Major art museums have realized there is much to learn from clothing that is both religiously coded and fashion forward. In 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a fashion exhibition inspired by ...
When Amirah Aulaqi walks down the streets of New York City, everyone turns and stares. Amirah dresses in a hijab (Muslim headscarf) and long, flowy garments. But the looks and questions she receives ...
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Reha Muhtar, a popular Turkish writer, was vacationing on Turkey’s Aegean coast when he saw two young women, hair tucked under hoods, bodies cloaked in ankle-length outfits, diving ...
The sweet-faced museum guard in Damascus was bewildered. "Why," he asked, "don't Americans come to Syria?" I gave him the polite answer: that it seems far away and foreign, and that they probably didn ...
Some of the biggest names in couture, such as Christian Dior, are racing to produce Islamic-inspired attire that will tap into the spending power of Muslim women globally. Statuesque models clad in ...