InSalaam InShalom

The catwalk show for Insalaam InShalom


when the show started the first thing I heard was the music, quite effective to start off with, it gives the sense of power, the floors was designed Israelis and Palestinians six pointed stars in a blue tape, the model were walking one by one over those lines. It was simple but interesting show.

 The black and white photographs of models behind the stage and the platted hair style.

                        
                         

ThreeASFOUR InSalaam InShalom Exhibition

 

         ThreeASFOUR InSalaam InShalom Exhibition

                                       

 

Three ASFOUR Insalaam Inshalom – “Judaism and Islam can live side by side” Here is a mixture of different backgrounds the Judaism and Islam, the designers (Three ASFOUR) are Gabi Asfour, Adi Gil and Ange Donhauser, who runs a fashion label since 1998.This collection influenced by both culture, they have used Israelis and Palestinians both: six pointed stars and kaffiyeh patterns, the evil eye and the Hamsa designs.  I was interested with peace and unity message given and were presented on their Spring/Summer 2012 collection, the silhouette was symbolic motifs with print techniques on  billowing, fluttering silk chiffon and silk de chine dresses, on the other hand I find it quiet modernist designs collaborating both traditional printed fabrics, which I think It works really well together. The patterns and the colours were visually effective and I was impressed with the ideas.

“We’ve accumulated the energy of artists and performers who are like-minded,” Asfour said. “We tried to balance things from all sides, though it’s always difficult.”

I found these images while i was doing my research online, the exhibition caught my eye, i personaly did like it and the concept was really inspirational.

“Fashion and beauty are tools to promote togetherness and unity in different countries and cultures,” Gil said. “We hope we can inspire other people to work together and not be scared of working together.”




This is one of the pieces I liked inside the collection, it is a skin colour breastplate were small broken pieces of ceramic were embellished on top, the ceramic had traditional floral designs and mostly blue colours been used. Visually impressive and affective, but my favourite one was brown dress with metallic motif were embellished all over also two Hamas metalic design was used on middle of the waist and the bottom section of the dress. This is traditionally designed in detailed, which I loved it because its sronger piece and it reflect to the concept. The three-colour combination of brown, metal (which is silver) also blue lines were great together.  

       

Islamic Culture

Muslim Woman

I have chosen Islamic woman for my subculture this is because my theme was based on hidden identity and wanted to continue further by looking at Muslim woman’s.  As a Muslim I personally think it is quite difficult situation and a responsibility to cover your body with Abaya (The black long traditional dress) and the face with Nigap were you can only see the eyes. In a way I found these woman’s quite brave because they are totally different to people around them and still are not making any difference when the seasons change specially in summer time. I was wondering how they feeling about and why they wearing these clothing so had a short conversation with my friend and these are the reason they hiding themselves.

·       Me: Why you wearing Hijab ( The scarf they  have on there hairs.)?

·       Friend: It is in the Quran that a girl should cover up...so does not attract a guy.

·       Me: Do you feel protective when you are covered? In what way and how it helps?

·       Friend: Yeah I do, well when you covered up it doesn’t show the shape of your body which means a guy are less likely to look at you...it also means people like rapists and pervs won’t even think about looking at you, that’s why I feel safe.!

·       Me: Getting covered does it helps you to hide your identity?

·       Friend: It hidden some identity...like if ma hair was messed up or if I wore the same top it wouldn’t be recognisable because you’re covered. 

I then searched  some shops in Oxford street which was a bad idea because couldn’t found much a relative resources, so I continued my researching online and used a photo shoot images from my previous project. This helped me to visualize the repetitive floral details and the colours. I then remembered that I have collated some images from Liberty in Oxford street, which were brand scarfs with bright colours and repetitive patterns. While my researches was going on, I found this punk hijabi girl on Google I found it really interesting, because i knew that they was colourful and shiny patterns were used by a Muslim woman’s because they love being fancy and love jewellery all over themselves but punk and Islam is two cultures that opposite each other in different ways and i was quite surprised when i saw her designed punky hair scarf, it was pretty much unique, also hides the real personality of a person because Islam is restricted religious which is not open for notion of becoming stylish.

Punk HIjabi

 This images from online while i was researching on stylish hijabi (scarf)

Repititive patterns and colours

This image from liberty when I was doing my research in Oxford street, it a brand scarfs I can't remember the name but was £200 which I found it really expensive although I was more interested with the brightness and the soft feeling of the material.

These images from my friends face book well she doesn't know that I am using her photos :) but couldn't found much resources during my research in Oxford street, these images was related to what I was researching about but it also has the bright colour, patterns and a Muslim lady which covered her identity.

              

Shelter..

 

This is one of my previous project while I was in college, the theme was shelter and we had to research some materials to represents our shelter theme,then we used newpappers and traditonal scarfs to do our photshoot, I find it quite useful for my SubCulture theme and it relates to what im doing at the moment.!!  

Cindy Sherman

Cynthia "Cindy" Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits

My subculte was based on identity so i decided to search some photographers which will help me to expand my ideas, Cindy sherman photographing herself in different identity's by using variouse of equipment. Iam not really interested with her work but i found it bit strange of why shes inetrested with peoples identity and faces although shes known by her conceptual photographs. I was also looking at how costumes and make-up can make a massive change on her person.