This Friday, the Olympic Opening Ceremony will transform into a global runway of cultures, as leading designer brands look to showcase their style on the world’s biggest sporting stage.

Fashion designers worldwide are preparing their national team uniforms for their moment in the spotlight. In high-end Olympic fashion, especially for the opening ceremonies, all runways lead to Paris, Caspian Energy Media reports with reference to “euronews”.

Stella Jean will be there, styling each of Haiti’s dozen or so athletes herself. Jean, an Italian-Haitian designer based in Rome, figures she has exactly two seconds, on opening ceremony night, to make an impression on the world - an impression that may reverberate for years.