Meet the designers who brought colourful diversity to Milan's fashion runways


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This picture shows (from left to right) Mokodu Fall, Fabiola Manirakiza and Joy Meribe. Along with two other designers, they opened the recent Milan Fashion Week. Photo composite: AFP

Born in different parts of Africa but all operating under the Made In Italy brand, the five designers who opened Milan Fashion Week as part of a collective, come from diverse backgrounds.

Fabiola Manirakiza, 50, was born in Burundi but it was in Zaire, which became the Democratic Republic Of Congo, that she learned how to sew, in a school run by Italian nuns.

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