Stella Jean Spring Summer 2023 at Milan Fashion Week

The Spring Summer 2023 displays a cultural corridor constructed through international cooperation with artisans from Madagascar, who created the first raffia sweatshirts using nothing other than native raffia and crochet needles.

When it comes to sustainability, rather than looking for solutions in classrooms and laboratories, we should invest in learning from the best. Undoubtedly, the best are those who may have never heard of the term ‘circularity,’ but who have always practiced it, whether out of necessity, tradition, or ancestral ways of life that are also treasures.

This international cooperation could not help but start from Stella’s homeland. The same Umbrian artisans with whom she made her first collection once again crafted masterpieces for this one, employing orange cotton crochet paired with prominent hand-painted borders and embroidered zebras.

In both Madagascar and Italy, these women do not hold positions in fashion diversity offices, but they tell a rich story about the true face of their countries through their work, passion and sacrifice.

Supporting these fighters of free will, which characterizes the artisan’s existence and resistance, means preserving a common cultural heritage.

The bourgeois partisan spirit vibrates in an activist cultural pluralism.