The Frankfurt Museum for Applied art in a recent Show of Muslim fashion. Director Matthias Wagner K was criticized in the run-up violently. In this Interview, he explains how political fashion can be.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Multi-Billion Dollar Market
“Modest” is the name of the fashion for Muslim women, what is so hot as much as “modest”, “decent” or “less physical”. It celebrates the veiling of the female body. 44 billion dollars, the market for Muslim fashion in the year. Labels from all over the world want a piece of the pie. Our picture shows Raşit Bağzıbağlıs “Desert Dream Collection” for “Modanisa”.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
A fashionable accessory?
On the bandana are the ghosts: The one to wear it voluntarily, the others have no choice. In Muslim countries such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Yemen, strict dress rules apply. In Germany, the headscarf is sometimes a political Signal. Our picture comes from the Video “Somewhere in America”. For these young women, the head scarf is a fashionable accessory.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
A blow against women’s rights?
The exhibition organizers downplay the Islamic dress code as a fashion trend? A group of “secular migrants says”. The exhibition, they write, was “a blow to women’s rights and make the religious police in some Islamic countries have in common”. One of the group, the Frankfurt-exiled Iranian women’s rights activist Monireh Kazemi.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Dispute over fashion
From Haute Couture, through street wear to sports apparel: The exhibition in the Frankfurt Museum for Applied art and skewers the phenomenon of contemporary Muslim fashion. Before the opening of the Show, which comes from San Francisco in the United States suggested that high waves. Our picture shows young Muslim women in the javelin throw in the occupied West Bank.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Strict Controls
Body scans and bag checks like at the airport – the security arrangements at the entrance are strict. And, apparently, also needed: the Director of The Museum received threats. A feminist protested inside: only if the image of a stoned woman, is the exhibition acceptable. That alone shows how political the Show is. In the image: a Muslim woman in Hijab swimsuit.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Evil Premonition
As the exhibition in the autumn of 2018 in San Francisco opened, reckoned curator Max Hollein with massive criticism. You’ll blame him, perhaps, to pay homage to a fashion, speculated that he, who celebrate the oppression of women. But then everything turned to Trumps ban on entry for citizens of Muslim countries. In Hollein’s colleagues in Frankfurt, his fear is coming.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Fashion in addition to policy
Also, the large sports article manufacturers are big business with the Islamic fashion. The image shows a fighter in a full-body Outfit of Nike. In addition, the Show revolves on the subject of Muslim-hostility: a bomber jacket – in Arabic script – the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution printed. He guaranteed freedom of religion.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Fashion on Instagram and co.
Countless bloggers, Influencers, and fashion magazines devote themselves to the Muslim fashion world. So-called “Hijabistas” celebrate on Instagram, the traditional head scarf as a fashion Must-have. This aspect comes in the exhibition “Contemporary Muslim Fashion”, the yet to 1. To see September in the Frankfurt Museum for Applied art, to language.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Multi-Billion Dollar Market
“Modest” is the name of the fashion for Muslim women, what is so hot as much as “modest”, “decent” or “less physical”. It celebrates the veiling of the female body. 44 billion dollars, the market for Muslim fashion in the year. Labels from all over the world want a piece of the pie. Our picture shows Raşit Bağzıbağlıs “Desert Dream Collection” for “Modanisa”.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
A fashionable accessory?
On the bandana are the ghosts: The one to wear it voluntarily, the others have no choice. In Muslim countries such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Yemen, strict dress rules apply. In Germany, the headscarf is sometimes a political Signal. Our picture comes from the Video “Somewhere in America”. For these young women, the head scarf is a fashionable accessory.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
A blow against women’s rights?
The exhibition organizers downplay the Islamic dress code as a fashion trend? A group of “secular migrants says”. The exhibition, they write, was “a blow to women’s rights and make the religious police in some Islamic countries have in common”. One of the group, the Frankfurt-exiled Iranian women’s rights activist Monireh Kazemi.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Dispute over fashion
From Haute Couture, through street wear to sports apparel: The exhibition in the Frankfurt Museum for Applied art and skewers the phenomenon of contemporary Muslim fashion. Before the opening of the Show, which comes from San Francisco in the United States suggested that high waves. Our picture shows young Muslim women in the javelin throw in the occupied West Bank.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Strict Controls
Body scans and bag checks like at the airport – the security arrangements at the entrance are strict. And, apparently, also needed: the Director of The Museum received threats. A feminist protested inside: only if the image of a stoned woman, is the exhibition acceptable. That alone shows how political the Show is. In the image: a Muslim woman in Hijab swimsuit.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Evil Premonition
As the exhibition in the autumn of 2018 in San Francisco opened, reckoned curator Max Hollein with massive criticism. You’ll blame him, perhaps, to pay homage to a fashion, speculated that he, who celebrate the oppression of women. But then everything turned to Trumps ban on entry for citizens of Muslim countries. In Hollein’s colleagues in Frankfurt, his fear is coming.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Fashion in addition to policy
Also, the large sports article manufacturers are big business with the Islamic fashion. The image shows a fighter in a full-body Outfit of Nike. In addition, the Show revolves on the subject of Muslim-hostility: a bomber jacket – in Arabic script – the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution printed. He guaranteed freedom of religion.
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Muslim fashion in the visor: “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”
Fashion on Instagram and co.
Countless bloggers, Influencers, and fashion magazines devote themselves to the Muslim fashion world. So-called “Hijabistas” celebrate on Instagram, the traditional head scarf as a fashion Must-have. This aspect comes in the exhibition “Contemporary Muslim Fashion”, the yet to 1. To see September in the Frankfurt Museum for Applied art, to language.
Deutsche Welle: Mr. Wagner K, you sell your show as a pure fashion exhibition. It is the?
Matthias Wagner K: Yes, first of all, it is the. It shows the phenomenon of contemporary Muslim fashion, which is known under the term “modest fashion”, so “less stressed”, “decent”, even if it is the in many Parts. She takes, and that makes this exhibition, the diverse and in different countries regionally-influenced current interpretations of Muslim fashion in the view. And she shows how Muslim women to implement their own fashionable notions of “modest fashion”. It is a global phenomenon.
They speak of a global phenomenon. There are countries in which veiling and veiling of the female body not as a liberation, is perceived. How to match fashion and women’s rights?
Director Matthias Wagner K, Museum for Applied art in Frankfurt
I believe that fashion, as it is also the exhibition’s initiator, Max Hollein says, is a exaltierter expression of a cultural state. The issue of women’s rights, we are not brackets at all. There are very many photographs, and contributions by artists such as Shirin Neshat, the explicitly the oppression of women address that, if you need rules to fight back against this clothing, your life or your integrity fear.
Woman accuse rights activists of you, you played down most Islamic dress code as a fashion trend?
These rules, of which the speech is not to be found in the shown in the exhibition exhibits. You show not a single Burka. Where it is shown, it is a critical, artistic contribution, or street photography. No, the exhibition shows just a lot of young women, who dress extremely self-conscious, self-determined and modest, with hijab or not, and a completely new image of the Muslim woman to represent. This has nothing to do with the relevant stereotypes.
In Germany there is no such strict dress codes. What is your Position on the keyword “veiling” of the female body?
Of course, it is to fight it, if it is a rule. We must stand up for freedom and self-determination. This also means that a Muslim woman, so she does it in a self-determined, and can dress accordingly. I mean, not a burqa. Because of this, I am convinced, would probably attract no woman voluntarily, if not behind it, reprisals would, Patriarchal notions of men, suppression mechanisms, and much more.
You have already received in advance of the exhibition threats and harsh criticism. Are You Afraid Of?
We must take these threats of this very personal hate mail very seriously. To ensure the protection of visitors, we will make checks at the entrance to the entrance to the Museum. This is new to us, I have to say is quite clear. But when I run the Photography Foundation in the European Central Bank (ECB) visits, I will be scanned completely by. If I Concord to the football Association in Frankfurt want to go, I checked.
But here’s something else: the many hate-filled emails show that here in Germany the bigger threat for Muslims but for people that don’t want to understand because of their faith, as part of the company. I think this is something we look. And it shows that fashion is, by nature, can never be completely apolitical, because it picks up a wide variety of societal problems that it comes to Gender and identity, and also to sustainability.
The exhibition “Contemporary Muslim Fashions” is from the 5. April until 1. To see September 2019 in the Museum for Applied art in Frankfurt.
The conversation with Matthias Wagner K’s Stefan Dege.