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It’s Vogue for the veiled! Turkish fashion magazine created for women who wear headscarves
Daily Mail ^
| 01/29/12
| Katie Silver
Posted on 03/30/2012 5:25:46 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Its Vogue for the veiled! Turkish fashion magazine created for women who wear headscarves
By Katie Silver
UPDATED: 00:55 GMT, 29 January 2012
A magazine for the modern, fashion-conscious Muslim woman is proving that when it comes to Turkey, you don't need bikinis, breasts and legs to sell issues.
Outraged when he saw photos of transsexuals in a magazine, devout Muslim Ibrahim Burak Birer, 31 decided to create a magazine in Istanbul that would contest the diktat of nudity. With his friend Mehmet Volkan Atay, 32, he created Alâ, a magazine described as the avant-garde of veiled fashion.
Alâ, which is Turkish for the most beautiful of the beautiful, only shows models in headscarves and will only advertise clothing that conforms to Islamic customs. Cosmopolitan, Elle, Vogue, Marie Claire, it's all about sex and naked skin, says Mr Birer. The motto is that sex sells. But we, and millions of women around the world, believe that fashion can also be different.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Local News; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: fashion; turkey
To: TigerLikesRooster
They can have theirs, while Americans have:
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:28:46 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I can see their eyes and driving me sex crazy.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:30:37 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
To: razorback-bert
so, are these head scarves to make them look like young boys ?
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:39:27 PM PDT
by
molson209
To: TigerLikesRooster
I like chicks in scarves too.
No wait...they want them wrapped around their heads and face? Forget that noise.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:42:37 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:44:46 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
A realistic one:
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:49:42 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: Daffynition
Reminds me of that old cartoon of an arab leering at an unfurled centerfold as he covers the model’s lower face with his hand.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:50:06 PM PDT
by
davius
(You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Al Qaeda's women's magazine:
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:55:57 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Doesn’t the whole concept of “fashion” - however it’s defined - contradict the Muzzie insanity? Aren’t those women supposed to stay home in their gray/black colorless outfits? None of this makes any sense.
To: TigerLikesRooster
The motto is that sex sells. But we, and millions of women around the world, believe that fashion can also be different. Well, by the looks of these covers, it seems the propensity to use pre-teen models is as alive & well in Muslim cultures as Western.
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posted on
03/30/2012 6:06:44 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I've made one visit to a Middle Eastern country...Dubai,one of the more "liberal" moslem countries in the region.I saw many,many women there with their heads/faces covered...some with their *entire* face covered (you couldn't even see their eyes).One thing that amazed me,however,was that regardless of how completely they were covered most of them had the fanciest shoes you can imagine.
Very strange,IMO....and very surprising.
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posted on
03/30/2012 6:10:34 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President To Have Served In My Lifetime.)
To: Gay State Conservative
I hear that inside their home, they can be more colorful than women in the west. Maybe not miniskirts but very fancy accessories, closes and shoes.
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posted on
03/30/2012 6:14:16 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Headbags 'R Us !
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posted on
03/30/2012 8:35:33 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Correction: closes —> clothes
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posted on
03/30/2012 9:31:43 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
03/30/2012 10:00:33 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit ;-{)
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