| Paris Fashion: Tea dress, scarf or tunic?
Michèle and Olivier Chatenet built their new E2 collection on vintage silk scarves transformed into a series of imaginative shapes to wear and to tie as fashion clothing. So Hermès horses would gallop across the torso of a vest or a Jacques Fath silk square was twisted into an elegant collar. As tea dress or tunic, the French foulard, so fashionable from the 1930s through the 1970s, was given a second life. That is the essence of the E2 concept to vintage clothing, applied for the first time this season to accessories. And with creative imagination, the humble or grand square of fabric becomes something, as Michèle Chatenet puts it, "that you can fold into your bag and transform into an outfit at night." .
Kenya: Making a Living Out of Selling Textiles
For twenty years now, Mahesh Shah, proprietor of Memsaab has been selling exclusive fabrics that some of his customers claim cannot be found anywhere else. The shop stocks fabric ranging from cotton to silk. "They are ten kinds of silk and we have them all," says Shah. .
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