Designer

Here is a picture of the Haitian fashion designer Paola Mathe who has created the website Fanm Djanm. For relatively a short period of time, she has been gaining fame with her fashionable, statement-making headwraps.

Haitian designer Paola Mathe wants to empower women and named her business Fanm Djanm, i.e. Strong Woman. She is doing so well after a year in business she is now designing jewelry and clothes.

Her brainchild has been an all-purpose headwrap. The headwrap can be used as a neckerchief, a belt, even a shirt.

Initially, women resisted buying headwraps because they associated it with lower-class women. But the headwraps took off and women are now saying ". . . I need at least five . . ."

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Here is a picture of the the superstar Beyonce wearing a $302 Multi Euprotto Skirt with a $229 Oversized T-Shirt. In addition, she has a $639 floral embellished leather sandals. All designed by Haitian designer Stella Jean.

High-fashion pop star Beyonce has given the nod to Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean by sporting two of her creations in public just days apart.

On one occasion Beyonce chose an Abuelo-style out-sized t-shirt she paired with a skirt imprinted with a tropical fruit pattern. She added a pair of Stella Jean leather sandals with a floral design.

Stella Jean's casual design styles reflect the meeting of her Haitian and Italian heritage.

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Here is Donna Karan as she intends to team up with Parsons to create new design school in Haiti

Donna Karan, or "DK", is an American fashion designer and the creator of the "DKNY" clothing labels (Donna Karan New York). She was deeply impressed by the inherent natural craftsmanship of Haitians when she first visited Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Instead of seeing the country's devastation, Donna saw Haiti's potential through the eyes of creativity. She felt it was really important to give them something so that they can help them with their enormous artisan talents and she decided to create a holistic community--a community which will be created through the preservation own culture and native art using indigenous resources like tobacco leaves, metal works, stone, etc. Donna Karan has teamed up with 'Parsons the New School for Design' from Manhattan to train Haitian artisans through the Urban Zen foundation by providing models of sustainable commerce through DOT or "The Design, Organization, Training Center" for emerging artists in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Designer, Giorgio Armani, has chosen Haitian-Italian designer, Stella Jean, to show her Fall 2014 collection at Armani's salon, Armani Teatro. Jean has been selected for her beautifully constructed ethnic-influenced prints. An award given by fashion magazine, Vogue Italia, to her for originality brought her to Armani's attention.

She will show during Fall Milan Fashion Week. She expresses gratitude to Armani he has selected her as the first women's wear designer to show at Armani Teatro.

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