Profile: A young Uygur`s Project Runway
(WorldNews China)

URUMQI, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Fashion changes, but never does the eye for beauty. Mewlan Turaq had never heard of Project Runway, the American reality television series that focuses on fashion design, but the 26-year-old designer is weaving his own project to preserve traditional Uygur costumes. In his boutique in the Old Town area of Kashgar, northwest China`s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Mewlan draws a sketch of a dress in the sunlight by a blue window. When a customer walks in, he immediately puts down his pencil and recommends they try on the various floral headwear, dresses and boots hanging on his boutique`s walls. Mewlan`s boutique sells and rents both traditional costumes and...