⁍ Black designers presented collections at Milan’s fashion week in a show aimed at raising awareness of the lack of diversity in the industry.
⁍ The five designers are part of the Black Lives Matter in Italian Fashion group.
⁍ The event was one of the virtual shows of the first fashion week since the coronavirus pandemic.
– Black designers took to the catwalks of Milan’s fashion week this week in a protest against racism in the fashion industry, Reuters reports. “In Italy we have a racial problem and if we don’t start opening the wound in order to heal it, the wound will never heal,” saysHaitian Stella Jean, the only black member of the Italian fashion council. “Made in Italy was represented around the world as being a white concept, now it is no longer like this,” Jean says. “The new Italy is not this and does not want to be this.” The Black Lives Matter in Italian Fashion group mentored five black designers: Fabiola Manirakiza, Mokodu Fall, Claudia Gisele Ntsama, Karim Daoudi, and Joy Meribe.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fashion-milan-black-lives-matter/black-designers-celebrated-at-milan-fashion-week-idUSKBN26J1U5