HANDMADE - Fashion Made in Mali - Fashion Africa Voices Series

Malian Designer Awa Meite shares insights into the untold fashion story in Mali for our Fashion Africa Voices interview.

She highlights how studying in the USA made her decide to come back to Mali and to combat comments from her lecturers, she chose to travel in her own country by bus, stay two months in a village where women made baskets and eventually set up her own label and business.

Awa of www.AwaMeite.com believes "cotton is the ink" in the story of Mali and working with local people in the villages where they accept you for what you have or who you were, caused her to explore the handmade economy of Mali's textile industry.

But she also shares the reality of getting started in this country where she worked with the artisans. Her insights into textiles from the region continues to draw her and what may inspire any African Fashion Entrepreneur to also set up and start a business in Mali

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Gain crucial INSIDER INSIGHTS of how local sourced African cotton and handwoven cloth can be a game changer for differentiating your African fashion business as she breaks down what it is like to work IN MALi's TEXTILE INDUSTRY.

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