Priya Ahluwalia Styles our Hearts Away in Upcycled Clothing- London.
Priya Ahluwalia; Londoner by birth with an Indian mother and Nigerian father, fashion entrepreneur and completely exuberant, added to her already inspiring reputation in the fashion world today by reminding the world just how relevant upcycled fashion will always be in the fashion industry. When we heard tales of her long body of textile waste research at the Westminster University last year, we expected to be impressed, but not too impressed to have us speechless. A discovery in the streets of Lagos, far back in Nigeria; her fatherland, of the numerous dumping of western-used sportswear sprang this great quest. But of course it was supported by a second discovery in her motherland abou the existence of a method of systematic discrimination known as 'Panipat'. Those words Panipat, meaning a 'cast-off city', was used to describe such a place where […]
