SANSOVINO6 And WAMI By Stella Jean In Milano Fashion Week

Milan

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October 1st, 2022

SANSOVINO6 by Edward Buchanan, The collection was presented at the Milano Fashion Week for the SS/23 season.

SANSOVINO6 capsule is a study of the brands unique knitwear archive dating back to 2009. 10 looks have been articulated mixing various seasons focusing on the history of the brands study of knitted indigo and jersey. The transversal style and language has been updated with new upcycled pieces using vintage.

Photography: SGP

WAMI

The largest and sole national collective and incubator comprised of multicultural Made in Italy leaded by Stella Jean. Milano Fashion Week First Black Made in Italy live fashion show in the history of MFW. Exactly two years ago in 2020, Stella Jean took a firm stance and stated she would not return to Milan Fashion Week until she was no longer the only Black Made in Italy designer on the official MFW schedule. Since then, one has become WAMI -We Are Made in Italy.

Today WAMI has all designers hailing from migratory backgrounds, representing and working toward the substantial multicultural transition of the Italian fashion sector with an acute focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. For the very first time during Milan Fashion Week, a LIVE fashion show featuring the largest number ever of representatives from Black Made in Italy on the same catwalk will take place. A story of active social awareness that has now elevated to a system. The show will be opened and closed by Stella Jean and Edward Buchanan, as the first pioneers of Black Made in Italy, proudly serve as mentors to the Talent of WAMI, who have been scouted by Michelle Ngonm.

STELLA JEAN

The Spring Summer 2023 collection 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."

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.

Photography: SGC