Good Morning Vogue Meets the Fab 5 Italian Designers Changing the Face of Fashion

Meet the women 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.

“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

This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Vogue