It’s 4 p.m. on a Wednesday, and the sewing room at Chelsea’s High School of Fashion Industries is buzzing. Students frantically stitch pearls onto gowns, fix frayed seams and puzzle over why the ...
Nearly every morning, Suzette Opara wakes before the sun rises and begins her meticulous work of hand-sewing and removing beads and sequins, carefully cutting silk, lace and jersey-knit fabrics into ...