| Open for business twice a week, the 16 of July market is the largest in South America and Bolivia.
With close to 500 thousand vendors Claudia Perez is a regular shopper.
But she's not shopping for herself. She is buying material for her recycled clothing line called Aywira. She looks for top-of-the-line neckties, scarves and handkerchiefs mostly sent to Bolivia from developed countries. Then her and her partner make them into new clothes, often selling them back to the countries they came from.
She says she's been collecting nice material for seven years but at the beginning she didn't know what to do with it.
[Claudia Perez, Fashion Designer]: "I wanted to really reuse it, to reuse the raw material. More than anything the great materials like silk, for example. I wanted to use it to make beautiful things."
Once she has scoured the used clothing stalls, Perez takes her finds back to the Aywira boutique and studio. There, she and her business partner, Marcia Devil make the ... |
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