on Feb. 6 in court in India, she said. Toronto police confirmed to CP24 that Valentino has 'been located and reunited with their mother.' What complicates matters in this case is that India is not a signatory of an international convention that helps to resolve cross-border custody disputes, nor is parental abduction considered a crime there. This means Sunak will not be charged in India for allegedly withholding Valentino from Boas, nor will he face extradition to Canada. Boas told CP24 that on April 22 a judge in Chandigarh's high court ordered Sunak to return Valentino to her and issued an order of repatriation to Canada for Valentino. The day before, however, she said the child's father re-abducted their son, who was recovered after a large-scale police manhunt and surrendered. Kapil Sunak/Valentino Police say Kapil Sunak, 48, (left) failed to return to Canada with his three-year-old son Valentino after a summer trip to India. (Toronto Police Service) Valentino was then placed with his mother under 24/7 police surveillance, however she said fears for her safety and worries that her ex would harm her and take their son were always present. In the meantime, Sunak appealed the court's latest decision and during that process Boas said she and her son were required to surrender their passports until the matter was resolved. 'We're not even allowed by leave the country. We're being detained here in India,' she said during an interview earlier this month with CP24. 'For more than four months, I have basically lived in the court trying to go through this because I am trying to show to the Indian courts that I am the mother and I am the person who has the full custody of the child in Canada, which is the jurisdiction where he was born.' On May 22, India's Supreme Court in Delhi rejected Sunak's appeal clearing the way for Boas come home with her son. 'In that moment, justice spoke. And for the first time in months, I could breathe. … No mother should ever have to survive what I did just to be with her own baby,' she said in a May 27 statement. 'That appeal dismissal wasn't just a legal victory. It was the moment our nightmare ended.' GAC providing 'consular assistance' to family Global Affairs Canada told CP24 that it is aware of the parental abduction of a Canadian child in India but noted that the country is not a signatory to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. 'Consular officials are in contact with local authorities and are providing consular assistance to the family,' spokesperson Louis-Carl Brissette Lesage said in a written statement. 'Due to privacy considerations, no further information can be disclosed.' Resolution of international parental abduction cases can take months, years: group Amanda Pick, the CEO of the Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC), said she's aware of this case, although her organization isn't supporting the affected family directly. Pick said incidences of parental abduction are always complex and become 'much more difficult' when they involved children who have been taken abroad. 'Typically, [they] aren't resolved quickly. Months, even years, is the time frame,' she said, adding even when a country is a Hague Convention signatory, the process to bring a kidnapped child home can be quite lengthy. 'The legalities for countries involved could still lead to months of delays.' Pick added that in many nations, including some that have signed the international treaty, parental abduction is not considered a crime. 'Even if everything is done to demonstrate that a parent has custody back home, there's still red tape. You can do everything right and it's still not upheld in another country,' she said. 'Giving up hope is not an option. I am in constant awe of the families I work with and serve. [They] face overwhelming circumstances.' Pick, who has helmed MCSC for 15 years, said a large part of her work involves advocating for families to get the resources they need, adding one of the major obstacles parents face is accessing support from the Canadian government in a timely and effective way. 'We need a more streamlined process. … The families of missing children need to be supported to navigate the resources that are available to them,' she said, adding even if a case is more complicated there's no excuse. 'The struggle shouldn't be getting the support needed.' Pick noted that cases of parental abduction are not just 'custodial issues,' saying that they have long-term consequences for the wellbeing of the affected child, who is often removed from their home and community for months, even years. 'The focus needs to be on the child and returning [them] to that safe place. That must be the priority,' she said. Boas, meanwhile, added that more assistance from the Canadian government would have been helpful as the situation with her son and former spouse seemed 'endless.' 'I feel the government of Canada left us on our own in a different land with no support for a Canadian child,' she said, adding Chandigarh is also volatile area due to rising tensions between India and Pakistan. 'It was a very, very, very scary situation.' Boas said she's looking forward to the safety and normalcy of life in Canada, and for Valentino to go to school in the fall and play with his friends, all of the things any other child his age should be doing. 'Now, we're finally going home — to rebuild, to heal, and to recover the pieces of the life that was taken from us,' she said. 'It's time for [Valentino] to begin a normal life again.'
Vogue Singapore
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue Singapore
Vogue's best looks from the Christian Dior resort 2026 show
'I want to show what I love, what I really love.' So declared Maria Grazia Chiuri before she sent out a heart-felt, nearly all-white celebration of Rome, her birthplace. The women in the audience had been asked to dress in white, and gathered to watch in the spectacular formal gardens of the Villa Albani Torlonia. We were anticipating a crescendo, a grand finale of a show from the homecoming queen of feminist standard-bearing. In fact, what we got from Chiuri was a resort show with a couture collection mixed in with it, for the most part wispily romantic and fragile-seeming. Emphasis on the 'seeming,' that is. To the designer, it was an enactment shot through with autobiographical meaning, cultural nuance—a bit of nonsense frivolity—and historical symbolism. And—she was laughing about this in the tented backstage area beforehand—it was deliberately intended to confuse. La Bella Confusione, a novel set in 1960s Rome was one starting point out of the many she infused into this show and its production. 'A beautiful confusion,' she chuckled. Well, you don't need to spend half a day in Rome to realise how densely, layered and criss-crossed it is with archaeology and history. Chuiri said, in part, that she was drawing attention to the role her city has played in fashion—wrapped up as it is in the Dolce Vita of the fifties, the glamorous heyday of the Cinecittá movie industry, and the glory of Valentino and Fendi, both of whom she worked for. On top of that, she was celebrating the life of the heiress, hostess and patron of the avant-garde arts, Mimi Pecci-Blunt. (Chiuri and her daughter Rachele have just restored her theatre, Teatro di Cometa.) You can see why Chiuri might identify with Mimi. In many ways, over nine years at Dior, she has also been a relentless supporter and ally of women artists, artisans, and performers. On this night, she had local dancers—dressed in white by the Roman movie costumers Toricelli—performing a Commedia dell'Arte-cum-contemporary ballet around the gardens. This, as a reference to Mimi's 'Bal Blanc,' which took place in 1930 in Paris. All guests wore white and were photographed by Man Ray while they posed surreally as historical figures. Which was why we began by looking at four long, slim, beautifully tailored double-faced cashmere ensembles—one of them a trouser suit and tailcoat. 'These are haute couture,' she said. 'You can only make these by hand. Some of the simplest things are the most difficult to make.' This ideal, minimalist yet sumptuous simplicity was followed by many variations on the theme of the long, slim, semi-sheer dress. The lace effects were almost countless—3D florals, rivulets of ruffles, leafy cut-outs, wavy art deco frills, gilded latticework covered with silken fringe—and more, and more. Underwear visible, shoes flat. This, surely, was Chiuri staking claim to the look she has coined at Dior; her contribution over nearly a decade to the history of the house. But within this, there was yet more to be drawn out. One dress in particular, number 63, used an almost transparent curly ruffled technique that looked like a salute to her old employer Valentino Garavani—and his breakthrough White Collection from 1968. And then, there was her Vatican Conclave moment. It came very obviously in a short, black, red-buttoned cardinal's coat; and maybe not so obviously, but definitely when you look twice—in the vestment-like white shirts with deep lace hems. As it happens, Chiuri added, her heroine Mimi had a Pope as an uncle. More strange, blurry connections. But she had a more serious observation to make about the significance of Mimi's life. 'She was working during World War II. It was a terrible moment, and she was obsessed—in any case—[with] organising concerts, performances within theatre, exhibitions for art. Monsieur Dior had a gallery in Paris during that time, too,' she added. 'They had hope in their hearts for the future. I think that is what art is: it gives hope in the future.' You wondered, at the end, at the beauty of her liquid gold velvet goddess dresses and the trompe l'oeil caviar beading which superimposed statue-like drapery on two dresses. The simplicity of the peplos has been another of Maria Grazia's obsessions over the years—a point on which she has veered very much on her own path and away from the corseted Christian Dior template. There was only one moment when there was any suggestion of an encased torso, and that she saved for last. Not a corset, but armour. She was a Roman woman centurion, striding forward. Paolo Lanzi 1 / 12 Look 1 Paolo Lanzi 2 / 12 Look 5 Paolo Lanzi 3 / 12 Look 6 Paolo Lanzi 4 / 12 Look 7 Paolo Lanzi 5 / 12 Look 16 Paolo Lanzi 6 / 12 Look 24 Paolo Lanzi 7 / 12 Look 26 Paolo Lanzi 8 / 12 Look 47 Paolo Lanzi 9 / 12 Look 48 Paolo Lanzi 10 / 12 Look 54 Paolo Lanzi 11 / 12 Look 71 Paolo Lanzi 12 / 12 Look 80 This story was originally published on Vogue .com
Time of India
19 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Valentino bags under fire: Italian court probes worker exploitation in luxury supply chain
In a significant development that continues to expose troubling labour practices within Italy's luxury fashion sector, a Milan court has placed Valentino Bags Lab Srl, a unit of the renowned Italian fashion house Valentino, under judicial administration for one year. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The decision follows an investigation that revealed serious cases of worker exploitation within the company's supply chain. According to a 30-page court ruling obtained by Reuters, the judicial oversight was ordered after it was found that Valentino Bags Lab 'culpably failed' to monitor and regulate its suppliers adequately. The court stated that this failure was driven by the pursuit of higher profits at the expense of legal and ethical compliance. The administration period could be lifted early if the company demonstrates substantial corrective action and aligns its practices with Italy's labour laws. Valentino Bags Lab is responsible for the production of handbags and travel accessories bearing the Valentino brand name. Although Valentino could not immediately be reached for comment, the ruling places renewed scrutiny on the luxury fashion house, which partly came under French ownership last year. In 2023, French fashion conglomerate Kering acquired a 30% stake in Valentino from Qatari investment fund Mayhoola, with an option to take full control of the brand by 2028. This is the fourth such case handled by the same Milan court in less than two years, underscoring a pattern of supply chain malpractice within prestigious fashion labels operating in Italy. Previously, the court had placed other high-profile companies under judicial supervision for similar issues, including Dior's Italian division (owned by LVMH), Giorgio Armani, and the handbag brand Alviero Martini. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Notably, all three companies managed to reform their practices swiftly, leading to early termination of their administration periods. These legal interventions are part of a growing effort in Italy to confront labour exploitation in sectors closely tied to its global reputation, particularly luxury fashion. Judicial administrators appointed in such cases are tasked with helping companies restructure their supply chain operations to ensure compliance with ethical and legal standards. As scrutiny intensifies on the back-end operations of luxury brands, this ruling serves as a clear warning: even the most prestigious names are not immune from accountability when it comes to protecting workers' rights.
