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DESIRE MOHEB ZANDI

She watched her grandmother weave in Turkey. Then she put rubber tubing and acrylic dowels through the same loom. Desire Moheb-Zandi — Berlin-born, Istanbul-raised, New York-marching — on textile art as feminist statement, the loom as analogue computer, and why we need activists more than ever.

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Inside Nafsika Skourti’s Fashion Vision

A handwritten letter from a loved one. Political graffiti scrawled on a prison wall. A page ripped from an old newspaper. Inscriptions from a 1937 coin. These are the fragments of Palestinian life that Nafsika Skourti has embedded into fabric. Not as metaphor. As documentation. Volume II: Traces of Being is the second chapter in her series حُبِّي فِلَسطِين, My Love, Palestine, and it is among the most important things happening in fashion right now.

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