A model wears an outfit by Fashion East designer Louise Golden during her catwalk show at London Fashion Week in London, Monday Feb. 12, 2007. The designers are showing their Autumn/ Winter 2007/8 collections. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Following May's latest InRANTation [a copyrighted feature of KABOBfest], we are glad to report that the nihilistic, hyper-apathetic exploitation of the Kaffiyah/Kuffieh/Keffiyeh for fashion purposes is losing ground to the latest Orientalistic co-optation of Eastern images: the niqab, or is Afghan cousin, the burka.
I look forward to lowering my gaze from New York fashion mavens sporting the ninja look this year.
(tarboush tip: George)
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
KABOBfashion Report: Kuffieh Out, Niqab In
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5 comments:
ya Will ya habibi , it's Kuffieh not Kaffiya.
After seeing the photos of Lebanese protesters that Fayyad posted... I say the West can have the niqab, burka, and hijab!
I was never a fan anyway. Our women are far too beautiful to be covered up like that.
New Yorkers on the other hand... eeekh!
agreed. the girl in the pic already looks ugly. good for them.
haha-actually, when I saw a woman on Broadway near the Columbia area draped in a burka, I thought to myself, "I can't wait for the bukra to be a trend (even though McQueen most controversially used it in what seems in like in the fashion world as eons back-which was 2 years ago!)-so I won't have to see the faces of these vapid, consumer-crazed, co-opters.
haha!....omg...so funny...
heeeyyy...she looks like an over made up doll...no eyebrows....
just a white face with...
hey....nice eyes!! contacts? heee...
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