"Young Muslim designs a new cultural understanding" by Linda Matchan | Globe Staff September 14, 2014
LEWISTON, Maine — Sahro Hassan is a devout Muslim who prays five times a day. She is a fashion designer and budding entrepreneur who loves “America’s Next Top Model” and “Project Runway.” She is a change agent for her people and, in some ways, for her adopted hometown.
She is all of 18.
A self-proclaimed “Islamanista,” or Muslim fashionista, Hassan has set out to encourage other Muslim women to feel confident enough to express themselves through fashion. Why, she wonders, can’t a young woman be modest and stylish at the same time?
“I’m not doing fashion because I want to go away from my culture,” said Hassan, who is dressed headscarf-to-toe in leopard prints. “I’m doing fashion because I want to keep my culture and make sure the next generation of kids understand their culture.”
Hassan has had to bridge several worlds in her young life. Her Somali parents fled to Kenya in the early 1990s to escape the horrors of civil war, and she grew up in refugee camps. Her family moved to the United States when she was 10, which was difficult for Hassan, who didn’t know what the United States was when she left Africa. She spoke only one word of English (“hello”) and was illiterate in her native language.
Eight years later, Hassan has graduated from high school with honors. She has a business called Fashionuji and designs bold, edgy clothes for Muslim women that are “on trend,” she said, but modest enough to meet Muslim religious standards. She took first prize in Maine’s Future Business Leaders of America competition and the “Girls Rock Award” for entrepreneurship from Hardy Girls, Healthy Women, a Maine nonprofit. She just started a four-year fashion design program at Newton’s Mount Ida College.
By all accounts, she’s had an impact on this challenged city of 36,500. Perhaps inadvertently, she’s helped make the case for tolerance in a city that has made national headlines for intolerance....
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