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...architecture and the break with traditions are beginning to influence designers in Muslim nations as well. Sometimes the change is simply a return to the religion's roots. Architect Zeynep Fadillioglu drew on her own experiences praying in mosques when designing the ultramodern Sakirin Mosque in Istanbul. "In the Prophet's time, men and women prayed next to each other," she says. "Lately, with the rise of political Islam everywhere, the women's sections have started to be covered up and boxed off. I've been in mosques like that, and I felt very uncomfortable...
...Fadillioglu's women's section is an expansive balcony overlooking the central hall and divided only by crisscrossed railings. An airy and luxurious sensibility pervades the building. The facilities for preprayer ablution have blond-wood and Plexiglas lockers. In the main hall hangs a bronze chandelier, dangling with hand-blown glass raindrops - a visual allusion to the Koranic verse that says Allah's light should fall on believers like drops of rain. The mihrab, which indicates the direction of prayer, is tulip-shaped and turquoise - "an opening to God," says Fadillioglu...
...funky T shirt label, Ottoman Empire, which features groovy graphics of sultans and taglines like THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. The latest hotel, Les Ottomans, looks as if it has been there since the days of the empire but is in fact a new building with interiors by designer Zeynep Fadillioglu, a striking 51-year-old who wears Rick Owens clothes and is responsible for the look of some of the city's smartest restaurants and bars...
...Fadillioglu, who grew up on the water, is first cousin to fashion designer Rifat Ozbek. Now the designer for Pollini in Milan, Ozbek is thrilled that his hometown is back on the style map. "I love that it is once again one of the world's great cosmopolitan cities," he says, "and with such a young energy and so many incredible places...
...latest project for his cousin is not another bar, however, but a mosque that is being privately funded. "Yes, people are surprised that a woman has been chosen, because some think that Islam is all about male power," says Fadillioglu, who aligns herself with the liberal side of the faith. "There is nothing about covering in the book," she explains, when quizzed about why many Muslim women here do not cover up and are passionate in their freedom not to do so, while other women, including the Prime Minister's wife, are equally insistent on wearing a head scarf...
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