Meet the Talented Black Designers Who Made History at Milan Fashion Week
Last February, when Milan Fashion Week purveyor Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana partnered with Tamu McPherson to spotlight Italian creatives of color, Stella Jean then the only Black designer featured on the calendar pulled back from showing her collection. For Jean, it was an act of voicing her justifiable frustration with the fashion industry s lack of representation, as well as an effort to bring awareness to a series of hate crimes throughout Italy. She quickly took action by teaming up with the Italian Office Against Racial Discrimination to launch a social media campaign and corresponding lookbook,
A Black-Italian designer aims to change Italy’s fashion industry
A Black-Italian designer aims to change Italy’s fashion industry Monday 01/03/2021
Fashion designer Stella Jean wears a face mask to stop the spread of COVID-19 as she holds fabrics during an interview with the Associated Press, in Rome, on Wednesday, February 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Stella Jean is a Haitian-Italian clothes designer who is trying to change the Italian fashion industry by working with African designers.
She is showing her designs during Milan Fashion Week, a seasonal event in Italy’s northern culture center of Milan. The current show lasts until March 4.
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A digital runway show by five Italian fashion designers of African origin opened Milan Fashion Week, one tangible result of a campaign launched last summer by the only Black Italian designer belonging to the Milan fashion chamber.