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Modest Fashion Is the Star At 2024 Cannes Film Festival

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Covered-up dressing is a tool for playfulness, choice and creativity — not a hindrance to self-expression.

By
Natalie Michie

Date May 24, 2024

Fashion is always functioning as a statement. What you choose to put on your body, whether it’s intentional or not, sends a message to the outside world about who you are. But for women who adhere to modest fashion — a style often shrouded by reductive associations of restraint — these clothing connotations are more complicated. On the Cannes 2024 red carpet, Somali-born star Rawdah Mohamed is using her covered-up looks to push the conversation forward.

Last year, the model went viral after sporting Robert Wun’s scorched bride couture creation on the Cannes 2023 red carpet. The macabre moment was made even more memorable with her hijab peaking through the burnt veil. And this year, with the help of stylist Amar Faiz, her risk-taking has reached new heights. Throughout the celeb-crowded film festival, Mohamed has stood out in two exquisite ensembles that complement her conservative garb.

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First, she donned a customized version of Cheney Chan’s aqua-coloured gown from the label’s Spring 2024 collection. Featuring a gravity-defying structural wave

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How To Wear The Oversized Clothes – Baggy Fashion For Guys

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There was a time when wearing clothes so baggy they needed a staple gun to stay on was less of style move, more your mum making sure you could make it through puberty in the same school blazer.

But if you graduated any time in the last 15 years, chances are you grew up to enjoy clothes that were designed slim and flattering – clothes that didn’t just hang on your shoulders. For the majority of the 21st century, menswear has been dominated by skinny cuts.

Under the influence of Hedi Slimane at Dior Homme and later Saint Laurent, men’s wardrobes were shrink-wrapped around the mid-2000s. It was all muscle shirts, slimline tailoring and indie bands in skinny-fit everything. But in recent years, the fashion pendulum had swung back.

It was partly a reaction to what came before, but the oversized trend also went hand-in-hand with the rise of hip-hop fashion and athleisure into the mainstream. Kanye West’s longline tees and chunky hoodies were one part, the billowing suits of Kim Jones, Demna Gvasalia, Patrick Grant and Virgil Abloh another.

Compared with spray-on jeans and nip-and-tuck tailoring, this is comfort as fashion. Wide-leg trousers, slouchy blazers, boxy tees and blanket

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25
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Bob Marley’s Style: Exploring His Most Iconic Looks

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From the man who gave us the anthemic “Redemption Song,” it’s time to redeem him from all the blurs of head-shop posters, T-shirts, and weed references in which we lost the real Bob Marley and look back at the iconic and truly authentic fashion style the King of Reggae has blessed us with. 

Understanding why he emerged as an iconic fashion figure shows us how Bob Marley’s affordable and effortlessly cool style was more than just a fashion choice but a reflection of his lifestyle and political and spiritual beliefs. His style deeply resonated with and empowered generations worldwide, seamlessly blending aesthetic appeal with profound cultural significance.

Bob Marley passed away over 40 years and is considered one of the most influential and best-selling artists ever. A movie about him seems long overdue. Bob Marley: One Love hit theaters this February 14 to great critical acclaim, and the biopic chronicles the time when Bob Marley survived an assassination attempt in Jamaica, leading to his exile in London. During this period, he produced his albums Exodus and Kaya, released in 1977 and 1978, respectively.

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Shopee, TikTok, and Lazada dominate Ramadan shopping in Southeast Asia

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For Fauzi Arif Hutama, who lives in the Indonesian city of Tangerang in Java, the holy month of Ramadan and celebrations for Eid al-Fitr are another excuse to check out deals on Shopee, the most popular e-commerce site in the country.

The 29-year-old electrician buys everything from clothing to food for his four pet cats on the Singapore-based Sea’s Shopee site. For Eid, which falls on April 10, he plans to spend his holiday bonus — equivalent to his monthly salary of 9 million rupiah ($566) — on snacks and refreshments for his relatives and neighbors and to also make charitable donations online. 

“I cannot remember the last time I bought something at a shopping mall,” he told Rest of World. “I do all my shopping online on Shopee.”

Hutama is not alone. Almost nine in 10 Muslim consumers in Indonesia will do some of their Ramdan shopping on Shopee, according to a recent survey by research firm YouGov. Lazada, Indonesia’s Tokopedia, and TikTok Shop are the other favored e-commerce sites, according to the survey, with shoppers saying they plan to buy more clothing, cosmetics, household appliances, and food and drinks online rather than offline and to make more

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Style Check: Dajia Milan’s whimsical approach to fashion

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Ah, Spring! The sun is setting a little later every evening, the birds are evidently hosting a world conference outside my window every morning, and the temperatures are finally starting to warm up where I live. The changing seasons are a fantastic time to look through your wardrobe, clean out the pieces you haven’t worn in a year, and identify the gaps you need to fill.

Just this morning, I thought about—wait for it—shorts. At the tail end of last summer, I found myself reaching for pants and jeans more often than my beloved 5-inch inseam shorts. Blame it on changing trends, an aging body, or just being bored with the options out there, but it seems that overnight, I couldn’t fathom wearing the same styles and silhouettes I’d been donning for years. Keep scrolling to shop some of my current favorite pairs.

My goal for this season? To try and find the styles that’ll take me into the summer (and hopefully the next few summers) and keep me looking fresh—a rebrand

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