As It Is: Afghan Fashion Designer Creates Dresses, Jobs
06/09/2013
Roya Hashimi's shop in the American state of Virginia.
Thanks for joining us again on “As It Is.” I’m Kelly Jean Kelly.
Today we are discussing one of my favorite topics: wedding dresses.
“Last year I made a beautiful huge ball gown for a lady who was actually from Lebanon. We used more than a hundred yards of tulle just for the skirt.”
Roya Hashimi is a fashion designer from Afghanistan. She started a dressmaking business sixteen years ago. It is called Elegance by Roya, and it is Virginia, in the United States.
VOA went to her shop recently to visit. The store is one long room. It is lined on both sides with white dresses. Many touch the floor. Every half hour or so, the doorbell rings, and a woman comes in. Usually she is with her mother, or her sister, or a friend, and they are trying on a gown Roya has made.
“Business is good, we are doing okay. I’m enjoying my work.”
Roya left Afghanistan when she was a teenager in the mid-1980s. Her family went to Germany. Roya studied fashion design there. Eventually she married, and she and her husband Mustafa moved to America. He helps her with advertising and other parts of the business.
“This is a family business. We don’t think of it as the wife and husband. So we work it out as a business once we get here. So it’s all business, business, business, work. Then at six o’clock, come here, honey.”
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