From ancient denim fabric, Afghan refugee Bagher Husseini customary a pair of baggy jeans with fringed patches that he hopes can be paraded down a French catwalk later this 12 months.
Husseini has labored with a stitching laptop earlier than. He made his method to Iran after fleeing fighting in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, surviving on a modest tailor's revenue.
Now he's concerned in a collaboration between French style college students and migrants from Afghanistan and the core East. The Reprise undertaking goals to teach to supply migrants the abilities to show 2nd-hand clothes into edgy menswear.
"I appreciate deciding on distinctive colours, various kinds of material… after which making some thing special out of them," Husseini referred to in his native Dari language.
New to his repertoire are denims, jackets, and hats, occasionally impressed with the aid of average Afghan clothing.
Reprise evolved from a rudimentary stitching workshop.
The workshop is based internal a retaining center that houses 200 asylum-seekers in a southern Paris suburb.
a few times every week, a group of asylum seekers joins the workshop, honing new expertise in embroidery, crocheting, and modeling.
"i love to come back to mannequin. model and (play) cricket," stated asylum seeker Imran Hazarbuz, who used to play cricket in his native Afghanistan. "I don't be aware of which work is more desirable for me, we are able to see."
vogue college students and social workers are looking to pay money for professional sewing machines and cloth from fashion brands. in the event that they are able to speed up the tempo at which apparel items can also be made, a primary collection may be marketed later this year.
"The story is there, and the clothes breathe this story," observed vogue scholar Hugo Castejon-Blanchard.
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