As a girl, sewing helped her recover from hand burns. Now her designs grace red carpets and runways
Fashion designer Linda Rowe Thomas remembers playing "dress-up" on November 26, 1971. Linda was two years old, her sister was six. Shortly after she put on a fur coat, a kerosene heater exploded in her Douglasville, Texas home.
"My mom came into the house and saved us," Thomas told CNN.
Burns covered more than 70% of her sister's body. And Linda sustained third-degree burns to her face, neck and hands.
"Because I was wearing the coat and I had the hood up, the only thing that was burned was w