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“We were told, if you’ll listen, we’re going to go on a picnic in Sargella. When we heard that, there was a celebration. We’d run to the relatives and knock on doors to tell the cousins the news and get ready to play – you went to places like this with all the relatives: a van full of kids, and the adults on bikes. We sang and argued about which song was more appropriate, but it was still a meeting in paradise – children’s dreams becoming reality. Sargella was meadows great for playing, surrounded by ancient buildings from the 1st century. Adults claimed these were dead cities, cursed with disease and haunted – abandoned and preserved because people feared them. Upon our arrival, Grandma would begin to take out the food and put it in jhunas, large colorful containers she made herself from the wheat straws. The grandmothers would create and then fill them with food, put them on their heads and walk the fields like that. June was part of us, there were them in every house, but my grandmothers’ were special…”

Mariam Alasaad is an architect but has always had a passion for fashion. Her love for fashion brought her to the decision to enroll in the Fashion minor program of the university during the last two years of her master’s degree in Architecture. She comes from two cultures: Bulgarian and Syrian. The collection is inspired by a mix of cultures and natural materials. In her collection, she uses a technique that her Syrian grandmother used to make dishes. For the basis of the technique, she uses corn leaves from her Bulgarian grandmother’s garden.

IG: @mariiam_as

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