This collection of paper jewelry was created as a collaboration between KEZA, Jenny Lai and Lindsay Perkins. According to Jenny Lai's Coroflot profile, KEZA is a fashion company dedicated to helping businesses in East Africa with the intention of improving the lives of women there. For this particular collection, KEZA highlighted a Rwanda cooperative that creates paper jewelry.
In conjunction with KEZA, Jenny Lai and Lindsay Perkins spent all of summer 2009 in Rwanda working with this cooperative. The paper jewelry you see above is the result of this KEZA collaboration.
Charitable Paper Jewelry
Jenny Lai and Lindsay Perkins Partner With KEZA for Eco Fashion Collectio
Trend Themes
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