Comoros-born Sakina landed in Marseille in the ‘70s, learning French via Baudelaire, and having an epiphany at a Tadeusz Kantor play. She made her own first punk collection at 14, and since moving to Paris has championed mode éclairée or ‘enlightened fashion’, organising events in women’s prisons and disenfranchised neighbourhoods. Designer of an eponymous line and the urban Blue Line, she’s somehow found time to collaborate with everyone from Le Redoute to Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantent (on her first film, released in 2019). In 2015 she launched sustainable concept store Front de Mode.
