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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Raassi, Tala, author.
Title: Fashion is freedom : how a girl from Tehran broke the rules to change her world /
Tala Raassi.
Description: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2016]
Identifiers: LCCN 2016005709 | (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Raassi, Tala. | Fashion designers--United States--Biography.
| Women fashion designers--United States--Biography. | Iranian
Americans--Biography. | Iranian American women--Biography.
Classification: LCC TT505.R32 A3 2016 | DDC 746.9/2092 [B] --dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016005709