Italian prisoners producing high quality fashion.
Milan is famous above all else as the capital of Italian fashion - it's also the site of one of the fashion world's less likely success stories. Inmates at two of the city's biggest prisons have been winning praise from top designers for the high quality of their creations. Mark Duff reports that they're even hoping to launch their own line of high street fashion. More than that - the scheme also seems to be successful at keeping its ex-workers out of prison. |