Fashion on Fil: Fashioning Faith – FESCH.TV

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Join stylist Saba Ali for a conversation about “Fashioning Faith,” a short documentary exploring what it means to be young, female and Muslim in America today.

About the Film
When Westerners think of the Islamic veil, the image of women in burkas or the black chador may come to mind. But what about the Muslim woman who easily combines her headscarf with jeans or even couture gowns? “Fashioning Faith” takes a behind-the-scenes look at the emerging world of Islamic fashion and U.S.-based clothing designers who make it possible. The film interweaves interviews and verité footage from an array of Muslim women with one goal in common: to express their faith through fashion. (Yasmin Moll, 2009, 22 minutes.)

About Saba Ali
Saba Ali is a stylist and homeschooling mother of four residing in Northern California. Ali left the corporate world to be home with her children and, eventually, launch her own styling venture, Style By Design Image Consulting. In 2020 Saba was a stylist for the exhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.

About Fashion on Film
Discussions on documentary and feature films explore the world of fashion, design, sustainability and global textile traditions.

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