Sacred threads: Fashion meets traditional embroidery in Lebanon's refugee camps
British-Swiss fashion designer Larissa Von Planta's upcycling project is supporting Lebanon's most vulnerable The fashion collaboration is helping build livelihoods for women living in camps (Larissa Von Planta/Mohamad Elasaar/ MEE) By Published date: 21 January 2021 10:45 UTC | Last update: 2 months 1 week ago In a small studio in the heart of Beirut's crowded Bourj al-Barajneh camp, more than two dozen women from the Al Sama NGO crouch over their whirring sewing machines, embroidering clothes destined for a global market, as part o...
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