“We made it!” cheer the five designers who opened Milan Fashion Week in a new showcase of BIPOC talent. Sheetal Shah, Nyny Ryke Goungou, Romy Calzado Celda, Zineb Hazim, and Judith Saint Germain are Italian-based designers of color who took part in the Fab 5, Non Siamo una Moda—“Fab 5, We Are Not Just a Trend”—digital runway presentation, directed by Italian-Angolan writer-director Antonio Dikele Distefano and created by We Are Made in Italy, an organization founded by designer Stella Jean, Edward Buchanan, and Michelle Francine Ngonmo.
“This project is a representation of diversity,” says Shah in the latest episode of Good Morning Vogue, hosted in Milan by Italian Vogue’s Francesca Ragazzi. “You know there is a lack of diversity in Italian designers, so it was a very interesting chance for me to come up and show my collection.”
Each designer’s collection, from Saint Germain’s accessories that draw on Haitian culture for Uncharted to Shah’s inventive new uses of denim inspired by her Indian heritage for her brand, Breaking Identities, fuses Italian style with a global perspective. Moroccan-Italian designer Hazim finds inspiration in the Arabic women rising to power in the business world; Cuban-Italian designer Celda is breaking the boundaries of science and fashion with her antiviral materials; and Togolese-Italian Goungou has designed her own stretch kente fabric that updates the traditional Yoruba material.
Watch the designers spend a day in Milan with Good Morning Vogue and receive an exciting surprise at the episode’s end.
Host:
Francesca Ragazzi
Featuring:
Judith Saint Germain
Sheetal Shah
Nyny Ryke Goungou
Romy Calzado Celda
Zineb Hazim
Executive Producer: Liv Proctor
Service Production Company: Olympìque Films
Executive Producer: Tommaso Fajdiga
Producer: Elisabetta Zecca
Director: Filippo Castellano
DP: Leonardo Castellano
1st AC: Riccardo Virgili
2nd AC: Martina Amoruso
Sound Engineer: Jonathan Stilo
Runner: Mattia Ferrero
COVID Manager: Riccardo Marcolin
HMU: Chiara Fedi e Valentina Achilli
Post Producer: Cecilia Terenzoni
Editor: Andrea Paganini
Location:
Frame Condé Nast Experience Store
VP, Digital Video Programming & Development, Vogue: Robert Semmer
Creative Editorial Director: Mark Guiducci
Postproduction Supervisor: Marco Glinbizzi
Line Producer: Jessica Schier
Production Manager: Edith Pauccar