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Stichting The Caribbean Diaspora Legacy Foundation
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Work by young makers

In a sewing studio someone holds up a mood board with cut-out fashion images pasted on it; a dress form stands beside them and a table further back is covered with other boards.
A mood board in the studio.
Someone works at a sewing machine at a covered table, with a stack of cut fabric pieces within reach.
At the sewing machine.
A wide skirt of orange tulle on a dress form in a classroom, with someone beside it working on the layers.
A tulle skirt on the dress form.
The same orange skirt close up: a hand fastens the gathered tulle to the dress form.
The gathered tulle close up.
A pale tulle gown on a dress form in front of the window, with the orange skirt and a standing mirror behind it.
Another design in the studio.
A black dress on a dress form with a heart of coloured fabric set into the front and lace cuffs at the sleeves.
A dress with an inset heart.
Someone leans over a work table and draws a design on a tablet with one finger, holding a phone running the same app in the other hand; a stylus, scissors and thread lie beside the tablet.
Drawing a design on the tablet.
A black hooded zip jacket with a name in script lettering on the chest.
A jacket from a clothing line of their own.
The back of the same black jacket, carrying the line Kid with big dreams in script lettering.
The back of the jacket.
A black padded hooded coat, shown from the front and from the back side by side.
A padded coat, front and back.
The collar of a black jacket close up, with a silver zip pull shaped from interlaced letters.
The zip pull close up.
Black wide-legged jogging trousers carrying the same name in script lettering on the side.
Trousers from the clothing line.