What’s In This Issue?
This Week’s Main Stories
Story 01How Muslim Fashion Is Bringing Modesty Back
Story 02Netflix’s Aggretsuko Offers Inside Portrait Of Feminine Rage
Story 0320th Century Fox To Launch "Choose Your Own Adventure" FilmEven More Stories
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How Muslim Fashion Is Bringing Modesty Back
Muslim fashion is an estimated $254 billion market but western brands have traditionally tried and failed to create designs that appeal to a wide range of Muslim women. New York based Islamic Fashion And Design Council (IFDC) founder Alia Khan believes it is because “they don’t understand that this audience is just as stylish and demanding of their fashion wardrobes as anybody else. What these women really want is the same miniskirt they saw on the runway, but slightly looser and longer.” This idea of the intersection of luxury and modesty is central to Muslim fashion, and may soon become a countertrend to overly revealing clothes like this pair of jeans that we routinely see in the market.
Netflix’s Aggretsuko Offers Inside Portrait Of Feminine Rage
According to this strong review from writer Dami Lee, a new Asian anime show Aggretsuko offers a "refreshingly accurate portrayal of working women in Asia — especially their pent-up rage in response to the ways they’re expected to perform in society." This rage is a concept I first wrote about in the trend Fierce Femininity from last year, and one that I continue to see new examples of almost every week. As the deeply ingrained expectations of women in many cultures start to be challenged by a new generation, entertainment will continue to be a powerful lens to spotlight the inequality and inspire not only more women to rebel against it, but perhaps help men to recognize it too.
20th Century Fox To Launch "Choose Your Own Adventure" Film
For anyone who loves storytelling, this is great news - and the plan is to use different endings and try to create a version of the film that stays true to the iconic books many of us remember from our youth. They already do this very effectively on their Facebook page, however this will offer a new storytelling opportunity that might also lead other films to try launching multiple film versions or different endings as well. I couldn't help thinking that something like this could have made seeing Avengers: Infinity War more fun this past weekend as well.
