Stella
A Fashion Designer
A Bridge Builder
Stella Jean, born to an Italian father and Haitian mother, is recognized as the first Black Italian designer Made in Italy and the first Afro-descendant member of the Italian Fashion Chamber since its foundation in 1958. Her work fuses multicultural influences with classical Italian tailoring, creating a globally minded, ethical aesthetic. She remains the only Black Italian designer in the Milan Fashion Week SS26 show calendar.
In 2011, Stella was awarded the prestigious “Who Is On Next?” prize in Rome (Vogue Italia).
In 2013, Giorgio Armani selected her as the first womenswear designer to present a collection at Milano Fashion Week inside his iconic Armani/Teatro, marking her absolute debut on the Milan runway — a debut that earned her the designation of Armani’s protégé in the fashion press.
Through her sustainable development platform, Laboratorio delle Nazioni, Stella Jean co-creates with women artisans and designers in vulnerable communities, turning endangered cultural heritage into contemporary collections while promoting international cooperation and sustainable development. Past missions include Peru, Haiti, Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali, Pakistan, and other countries across South America, Africa, and Asia. Her work supports women-led enterprises, protects the environment, and revives ancestral techniques, unlocking the potential of local raw materials and laying new foundations for a regenerative, homegrown economy — a living example of purposeful, collaborative action with global impact
Her work has been recognized internationally:
- Finalist, LVMH Prize (2014)
- Included in BOF 500 – People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry (2014)
- Speaker at the Palace of the United Nations on the “Power of Empowered Women” panel, presenting garments for the UN ethical fashion program and the Fashion 4 Development project (UN Millennium Development Goals)
- Collections exhibited at Victoria & Albert Museum (London) and FIT Museum(New York)
- Designs worn by Rihanna, Beyoncé, Zendaya, Viola Davis, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Selena Gomez, and Issa Rae
- Appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador (2021) for work with UN Mountain Partnership women artisans
She collaborated with Max Mara Group, Benetton, and Loboutin.
- Included in WWD 50 Most Powerful Women (2021)
- Designer of the Year, Apollo Theatre – Harlem Fashion Row (2023)
- Designed official uniforms for Team Haiti at the Paris 2024 Olympics, acclaimed by international media, with The New York Times awarding the “gold medal” for design excellence
- Best Practice in Design for the Future, EXPO Osaka (2025)
Our Mission
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Roman by way of an Italian father with a Haitian mother.
I represent an intersecting point between two seemingly opposite cultures.
It is a cultural distillate, and a cross-border fertilization project, that I narrate through fashion, which I understand to be a tool and not solely an aesthetic landing point.
Fashion it is a powerful international megaphone that allows beauty to make a pathway in the viewer, a pathway that, for me, transforms into a channel of integrationist contamination.
A collection is more than the sum of its garments; clothes can speak louder and in a more incisive manner than many words, somehow managing to ignite cultural fabric.
Muticulturalism is the gateway to social development.
The meeting of cultures, and the relative inclusiveness, is an irreversible choice to this very day. The point at which we could decide whether or not to deal with others different from us has already passed; the others are already part of us.
I am an example.
And I think it is clear I am irreversible.