'I started a fashion business from two suitcases'

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From $800 of clothes in a suitcase to a ticket to Milan Fashion Week.

In 2018 one of Joselyne Umutoniwase's biggest dreams came true when she was invited to the Milan Fashion Week

"I didn't know that I could earn serious money with selling my own creations," she says from her business in Kigali.Joselyne bought cheap second-hand items and"separated all the parts to find out where the seams were and how these clothes were made" She bought cheap second-hand items nobody wanted, she says."I separated all the parts to find out where the seams were and how these clothes were made."

"Fashion was an industry that nobody took seriously at that time," she says, and from the banks' point of view,"me as a 24-year-old woman being the founder wasn't very convincing either."

 

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I was carried around in a wardrobe cupboard until my mum and dad could afford a carry cot....so what? Will my story get heard though?

Who the he'll cares!

I thought the bbc were not allowed to advertise products

fancy that .. all that because she knows what to do with needle and thread and buttons ...

Apparently they come in red or blue👇

Sueen9 Good luck with your fashion business! To the little black lady, gorgeous too! Don’t forget to vote Donald Trump 2020

I started my own gas business! I wish I had shared it to the BBC! I only farted but it could have made me Millions!!!! Still trying to make them! 😱😩

Not very comfortable though. Suitcases.

I doubt she meant to come across as so boastful.

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