And if the garments won't do it, our missiles and bombs will.
"Harrods offers fashion for Muslim women; Qatar fund bought retailer in May" by Henry Meyer and Heidi Couch, Bloomberg News | July 14, 2010
Designer Hind Beljafla uses splashes of color, embroidery, and even leather on the plain black abaya. (Gabriela Maj/Bloomberg News)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — These women can buy her elegant versions of the black Islamic robes, which obscure the contours of a woman’s body, when they head to London this summer to escape the Arabian Peninsula’s sweltering heat. Harrods started selling abayas by Beljafla’s DAS Collection in June, a month after Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund bought the landmark store.
Related:
"Harrods store sold to Qatari investors
LONDON — Mohamed Al Fayed, a flamboyant businessman who has controlled Harrods department store in London for a quarter-century, has sold the landmark business to Qatari investors, his financial advisers said yesterday. The sale price was not announced, but the BBC and Sky News reported that it was around $2.2 billion. Fayed, a native of Egypt, joined with his two brothers to buy Harrods in 1985. His son Dodi died with Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris in 1997 (AP)."
That is who they bought it from?
“Muslim women are like any women around the world: They love fashion and love shopping,’’ Beljafla, 24, said in her store here.
Yeah, I have been TRYING to get that POINT across here!!
They LOVE their KIDS and FAMILIES, too!!!!
Fashion houses in Milan and Paris are waking up to the commercial potential for Muslim women’s clothing that respects religious values and sets new standards for style....
Then WHY are European countries SHUTTING DOWN the MARKET with their REACTIONARY and TYRANNICAL dress codes?
The abayas are displayed alongside designer evening gowns on the women-only floor of a shopping mall in Riyadh’s glass skyscraper, the Kingdom Center....
Saudi Arabia, which follows a strict interpretation of Islam, forbids mixing in public between unrelated men and women....
Yeah, somehow they seem to get a pass most of the time in the agenda-pushing AmeriKan press. Must be the oil.
Paris-based Jean-Claude Jitrois has made abayas for several Saudi princesses as well as a collection of 40 for sale at Saks Fifth Avenue.
“There is no contradiction between the modernity of European fashion and modernity of Middle Eastern women,’’ he said. “Every culture has its traditions, and you have to respect this while giving it a twist.’’
Not if you are a MP in Europe.
Abayas have proved popular at Harrods in London, where summertime visitors from the Gulf throng the streets of the upscale Knightsbridge district.
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