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Subject: textile manufacturing

The Money Is the Wrong Shape

The Money Is the Wrong Shape FLY03140
Ituen Basi at GTCO Fashion Weekend, 2024. Photo: Olaniyan Pelumi for Guzangs

The year Beyoncé wore her clothes, Sarah Diouf was still, in effect, her own bank. Building the label meant buying fabric before the money came back and paying tailors before the invoices settled, then finding cash for the samples, the shoots, the customs paperwork and the long quiet months between one burst of global attention […]

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