Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Grand designs: the refugees in Paris with an eye on trend

by using Michaela Cabrera

PARIS, June 15 (Reuters) - From historical denim fabric, Afghan refugee Bagher Husseini usual a pair of saggy jeans with fringed patches that he hopes can be paraded down a French catwalk later this yr.

Husseini has worked with a stitching computing device earlier than. He made his approach to Iran after fleeing fighting in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, surviving on a modest tailor's income.

Now he's worried in a collaboration between French trend students and migrants from Afghanistan and the center East. The Reprise venture goals to coach to supply migrants the capabilities to turn second-hand clothes into edgy menswear.

"I take pleasure in settling on distinct colorations, several types of textile ... after which making some thing special out of them," Husseini mentioned in his native Dari language.

New to his repertoire are jeans, jackets and hats, from time to time impressed via normal Afghan clothing.

Reprise developed from a rudimentary stitching workshop.

The workshop is based mostly inside a protecting core that residences 200 asylum-seekers in a southern Paris suburb.

a couple of times every week, a gaggle of asylum seekers be part of the workshop, honing new talents in embroidery, crocheting, and modeling.

"i admire to come back to mannequin. mannequin and (play) cricket," mentioned asylum seeker Imran Hazarbuz, who used to play cricket in his native Afghanistan. "I do not know which work is greater for me, we can see."

The style college students and social workers wish to get hold of knowledgeable stitching machines and material from trend manufacturers. in the event that they are capable of speed up the tempo at which apparel objects can be made, a primary assortment could be marketed later this 12 months.

"The story is there, and the clothes breathe this story," noted trend student Hugo Castejon-Blanchard. (Reporting by way of Michaela Cabrera; editing by means of Richard Lough and Mike Collett-White)

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