Ethniticities Magazine - March Issue 2017
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FASHION<br />
Muslim community which the indonesian designer<br />
Anniesa Hasibuan knows all too well. Last year<br />
she made history when all of her models came out<br />
on the runway with hijab. Haute Hijab is the name<br />
of Hasibuan brand who is dedicated to design for<br />
Muslim women, showing the world that they are<br />
allowed to be fashionable too.<br />
In her latest collection she strongly marked her<br />
ideology of inclusion contracting models that were<br />
immigrants, visa and green cardholders and first<br />
or second generation American. Undoubtedly,<br />
Hasibuan is and will be a designer who will give<br />
us much to talk about in both world politics and<br />
fashion.<br />
MARC JACOBS FALL <strong>2017</strong><br />
Designers like Michael Kors and Prabal Gurung<br />
also gave strong inclusion messages having<br />
plus-size models like Ashley Graham and Candice<br />
Huffine on the runways. Not to mention the slogan<br />
t-shirts at the end of the shows of Prabal Gurung,<br />
Christian Siriano and Public schools which ended<br />
with phrases like: The Future is Female, Love is<br />
Resistance and People are People.<br />
New York presented the 1990s as its fashion<br />
trend. That decade represented and promised<br />
community, diversity and unity including the<br />
release of Nelson Mandela from prison. This<br />
milestone that marked and still marks a change<br />
in the history of apartheid and discrimination in<br />
the world.<br />
Even though Marc Jacobs didn’t made any<br />
political statement in his interviews, his inspiration<br />
speaks for itself. His latest collection is<br />
one hundred percent inspired in the black world<br />
and the hip hop era. His starting point was the<br />
Netflix documentary: The Hip Hop Revolution. I<br />
could not help it but see Shaolin Fantastic from<br />
The Get Down, in some of the proposed outfits<br />
for the next season.<br />
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Another brand that included a political connotation<br />
in his nineties-minimal style on the Black<br />
Lives Matter theme was that of Nicholas K.<br />
Most of the models used gold and black berets,<br />
the style being a reminder of the The Black<br />
Panthers, who defended the minorities during<br />
the strong era of civil rights movement.<br />
Talking about minorities in the XXI century is<br />
also talking about the now heavily-attacked<br />
NICHOLAS K FALL <strong>2017</strong>
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