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Jamaican fashion veteran turns heads in Vogue

Jamaican designer Lorna Scott-Williams has been listed by Vogue magazine as a stalwart among 67 industry veterans named in the September issue as “people who make fashion happen”. The 73-year-old fashion designer and pattern maker said, in an...

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