Italo-Haitian fashion designer Stella Jean presented today at AltaRoma some of her SS 2015 creations during the fashion show Beat of Africa, organized by AltaRoma and International Trade Centre Ethical Fashion Initiative.
Stella Jean, together with the designers Duaba Serwa, Mina Evans and Lisa Folawiyo involved in the project, showed some of her exclusive creation for men and women.
The SS 2015 collection presented by Stella Jean at AltaRomaAltaModa is characterized by a perpetual succession of cultural trompe-l'oeil: fabrics and combinations define new narrative landscapes outlining an unprecedented aesthetic where fashion (ethical fashion) becomes a spokesperson. The 10 looks for this Spring/Summer, made with hand-loom fabrics produced in Burkina Faso and with the Bogolan (handmade Malian cotton fabric traditionally dyed with fermented mud), will be presented together with a line of accessories that are a tribute to the naïve Haitian culture. The jewelry, made in Haiti, and the bags, in Burkina and Bogolan fabric and assembled in Kenya, outline the characteristics of a styling focused on the importance and the inherent richness of artisanal production by different communities, for a collection that is pioneer of a needed historical/cultural counter-colonization.
Ethical Fashion Initiative is a project focusing on social responsibility, a joint effort between Altaroma and the International Trade Centre, the technical cooperation agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. Ethical Fashion’s aim is to stimulate production and promote ethical consumption to help reduce the levels of extreme poverty in disadvantaged communities of the Third World.
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