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Nadira Škaljić Mingasson was born in Sarajevo in 1971 where she enjoyed a happy childhood before being caught in the clutches of war. When peace returned, she felt the urge and the desire to rebuild her country from the ashes by building bridges between Bosnia and France, where she had sought refuge.

Nadira's vision is as
follows : to transform the incredible talent of Bosnian woman knitters, heirs to an ancestral tradition, into a sustainable economic activity. These are golden hands, a precious treasure that we must reveal and share with the world. In the fashion market, the demand for high quality luxury hand-knit productions is at an all time high, it is from their home country of Bosnia and Hercegovina that Nadira and her squad of knitters take it upon themselves to respond to that demand.

In 2011, Nadira took a daring gamble. She moved back to Sarajevo where she opened the association “Udružene” (united women in bosnian). It is thanks to that gamble that came about the never seen before confluence between the word of high fashion and that of a tradition that is indissociable from Bosnian culture