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When trying on her original fashion designs became a hassle, Delaina Parrish turned her attention toward strategic designs that would make clothing more accessible for girls with unique bodies and abilities. This story is part of Teen Voices’ Girl Fuse series, featuring stories by and about girls with disabilities.
“When you are around Danielle the wheelchair is just an object in the room,” says Tomboy founder Rachel Grossinger. Media psychologists say this kind of diversity in fashion helps everyone challenge unrealistic beauty standards.
Whitney Pozgay, a young designer, takes her fashion cue from the Riot Grrrl revolution. Elsewhere during New York Fashion Week, Spanish retailer Desigual celebrated female curves in a way that seemed almost subversive on the runway.
“Hijab is a part of my Muslim-American identity,” said one woman featured in this video interviewed on World Hijab Day on Feb. 1. “For me it is a display of my love for God. It is a form of worship.”
Designers, photographers and bloggers are generating interest in all the fashion possibilities of loose, flowing fabrics and covered hair. Fans include Christian women who can’t find much church-going attire at the local mall. The second of two stories for Ramadan about Muslim women in the United States.
These businesswomen don’t have environmental backgrounds, but they know it’s time to tailor their business practices to extreme global weather patterns. The fashion designer always paid attention to the weather but now she watches it with an eye to fabric prices.
Belonging to a breakthrough Muslim fashion agency doesn’t require me to display my skin or be a certain size or shape. For many reasons–political as well as personal–that’s a really good fit for me.
Indian fashion designer Abhishek Dutta had his models don oxygen masks last month to call attention to environmental degradation. He joins a roster of designers who have turned their runways into political forums.
Fashion isn’t just self expression, it can also be political, say Marjorie Jolles and Shira Tarrant in the collection of essays “Fashion Talks.” In this excerpt, they look at feminism’s tense relationship with fashion.
In conjunction with fashion week in Italy, the cover of fashion magazine Vogue features a model with a Photoshop waistline inspired by the Guinness Book of World Records. An editor defends the image and denies it could cause any harm.