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Stella Jean cancels Milan Fashion Week for lack of diversity and support

Milan Fashion Week’s press conference ahead of its womenswear catwalk season was mired in controversy after designer Stella Jean said she would not show after funding from Italy’s fashion chamber, Camera della Moda (CNMI), was stopped after four seasons. Ms Jean, one of the driving forces of the We Are Made in Italy (WAMI) collective, which...

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Video: How the Black Lives Matter movement is changing Italian fashion industry

Italian-Haitian designer, Stella Jean sits down with Imran Amed to help paint a picture on how fashion can achieve better racial equity for black professionals in fashion. In this 55-minute conversation, the two discuss how the Black Lives Matter movement has ignited change in the fashion industry in their individual countries. Jean gives her...

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Dolce & Gabbana unveil tropically-tinted collection at MFW

It was coconuts all round as Dolce & Gabbana unveiled a tropically-tinted collection for next spring and summer with a typically joyful show in Milan on Sunday. At a time when all the talk is of the action on the street outside becoming more important than what goes on the catwalk, the Sicilian duo took the logical step of bringing...

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Lia Samantha: Using Fashion to Counter Racism in Colombia

When looking at fashion emerging from Latin-America today, traditional African prints, with vivid reds, magentas, emeralds and blue may not spring to mind straight away. But it is these contrasting and bold colours that are at the center of Lia Samantha Lozano Rendón collections, a rising singer/designer whose designs are increasingly in demand...

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Haiti artisans embrace ethical fashion

Diameter, width, thickness -- nothing is left to chance as Brazilian jewelry designer Ana Suassuna trains Haitian artisans how to shape cow horns into fashionable bracelets. As sanders whir in the background, Suassuna surveys the work being done in a small studio in the heart of bustling Port-au-Prince. "They know better than me how to work with...

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Milan Fashion Week: From Gucci to Armani

Even those who have little knowledge about the fashion industry were unable to miss the walking balls of fur that took to the catwalk last week during Milan Fashion Week. Created by Alessandro Michele, the new head designer for Gucci, the furry shoes immediately caught the industry's attention which led to many raised eyebrows. Armani was also...

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Stella Jean electrifies Milan Fashion Week

She's electrified Milan fashion week with her bold Caribbean-influenced designs, but Stella Jean is not trying to break into Italy's magic circle of exclusive brands, she wants to transform the industry. The 34-year old, born to a Haitian mother and Italian father, unveiled her Himalayas-themed autumn/winter 2015 collection Wednesday in a...

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Black is back as Milan Fashion Week revs up

Forget rainbow knits and ruby galoshes. All the signs are that black is back in a big way as Milan fashion week kicks off on Wednesday. After Gothic trends dominated catwalk shows in New York and London, all eyes now turn to Italy to see if the likes of Prada, Gucci and Armani embrace the vampiric garlic-and-stake look for next winter's...

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Gucci takes audience on 70s trip during MFW

Gucci took its audience on a mind-expanding trip back to the early 1970s on Wednesday as the global style powerhouse unveiled its 2015 Spring/Summer womenswear collection. Skirts were cut above the knee, or shorter, whilst prints had a slight psychedelic edge to them and therewas a bit of a nautical/pirate theme running through a set that...

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Runaways to runway: 'ethical' fashion changing lives of Africa's poor

The muddy streets of Kenya's crowded Korogocho slums are a far cry from the fashion boutiques of Paris, Milan, New York or London. But beneath a tin roof, workers from some of the country's poorest communities sew buttons and stitch cloth for top international designers, part of anot-for-profit "ethical fashion" project. "Before Ethical Fashion,...