Our project comes from the heart, my inspiration comes from the desire to be able to represent through fashion, the lives of great women fighters.
Questioning beliefs… Craving for change and growth… The need for direct involvement in the social, ecological, and human reality… The opening of borders and bringing together ways of life…
These are some of the inspiring reasons for this project, which aims to bring us closer to real stories of women coping with living in disadvantaged areas or in war.
The illustrations of our designs narrate the experiences, yearnings and needs of women who struggle daily in dreadful conditions.…
So each season will develop based on a different country inspired by the heroine women of the country to be covered.
By raising awareness of the realities of these women and intervening in them, we can empower them to play a vital role in economically and socially disadvantaged places, and promote a global energy movement that gives women back the rights they deserve and sadly still lack today.
By raising awareness of the realities of these women and intervening in them, we can empower them to play a vital role in economically and socially disadvantaged places, and promote a global energy movement that gives women back the rights they deserve and sadly still lack today.
For our first season, the country selected was Syria and our inspirational muse is Asia Ramazan.
We seek to unite through our creations the women and men who, from very different realities, will be the engine of change capable of achieving the desired transformation towards a world more respectful of the people that form it, and towards a more global human consciousness.
Asia Ramazan
In the first design of the season, we see Asia Ramazan fused with a bird that supports its own neck and arm, portraying freedom, hope and looking to the future. Next to it, birds taking flight towards the sky further emphasise the idea of a free spirit.
At the end of 2014, at the age of 16, she joined the ranks of the people’s militia of the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units to fight the Islamic State, where she adopted the guerrilla name Viyan Antar.
After completing her military training, she was sent to the battle frontline against the El militants.
As one of the many middle-aged fighters in the Kurdish militia, she stood out in the international media by being called “the Kurdish Angelina Jolie” because of her physical resemblance.
These comparisons with the American actress caused repudiation and rejection from her fellow militia fighters and combatants, and activists of the Kurdish cause who called the comparisons sexist and a reification campaign.
The Kurdish Women’s Protection Units, to which Asia Ramazan belonged, say that their philosophy was simplicity and modesty.
No one judged her by her appearance, but they praised her sacrifice for the good of others.
She took part in five battles before dying at the age of 19 at the hands of militants of the so-called Islamic State. She was a team leader and a gunner.
Choman Kanaani, an activist and Kurdish fighter, who condemned the western media’s treatment of Asia, stated to the BCC’s English media that “the entire philosophy of the WPU (Women’s Protection Units) is to fight against sexism and the use of women as objects of desire.” “We want to give women their rightful place in society and make them masters of their own destinies. Viyan (Asian war name) died for these ideals. No one in the media talks about the ideals she gave her life for, nor what Viyan did for women in Rojava in the last four years.”(biography written by obtaining information from different media).
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