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In a first, Tibetan fashion designer hits big time in China

Aj Namo hopes to change Chinese perceptions about Tibet.

Earlier this year, Aj Namo became the first Tibetan fashion designer selected for China Fashion Week, the country's biggest fashion show. But when the organisers offered her their models, including some of China's most well known faces, she declined. Instead, she selected young Tibetans from her hometown of Kangba, a small grassland township in western Sichuan, near Tibet. She also eschewed the customary grand fashion show opening, with

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