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Milan Fashion Week hears calls for more designer diversity

Indian fashion designer Neha Poorswani show a creation for 'Runway Reinveted', part of the 'We Are Made in Italy' collecting fashion event are shown during the women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever, abuzz with new creative directors of color at such storied houses as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and marking the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year haitus. But Jean and other industry insiders behind a two-year campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Creations for 'Runway Reinvented', part of the 'We Are Made in Italy' collecting fashion event are shown during the women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever, abuzz with new creative directors of color at such storied houses as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and marking the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year haitus. But Jean and other industry insiders behind a two-year campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Indian fashion designer Neha Poorswani show a creation for 'Runway Reinveted', part of the 'We Are Made in Italy' collecting fashion event are shown during the women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever, abuzz with new creative directors of color at such storied houses as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and marking the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year haitus. But Jean and other industry insiders behind a two-year campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Creations, part of the 'We Are Made in Italy' collecting fashion event are shown during the women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever, abuzz with new creative directors of color at such storied houses as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and marking the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year haitus. But Jean and other industry insiders behind a two-year campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Creations, part of the 'We Are Made in Italy' collecting fashion event are shown during the women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever, abuzz with new creative directors of color at such storied houses as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and marking the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year haitus. But Jean and other industry insiders behind a two-year campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Indian fashion designer Neha Poorswani show a creation, part of the 'We Are Made in Italy' collecting fashion event are shown during the women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever, abuzz with new creative directors of color at such storied houses as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and marking the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year haitus. But Jean and other industry insiders behind a two-year campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Designer Stella Jean accepts applause at the end of her womens Spring/Summer 2018/19 fashion collection, presented in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever, abuzz with new creative directors of color at such storied houses as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and marking the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year haitus. But Jean and other industry insiders behind a two-year campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Designer Stella Jean accepts applause at the end of her womens Spring/Summer 2018/19 fashion collection, presented in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever, abuzz with new creative directors of color at such storied houses as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and marking the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year haitus. But Jean and other industry insiders behind a two-year campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Creations, part of the 'We Are Made in Italy' collecting fashion event are shown during the women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever, abuzz with new creative directors of color at such storied houses as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and marking the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year haitus. But Jean and other industry insiders behind a two-year campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) Creations, part of the 'We Are Made in Italy' collecting fashion event are shown during the women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion week, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever, abuzz with new creative directors of color at such storied houses as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and marking the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year haitus. But Jean and other industry insiders behind a two-year campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)