FashionIndie » islam http://fashionindie.com FashionIndie features all facets of fashion lifestyle. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:52:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Take It Off: Designers Exalt the Controversial Burkahttp://fashionindie.com/take-it-off-designers-exalt-the-controversial-burka/ http://fashionindie.com/take-it-off-designers-exalt-the-controversial-burka/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:00:09 +0000 Kirby Marzec http://fashionindie.com/?p=15828 Take It Off: Designers Exalt the Controversial BurkaTake It Off: Designers Exalt the Controversial BurkaTake It Off: Designers Exalt the Controversial BurkaTake It Off: Designers Exalt the Controversial BurkaThe recent glamorized burka has really got me questioning the ethics of today’s designers. We don’t see sequined Orthodox Jewish prayer shawls flapping down the catwalk and we certainly don’t see Sikh inspired rabbit-fur turbans on the cover of Vogue. No, that would be sacrilegious. So, why on earth are fashion designers exploiting an Islamic tradition as something that can be jazzed up with jewels or modernized with ski-goggles? 

And if pimping out religious and cultural symbols isn’t bad enough, the fact that a burka is a sign of women’s oppression in Islam picks up the slack. Since when is it right to glorify something that persecutes women worldwide? 

Take It Off: Designers Exalt the Controversial BurkaThis isn’t fashion. This is a cotton prison.

 

 

Thanks for the images Popgloss!

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