Fashion
To wear the hajib (or not)
By Liyana Illyas Djenabou Diallo’s loose blue jeans were paired with a long-sleeve, flowy white shirt and a cornflower blue hijab. Mariam Sayeed wore her cream-colored, three-quarter-length sleeved T-shirt with blue jeans and a periwinkle colored hijab. Both are Muslim, dressed to reflect their religious beliefs that women should be more covered up in public, […]
Plain Jane? Or create your own fashion lane?
By Charles Joseph The mannequin in the window of Muji wears a camp-collared, navy shirt of 100% linen. Ryan Chung, the 29-year-old sales clerk in that boutique on Cooper Square, wears a navy linen shirt from Muji, too, but it’s an oxford button-down. “Plain, flat, very, uh, natural,” Chung said of what he was wearing […]
H&M works to undo “fast fashion” harms
By Chaeyoon Baek Surbhi Chaudhari was on her way to the cash register with a white shirt and blue denim jeans from H&M’s 12-year-old line of clothing made of recycled synthetic fabric or natural ones like cotton, linen and wool. “I try to buy sustainable clothes, and I avoid something which is not organic,” said […]