Project Runway‘s 27-year-old Ayana Ife is a Muslim woman who is trying to show women that you can be Muslim and still be trendy and fashion-forward. Ayana and the other designers faced an ...
If she had her way, N’aimah Abdullah would have spent her summer island hopping through the Caribbean with her friends, and they’d all be decked out in some of the most unique modest fashion designs ...
LONDON — When Ruba Zai uploaded her first video online, the Netherlands-based Afghan student just wanted to share with other Muslim girls and women how she styled her headscarf. She had no idea that ...
Growing up as a teenager in your typical American high school (à la Mean Girls) was no easy feat for many of us. Growing up as an American Muslim who covered? Phew. Whole other story. In the ...
If you follow runway news even casually, you’ve likely heard about the rise of “modest” dressing. Broadly defined as clothing that’s not revealing in terms of cut and fit, modest dressing isn’t ...
But fast-forward to the second decade of the 21st century, and a connection to Muslims is seen as an asset. Global fashion brands from luxury to high street have woken up to the Islamic calendar.
(RNS) — Seek Refuge, a new crowdfunded streetwear brand for millennial Muslim women, issues a challenge to the traditional modest fashion industry — all while taking up the cause of refugees. (RNS) — ...
Ahead of the holy month, Jaserah Asadullah took videos of herself modeling a loose, dark brown body covering garment known as an abaya in her Houston apartment. In Houston, the home of one of the ...
San Francisco’s two major art museums are having a bit of a Muslim moment. At the Legion of Honor, there is an exhibition entitled Islam and the Classical Heritage, a display of 14th-to 19th-century ...
What’s long been referred to as the “modest” fashion of Muslim women has grown into a major industry generating hundreds of billions of dollars annually. The first U.S. museum exhibit highlighting ...