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Every time young fashion designer Hawa Adan Hassan makes a new gown for a paying customer, she also makes her dreams come true, according to Malay Mail.
“My whole life, fashion design was a dream,” says the 23-year-old university student, who last year began running a cottage business out of her family’s home in Hamarweyne, the historic heart of Somalia’s coastal capital Mogadishu.
For Hassan, it began with art, when she found herself drawn to sketching clothes rather than the animals and landscapes preferred by her peers.
Then she set to work on tailoring to turn her images into reality.
Hawa Adan Hassan, 23 year-old, university student, uses a sewing machine at her home in Mogadishu, Somalia. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
Somalia's clothes business is a simple one: foreign imported garments for the well-to-do, locally tailored clothes for the rest. But new fashion designers are complicating that picture with locally-designed, hand-made attire. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
A saleswoman at the Mkeni Designs shop, dresses a mannequin with new fashion creations on November 4, 2018, in Mogadishu. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
Muna Mohamed Abdullahi, 24 years old, owner of Mkena Designs, cuts some fabrics on a mannequin on November 4, 2018, in Mogadishu. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
Abdishakur Abdirahman Adam, 19 years old, secondary school student and fashion designer for women and men, cuts fabrics, on November 4, 2018, in Mogadishu. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
Hawa Adan Hassan, a 23 year-old university student and a young Somali female fashion designer checks her new finished fashion design, on November 3, 2018, in Mogadishu. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
Rahma Abdullahi Mohamud (R) and Hani Hussein take selfies pictures with a mobile phone, after buying clothes designed by fashiondesigner Muna Mohamed Abdullahi, at Peace Garden in Mogadishu, Somalia. ABDI HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
“My whole life, fashion design was a dream,” says the 23-year-old university student, who last year began running a cottage business out of her family’s home in Hamarweyne, the historic heart of Somalia’s coastal capital Mogadishu.
For Hassan, it began with art, when she found herself drawn to sketching clothes rather than the animals and landscapes preferred by her peers.
Then she set to work on tailoring to turn her images into reality.
Hawa Adan Hassan, 23 year-old, university student, uses a sewing machine at her home in Mogadishu, Somalia. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
Somalia's clothes business is a simple one: foreign imported garments for the well-to-do, locally tailored clothes for the rest. But new fashion designers are complicating that picture with locally-designed, hand-made attire. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
A saleswoman at the Mkeni Designs shop, dresses a mannequin with new fashion creations on November 4, 2018, in Mogadishu. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
Muna Mohamed Abdullahi, 24 years old, owner of Mkena Designs, cuts some fabrics on a mannequin on November 4, 2018, in Mogadishu. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
Abdishakur Abdirahman Adam, 19 years old, secondary school student and fashion designer for women and men, cuts fabrics, on November 4, 2018, in Mogadishu. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
Hawa Adan Hassan, a 23 year-old university student and a young Somali female fashion designer checks her new finished fashion design, on November 3, 2018, in Mogadishu. Abdi HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP
Rahma Abdullahi Mohamud (R) and Hani Hussein take selfies pictures with a mobile phone, after buying clothes designed by fashiondesigner Muna Mohamed Abdullahi, at Peace Garden in Mogadishu, Somalia. ABDI HAJJI HUSSEIN / AFP