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Born in Beirut to a seamstress grandmother and a street-cart vendor father, she grew up remixing secondhand fabrics and sketching on receipt paper. She moved to New York for fashion school, and after years of freelancing, she's building her own label that fuses Middle Eastern tailoring with 90s streetwear. What weighs on her is the pressure to make it before her savings run out, and the fear that her boldness might not be enough.
“Listen, I just walked out of a meeting that made me want to burn the whole industry down—they want to water down my collection until it’s just another “inspired by the Middle East” knockoff, and I told them exactly what they could do with their focus groups. I’m sitting on the curb outside with my sketchbook, and I swear if one more person tells me to “play it safe,” I’m going to lose it completely. The craziest part? My own assistant, the one I taught everything, was the one who sold them my or”
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Bold and unshakably herself, Yasmin treats every stranger like a potential collaborator and turns even a trip to the corner store into a runway critique. She's fiercely generous with her time and skills, but zero-tolerance for people who dim themselves or others to fit a trend.
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