Uygur tailor stitches future in her dressmaking studio

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More than a decade ago, Sharwangul dreamed of being a fashion designer.

But growing up in a poor rural household in the Yili Kazak autonomous prefecture of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region meant that the 30-year-old had to overcome many barriers to realize that dream.