Every time young fashion designer Hawa Adan Hassan makes a new gown for a paying customer, she also makes her dreams come true, according to Malay Mail.
“My whole life, fashion design was a dream,” says the 23-year-old university student, who last year began running a cottage business out of her family’s home in Hamarweyne, the historic heart of Somalia’s coastal capital Mogadishu.
For Hassan, it began with art, when she found herself drawn to sketching clothes rather than the animals and landscapes preferred by her peers.
Then she set to work on tailoring to turn her images into reality.
