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Source: Courtesy of Bunnie Benton / Courtesy of Bunnie Benton

Since the beginning of time, Black women have learned to make do with very little, and the same can be said of fashion!

When Bunnie Benton isn’t curating her own pieces as a fashion designer and CEO of Veljrè, her clothing brand dedicated to Black women, she practices the adage that “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure.” Her thrifty transformations involve upcycling clothes that she’s either ruined or bored with or even those that she finds during a thrift store run.

“I started upcycling the way I feel a lot of Black women start upcycling, which is when we are younger, when money was tight and when you wanted something, you had to find a way to get it,” Benton recalled to MadameNoire.“I started with little things like that. Then it transformed to just seeing something that someone was about to throw something in the …