{"id":899,"date":"2010-03-23T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T02:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/23\/style-islamfashion-label-for-islam\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T02:40:11","slug":"style-islamfashion-label-for-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/03\/23\/style-islamfashion-label-for-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Style Islam:Fashion label for Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Designers seek to shatter anti-Muslim stereotypes in West<\/h2>\n<div id=\"story-body\">\n<p><strong>WITTEN, Germany<\/strong> | T-shirts and hoodies declare &#8220;Terrorism has no religion.&#8221; A head-covering tunic bears the message: &#8220;Hijab. My right. My choice. My life.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A German fashion label is out to tell the world that Islam isn&#8217;t just compatible with Western values of tolerance and free expression \u2014 it can be hip, too. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iqu.co.in\/pix\/fashion.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The project was born in 2006 as Muslims protested across Europe against Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Designer Melih Kesmen became fed up with the anti-Muslim stereotypes that sprang up over the protests as well as the protesters&#8217; immature efforts. <\/p>\n<p>So Mr. Kesmen, a practicing Muslim born and raised in Germany to Turkish parents, decided to express his feelings through fashion. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I first created a sweater just for myself with the slogan &#8216;I love my Prophet&#8217; to take a stand as a peace-loving, tolerant Muslim,&#8221; said the 34-year-old designer, sporting designer glasses and a black goatee. <\/p>\n<p> The reaction was huge: People kept stopping him in the street to ask where he had found the top. <\/p>\n<p> Mr. Kesmen quickly realized he&#8217;d found a market gap. <\/p>\n<p>Together with his wife, Yeliz, he set out to create Style Islam, a brand of hip, casual clothing with Islamic-themed sayings as its focus. <\/p>\n<p>More than three years on, Style Islam offers 35 different motifs that playfully merge Islam and pop culture. Besides clothing, their collection also features bags and posters. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Women love buying rompers with the writing &#8216;Mini Muslim&#8217; across their chest,&#8221; said Mrs. Kesmen, 30, who wears a brown hijab, or headscarf, and silver nose stud. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designers seek to shatter anti-Muslim stereotypes in West WITTEN, Germany | T-shirts and hoodies declare &#8220;Terrorism has no religion.&#8221; A head-covering tunic bears the message: &#8220;Hijab. My right. My choice. My life.&#8221; A German fashion label is out to tell the world that Islam isn&#8217;t just compatible with Western values of tolerance and free expression&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/03\/23\/style-islamfashion-label-for-islam\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}