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| Aljazeera: Fashion guru Armani backs the burqa |
| 2004-10-01 |
| Burkamania The Muslim veil or burqa has found a strong supporter in the Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani. Italian newspapers on Tuesday quoted the internationally famous designer as saying that it was no crime for a woman to wear the burqa. "It's a question of respect for the convictions and culture of others. We need to live with these ideas, we need to learn how to do it," Armani said. His remarks came after a small town in northern Italy sparked a controversy this month by fining a woman for venturing outdoors in a burqa - a full length robe covering the head and face which is worn by Muslim women. Though famous for his sexy, sophisticated outfits for women, Armani dismissed as absurd the view that women clad in the burqa are a possible terror threat. "To see a veiled woman on the streets of Paris used to have an exotic appeal. Now they are seen as terrorists and people take fright," he said. "You can be packed with explosives even with your face uncovered." A member of Italy's Northern League, which is part of the ruling coalition, denounced the burqa as a "symbol of death" because women involved in the Russian school siege of Beslan - that left over 300 people, more than half of them children, dead - had worn the robes. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #6 He has recongnized a growing market. Check for an aba or two in his srping line. It won't last, though. He start toying with the height of the ankle hem, get flagged with a few fatwas, give up the whole idea, commence attempts to provide a slimmer look to Aluets. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-10-01 10:24:25 PM |
| #5 Like everyone is going to rush out for the latest burka just because that ginzo likes them? |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-01 2:29:46 PM |
| #4 If he thinks they're so great, I'd suggest he wear one. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-01 1:58:16 PM |
| #3 darn, I was hoping he'd be showing off new fashions in suicide belts. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-10-01 11:20:06 AM |
| #2 Also, with opur suit, you can wear, inconspicuosly, some specially designed accessories, for instance a belt with higly explosive fashion statements. Armani Al Idjit |
| Posted by: Memesis 2004-10-01 8:20:21 AM |
| #1 How about a new, full body fashion suit? Simplicity of shape with high degree of elegance, with sexuality ever so faintly hinted--a forbidden fruit, deliciously flavored in marinade of bodily juices. Available in inobtrusive hue of black. |
| Posted by: Memesis 2004-10-01 8:15:25 AM |