Can fashion help bring people together as well as set trends and mould culture worldwide? Fashion designer and environmentalist Runa Ray believes it can.
Her exhibition Repurposing Fashion: Reimagining Peace, now open at UN Headquarters in New York, transforms discarded textiles into works of art carrying messages of peace from 30 countries.
Speaking to UN News’ Cristina Silveiro, she explains why she believes “fashion has a greater purpose” than glamour alone
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