Going Green

Young Egyptian Designers Use Fashion to Change Our Plastic Habits

Young Egyptians Yara Yassin and Rania Rafie are embarking on a business that makes bags from bags – innovative handbags sewn from throwaway plastic.  It’s not a gimmick, a serious environmental message underpins the venture. The freshly minted design school grads share a heightened awareness of modern consumerism, and hope to spread the word that our daily habits have powerful and negative global impact. Green Prophet had a chat with the upcycling duo. Green Prophet: Tell the readers about yourselves. Yara/Rania: We are two Egyptian designers who graduated this past winter from the German University in Cairo.  …

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Young Egyptian Designers Use Fashion to Change Our Plastic Habits

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