A report on Italian fashion

Valentino's international debut took place in 1962 in Florence, the Italian fashion capital of the time.

Stella Jean has built the business model and sustainable development platform entitled “Laboratorio delle Nazioni." It focuses on what occurs when fashion becomes a tool for cooperative international development.Through missions on the field, each SJ collection is the result of the construction of a cultural bridge between Italian design and the women artisans of a developing country during each different season.An international cooperation between Jean's aesthetic and the artisans of developing countries is an ever present staple of her designs, which aim to promote cultural heritage as an enabler and a driver of sustainable development. Despite the thousands of miles of distance that may lie between them, countless hands of women artisans in different countries work together in an ideal Laboratory of Nations, with the common goal of caring and preserving an endangered global cultural heritage.

Further topics were treated in the following collections on Italian literature and cinema (Letteratura e cinema, 2014), Italian fashion (Moda Made in Italy, 2016), the Sicilian classical writer Giovanni Verga (Verga innovatore / Innovative Verga, 2017), the history of Italian migration in postmodern times (Italia transculturale, 2018), and the transdisciplinary principle of polyphony in the Italian history of music (Polifonia musicale, 2020).