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<div>Well...
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<div>This definitely wasn't on my 2026 bingo card! 
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<div>If you'd told me years ago, while I was working in a dry cleaners in Sheffield, dreaming about becoming a fashion designer instead of ironing shirts, that one day I'd be invited to showcase my work on a Fashion Week runway...
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<div>I'd probably have laughed and told you to stop being so daft.
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<div>But here we are.
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<div>Many of you have followed my journey over the years.
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<div>You've watched me disappear into my little one-bedroom flat with glue guns, crystals, paint, fabric, sketchbooks and enough Amazon parcels to make the delivery drivers wonder what on earth I was building!
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<div>You've watched me teach myself new skills, make mistakes, start again, celebrate every tiny win and keep going... even when it would have been much easier to give up.
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<div>What many people don't know is that creating has never just been about making beautiful things...
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<div>It's been part of my healing.
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<div>As a child, I experienced trauma that changed my life forever. It left me with physical and emotional scars that I still carry today.
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<div>For a long time I wondered if those scars would always be the first thing people saw.
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<div>Then I found creativity.
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<div>Somewhere between the glue guns, crystals, fabric and countless late nights, I realised I wasn't just making jewellery, fashion and art...
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<div>I was slowly putting myself back together too.
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<div>Amani Kush wasn't born because I wanted to start a business.
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<div>It was born because creating gave me hope.
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<div>Everything I make carries a little piece of that journey.
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<div>I'm completely self-taught.
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<div>No fashion degree.
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<div>No wealthy investors.
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<div>No big team.
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<div>Just me...
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<div>A lot of determination...
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<div>A lot of YouTube...
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<div>A few tears...
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<div>And the occasional "What on earth have I done?!" moment. 
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<div>Then, a week ago, I received an email.
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<div>I read it once.
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<div>Then again.
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<div>Then I rang my mum because I genuinely thought I'd misunderstood it.
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<div>Amani Kush had officially been selected to participate in the Spring/Summer 2027 Fashion Week Runway Showcase in London.
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<div>I honestly cried.
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<div>Not because I'd "made it"...
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<div>But because, for the first time, someone else could see the vision I'd been quietly working towards for years.
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<div>Now comes the scary bit.
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<div>Actually getting there.
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<div>Creating a runway collection is a huge investment for a one-woman business. There are garments to create, jewellery to make, fabrics to source, crystals to buy, travel, accommodation and everything that goes into presenting a collection I'm truly proud of.
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<div>If you know me, you'll know asking for help doesn't come naturally.
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<div>I'd much rather be the person helping everyone else.
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<div>But this opportunity is simply too important not to ask.
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<div>So, if you've ever bought one of my creations, shared one of my posts, encouraged me, believed in me or simply cheered me on from afar...
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<div>Thank you.
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<div>If you're able to support this journey, no matter how big or small the contribution, you'll become part of a dream that has taken years to build.
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<div>And if donating isn't possible, sharing this page would mean the world to me.
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<div>I genuinely believe where you begin in life doesn't have to decide where you end up.
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<div>I hope that somewhere out there another little girl, sitting with a big dream and wondering if she's good enough, will one day see this and think...
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<div>"Maybe I can do it too."
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<div>From the bottom of my heart...
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<div>Thank you for believing in me before the rest of the world had the chance.
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<div>With love,
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<div>Natasha Farrell Founder &amp; Designer Amani Kush
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<div>Raised Rough. Worn Rich.
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