Wearers Academy series
Virtual conversation
Veiling in Fashion: Dress and Modesty
Wednesday 30th of June 2021
40 participants
Guest speakers: Zinah Nur Sharif and Anna Mari-Almila.
Zinah Nur Sharif
Zinah is a modest fashion veteran, who has worked in the fashion industry for the last 10 years. She has an appetite for customs, arts and branding within fashion. Zinah has lived in four different cities, across three different territories. She has a BA in Graphic Design and a MA in Strategic Fashion Marketing.
Anna-Mari Almila
Anna-Mari is Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion. She writes about the materiality of dressed bodies and their environments & fashion globalisation. She is the author of Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities (2018) and the Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (2017). She has been researching veiling in fashion for the last 11 years.
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