New York Fashion Week sees a lot of revolution on the
runway, but one Muslim designer leads to bring something fully new to the
catwalk current year.
A Muslim fashion designer has made history as the first ever
designer to feature hijabs in each outfit on a New York Fashion Week catwalk on
the runway.
She belongs from Indonesian. Born in Jakarta in 1986 (age 30
years ), started her first boutique in Kemang in very first days of 2015. She
made her fashion debut in London in March 2015 and has travelled to the United
States and Europe to showcase her unique designed work. In the middle of
September 2016, she was the first being to feature the hijab in each look in
her collection at New York Fashion Week.
Hasibuan was applauded crosswise over social media for
helping bring Islamic fashion into the standard like others before her. In
2015, Muslim designer Hana Tajim cooperated with Mariah Idrissi and Uniqlo
appeared in a campaign with H&M wearing a hijab. Hasibuan's show is part of
an effective new trend.
About Hijab—the head covering donned by lots of Muslim women
in public, isn’t normally considered synonymous with high fashion, particularly
in the western world. But times are changing.
Hijabs were spotted high and low at the New York Fashion
Week, on the catwalk and in the street style of participants. The event
highlighted its first appear of hijabs worn with every outfit. Muslim designer
Anniesa Hasibuan from Indonesian showcased her collection, inspired by her
hometown Jakarta, of beautiful/colorful silk and velvet tunics, gowns and
kimonos.
Every model wore a hijab in gold, dove grey or pale pink
silk. It is accepted to be the first time a New York Fashion Week catwalk show
has highlighted hijabs on each model.
The show consisted of 48 unique looks, of which 10 were
nightgowns and 38 were ready-to-wear pieces.
Following the show, Ms. Hasibuan took to the runway, where
she got a huge standing ovation from the audience.
Online lifestyle magazine Muslim Girl respected and welcomed
the collection, with reviewer Maha Syeda writing: “The Indonesian Muslim
designer brought together the ideal factors of her cultural home nation and the
metropolitan western fashion world to make a lovely harmony of modesty and
fashion, because, yes, they do not have to clash.”
Fans of the Muslim designer Anniesa Hasibuan took to social
media to praise for her collection, with one fan calling the show “completely
stunning”. Another wrote, “this was everything!”
She says, in response to this, there has been a move towards
the hijab or jilbab Shari'a - presented as more suitable modern Islamic dress,
since it is long and loose and doesn't show a woman's curves.
For numerous young Muslim ladies, the hijab is not a
statement or a symbol, but simply part of their identity, an identity they are
asserting more confidently.
Ms. Hasibuan has beforehand held shows at major fashion
capitals including Paris and London but this was her first catwalk in the
United State.
New York Fashion Week ran from 8th to 15th September this
year. Over the catwalk shows, around 125,000 people are evaluated to attend the
shows while another 2 million watch online by means of live streams.
"I am so thankful to local and international media from
Indonesia for exposing my show in US. I didn't realize the outcome can be this
amazing, and I am humbled and thrilled by the welcome reaction given,"
Hasibuan told CNN.
