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MEÜS Designer: MEÜS Photograph courtesy of Lookbook Magazine Guatemala

Designer: MEÜS Photograph courtesy of Lookbook Magazine Guatemala

15 January 2015
by Niamh Tuft

MEÜS was founded in 2014 by Guatemalan Fashion Designer Sofía Contreras Paredes. Sofia studied in Guatemala and at the Fashion Department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Belgium. Sofía worked with Belgian Designer Christian Wijnants, studied with Textile Artist Anita Evenepoel and participated as Backstage Assistant at the Paris Fashion Week in 2013. Sofía works as a Freelance Shoe Designer at Industrias HOLA and worked with the Guatemalan Institute for Tourism in rural communities as Accessories and Textile Designer. Her upcoming projects include collaborations with Guatemalan artisans and Fashion Designers.

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