Stella Jean (; born 1979) is an Italian fashion designer who lives and works in Rome, and who is considered to be Giorgio Armani's protégé. Jean's work often merges classical Italian tailoring with African and Caribbean themes and imagery from Haiti, in a cultural fusion of her own identity.Jean was born and raised in Rome to a Haitian mother, Violette Jean, and an Italian father, Marcello Novarino in 1979. She studied political science at Sapienza University of Rome, before dropping out to model for Egon von Fürstenberg, fashion designer and ex-husband of Diane von Fürstenberg. It is here where she realized that she would rather make the clothes than wear them. Wikipedia