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How Chloé Has Worked With Refugees to Create Stunning Accessories

Learn how French luxury fashion house Chloé successfully collaborated with Afghan refugees to create stunning accessories with social impact.
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Key Takeaways
  • Fashion brands can play an important role in celebrating the work of displaced artisans and preserving cultural heritage
  • Working with crafts people who are refugees provides income, builds independence and can change lives 
  • Get in touch with MADE51 to discover how your brand can work with refugee-artisans and support the livelihoods of marginalised communities
  • Download Chloe x MADE51 impact report here

Chloé x MADE51: Changing the lives of refugees

Zia Gul is 18 years old. She is an Afghan who lives in Pakistan with her family. She is a refugee. 

She is also a skilled artisan whose fine, geometric, multi-coloured  Tarshumar embroidery adorns the handles of  Chloé’s iconic Marcie and Woodie handbags. 


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The collaboration between luxury French fashion house Chloé and MADE51, a brand set-up by the United Nations agency for refugees, has not just changed Zia Gul’s life,…

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Melanie Plank

Director of Content & Research at Common Objective

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