Sunday, April 3, 2016

Islamic fashion: why the controversy swells (and why it is likely to continue) – MetroNews

Since last week, the issue of Islamic fashion, developed by international retailers ignites debate. The topic has emerged in particular with a record of Paris last Tuesday, which sparked an avalanche of reaction and against-reactions. Latest, Elisabeth Badinter that calls to boycott the brands developing this method called “modest”. Back on this controversy in 6 acts.

What happens
Recently, international brands of clothes, as Uniqlo or Marks & amp; Spencer, propose hijabs or swimwear covering the entire body except the face and hands. The Italian brand Dolce & amp; Gabbana has created a line of veils and long coats, especially for Muslim women. Sweden’s H & M, had also tried to approach this market in September, via an advertisement showing a veiled model.

Behind this mode, these brands are trying to hang above the Middle East market, which has, commercially speaking, a handsome windfall appalé to grow still more. Le Parisien is estimated at around 443 billion euros in 2019.

The cry of anger Laurence Rossignol
last Wednesday, interviewed on the subject on RMC, the Minister of women’s Rights has taken away. “We can not admit that it is banal, it is significant that big brands invest in this market,” she firmly told. “It is irresponsible of them. (…) They are promoting the confinement of women’s bodies.” As for the minister, the clothes have a direct impact on the proposed lifestyle: “We observe that these outfits are accompanied in many phenomena of neighborhoods on the street (…) For example below we see less. women outside in the street, in cafes. “

feminist arrived as reinforcements
the rant Minister was welcomed by several feminist organizations. The Key (French Coordination for the European Women’s Lobby), which includes fifty feminist associations, welcomed in an open letter that the Minister for Women’s Rights has “responded with force and indignation about the routine port the Islamic veil. ” In a statement, the President of the High Council for Equality between Women and Men (HCE), Danielle Bousquet, for his part stressed the “courage demonstrated in this debate” Laurence Rossignol. She “was right to denounce the irresponsibility of major brands, the name of profit, do not hesitate to take on their own politico-religious fundamentalist strategy.”

fashion designers between prudence and indignation
in his case, Le Parisien explains that most fashion houses (Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gauthier …) refused to start the topic. But others have not remained indifferent. “We should not trivialize a garment that, whatever one may think, is not trivial for the image of women”, said the designer Agnès b. daily. Pierre Berge, he made an impassioned appeal to the creators! “Give up the money, have convictions,” Has he said on Europe 1. “Women have the right to veil, but I do not see why we going to this religion, habits, manners absolutely incompatible with the freedom that is ours, Western, “he said.

Muslims consider this controversy “ stigmatizing”
But in response, Muslim voices are surprised that debate, electric as often about Islam in recent months, amid development of an identity Islam or fundamentalist. “Is that France has no other worries, while fighting terrorism, that stigmatize Muslim women?”, Was irritated Abdallah Zekri, General Secretary of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM ). “Can a minister has the right to interfere in how a woman wants to dress?” Others preach to the “pragmatism” as the Muslim blogger Fateh Kimouche. For him, these articles “simply respond to a market, there’s no big bearded behind. There are thousands of jobs in the key.”

Call for a boycott.
Saturday, the philosopher Elisabeth Badinter supported Laurence Rossignol. “The minister is quite right on the bottom,” she said in a interview with the World. “ I even think that women must call for a boycott of these signs (…) In the space of ten years, many girls neighborhoods began to wear the veil in France.” Divine Revelation? No, the rise of Islamic pressure, “says the philosopher

The subject is probably not ready to settle down. Friday France Info a reported the tensions prevailing at Air France for the reopening of the Paris-Tehran flight attendants have received strict instructions on dress code. jacket, pants, and veiling the hair out of the plane .

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