The only Black designer on Italy’s fashion council has withdrawn from this month’s Milan Fashion Week, citing a lack of commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Stella Jean also declared a hunger strike on Wednesday, fearing that other minority designers associated with her will face backlash.

Stella Jean told The Associated Press that the Italian National Fashion Chamber had greatly reduced financial support for the We Are Made in Italy collective of young designers of colour working in Italy after she delivered an impassioned speech about the personal price she had paid for highlighting racial injustice in Italy during a runway show last September.