-: I believe that clothing is something
that really empowers one to feel their best,
to be their most confident.
As a company, we want to bring that to the women
who purchase our garments.
So we empower women both by the clothing that they wear,
but also by providing an avenue for women
to be able to sell their goods and sustain a living.
So our for women by women model
is that when you purchase a garment
or you purchase an accessory,
you are directly affecting another woman
somewhere else in the world.
My name is Joelle Fontaine
and I'm the CEO and founder of Kréyol.
My clothing represents a number of different things,
so I'm completely inspired by the old Haitian dresses
that my mother used to make for me as a little girl.
So you have like something like a bouffant sleeve
or a peplum and also the Haitian uniforms back in the day.
And I'm also a vintage girl.
Through fashion, my goal is to ensure
that women have choices,
that they are able to sustain themselves
and not rely on the government or a man or anything else,
but able to take the work of their own hands
to dictate their destiny.
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