Monday, June 28, 2021

Refugees team up with vogue students at Paris upcycling workshop

From old denim fabrics, Afghan refugee Bagher Husseini fashioned a pair of baggy jeans with fringed patches that he hopes might be paraded down a French catwalk later this year.

Husseini has labored with a stitching computer earlier than. He made his strategy to Iran after fleeing combating in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, surviving on a modest tailor's salary.

Now he's involved in a collaboration between French vogue college students and migrants from Afghanistan and the center East. The Reprise task aims to train to p rovide migrants the talents to show second-hand outfits into edgy menswear.

"I have fun with making a choice on different colorations, different types of cloth ... after which making anything special out of them," Husseini spoke of in his native Dari language.

New to his repertoire are jeans, jackets and hats, once in a while impressed by way of common Afghan clothing.

Reprise developed from a rudimentary stitching workshop.

The workshop is based inside a maintaining centre that houses 200 asylum-seekers in a southern Paris suburb.

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

"i love to come back to model. model and (play) cricket," spoke of asylum seeker Imran Hazarbuz, who used to play cricket in his native Afghanistan. "I have no idea which work is more desirable for me, we can see."

The trend college students and social worker's wish to pa y money for expert stitching machines and cloth from style manufacturers. in the event that they are able to velocity up the pace at which apparel objects can also be made, a first assortment could be marketed later this yr.

"The story is there, and the clothes breathe this story," said trend scholar Hugo Castejon-Blanchard.

(REUTERS)

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