Word: scarfed
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...Villa Moda, the designer emporium that also has stores in Kuwait, Qatar and Bombay. And Alanoud has taken me to the Village Mall, near her family home in the ritzy suburb Jumeirah, where the latest must-have accessory is a clutch bag made from a gutra, the checked head scarf worn by Arab...
...crowd--an international group of buyers and press--there were whispers of the "Muslimification" of fashion. Were designers responding to conflicts in the Middle East by stitching some kind of political message into their silhouettes? Historically, many designers have explored the veiling concept. At Balenciaga, a cyclamen head scarf that appeared at the end of the show was a replica of a similar one Cristóbal Balenciaga designed in the '60s. Politics has surfaced in the past too. Eight years ago, the Turkish designer Hussein Chalayan presented a collection modeled by women in chadors...
...under the rule of the secular Fatah party. As he offers visitors a bowl of fruit, al-Bitawi recalls how, after returning to the West Bank from religious studies in Jordan in the 1970s, he looked for a future wife who covered herself in the traditional hijab, or head scarf, and the body- length jilbab. "I couldn't find a girl for months," he says. "Nowadays, 70% of Palestinian women wear these clothes. It's normal." To al-Bitawi, the change is a sign that more Palestinians are adopting the fundamentalist values that Hamas espouses. "Of course we would love...
...unnoticed by the makeover masters at Mattel. In the face of years of criticism, Nurse Barbie had turned into Doctor Barbie, Stewardess Barbie into Astronaut Barbie, with a host of multicultural friends. There was even Barbie for President 2004 in a trim red pantsuit with a Stars-and-Stripes scarf...
...Harvard’s campus, Huma Farid ’06 reported this November that a group of women yelled “filthy Jew-hater” at her because of her Muslim background. At the time of the verbal attack, Farid was wearing the hijab, or head scarf, indicating her Muslim faith...