11 November 2014 – Through fashion – “a universal language” – Palestinian-born designer Jamal Taslaq unveiled his Fall-Winter collection at United Nations Headquarters in New York last night, spotlighting his long-troubled homeland, but also revealing “another face of Palestine,” inspired and inspiring, yearning to be at peace.
“It’s a pleasure for me this evening to represent my people with this kind of art. Fashion is a universal language. It is a way to show the world and people that fashion can be used to show another face of Palestine,” Mr. Taslaq said in an interview with UN Radio ahead of the fashion show, one of several events at Headquarters in the run-up to the International Day of Solidary with the Palestinian People, observed annually on 29 November.
Born in Nablus, Palestine in 1970, Mr. Taslaq realized at the young age of 12 that he wanted to be a fashion designer and work with fabrics and embroidery. When he finished high school, Mr. Taslaq left for Jordan to study design and soon after moved to Italy in 1990.
“When I left Palestine I understood that I must do something for me and my people to show the world that we are the same as other people. We want a life. We want peace. We love. We have all the feelings that make us the same as other people,” he said...If, by all the feelings that makes us the same as other people" you mean that other people want to eliminate Israel too then, yeah, I guess he's right.
Presumably, the designer's collection doesn't include this Palestinian fashion statement:
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