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With her label LavaLani Designs, Susana Samuels began her fashion journey designing Masi wedding dresses and gowns for friends, family and pageants. Over the years she has explored other aspects of the fashion industry and is now a fully-fledged pattern maker and designer.
She now specializes in Masi couture gowns using natural bark cloth/ Masi with traditional prints from all over Fiji. She is also working on putting these prints on Fabric, where her end goal is to make Fiji itaukei traditional prints instantly recognizable internationally as Fijian.
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