Tag: Islamic Fashion

Islamic Fashion: A Rebellious Choice

Islamic Fashion: A Rebellious Choice

  The book Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion, focuses on trends, attires, personalities  and discourses prevalent in Islamic fashion and proves that Islamic fashion developed as a rupture with the notions of fashion, understood both as an industry with its reckless celebration of female body as well as capitalization of human desires and as ‘pervasive cultural colonialism’ as […]

June 30, 2014 Shameer KS
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Islamic Fashion: Corruptive or Corrective?

Islamic Fashion: Corruptive or Corrective?

“Islam is all about achieving the ideal of spiritual reform. So it offers an ethical vision beyond the immediate temptation of matter and materialism. What we call ‘Islamic fashion’ is oxymoron. Fashion is the sole by-product of capitalism, a political and economic reincarnation of materialism. How can Islam be in accord with the pettiness and […]

June 30, 2014
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‘Fashion Is the Biggest Oxymoron in My Life’

‘Fashion Is the Biggest Oxymoron in My Life’

Zinah Nur Sharif is a fashion blogger, designer and cover girl. An outspoken critic of the fashion industry as it was normally understood, Zinah uses the platform of blog to take to people her innovative and revolutionary ideas of clothing and fashion. In conversation with Emma Tarlo,  she explains the crucial ideas prevalent in the […]

June 30, 2014 Emma Tarlo
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