MOSLIMA

photo: Stig/Sassen

If fashion is the look or the face of a society.
Than our face has changed in the past years. Mainly because of immigration, their large families and our ‘1,5 kids’ families, our look has changed quite extremely. Focussing on the randstad (Western Netherlands), our schools, our cities and streets are filled with brown eyes, brown hair, Middle-Eastern traditional clothes and scarfs.
Is it a new subculture popping up? What it is is a group of people with a religious cultural background who are showing it off.

Noone has really adressed this fact outside of a political or social opinion, focussing on problems and differences.
I would like to approach it with a more open view, NOT focussing on differences, and with a fashionable look on a group in our society called MOSLIMA’s. Mostly second generation, muslim, female, young, strong and fashionminded!

Being integrated in the Dutch society with their own trends, codes and fashion, these girls are part of a (in a sense..) revolutionary fashion movement. The 21th century clash between ‘covering’ Eastern and ‘seducing’ Western fashion.

I would like to address this now, with an exhibition in showroom MAMA.
And a publication, in the form of (ofcourse) a fashionmagazine.

Following our way of thinking is visible on our MOSLIMA weblog, check it out!