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Leila Yavari: Fashion Star

Draws Inspiration From Persia

Al-Monitor met on the sidelines of Paris’ fashion week with Leila Yavari — an Iranian-American former political science Ph.D. student at Berkley turned fashion model, turned fashion director for StyleBop.com. The stunning young woman was born in Iran in 1978. A year later, she left with her family during the revolution that toppled the Shah and gave birth to the Islamic Republic. She talked about her trip back to Iran as young adult and her Persian heritage, which informed both her professional choices and esthetics. She would love for Iran to be known beyond the news, as an art-loving country.

Al-Monitor: You left Iran as a baby, have you been back since?

Yavari: I went back twice as a child and in 2001 to do research on Brechtian theater in Iran for my Master’s essay. I felt more connected to Iran before I went back as an adult […] I realized that not having lived through the Iran-Iraq war, not having lived there through the past 20 years, I didn’t have a meaningful relationship with what the people have gone through so I felt a little bit inadequate, not very authentic.

Having left right during the revolution, I think I grew up with a lot of assumptions of what the country what like before and what the country was like afterwards, and a lot of those assumptions were put to the test. For example, Brecht’s plays were not allowed to perform before 1979 and they were after 1979, which is really interesting. And a lot of the people I spoke to were playwrights, artists. These people were kind of the foot soldiers of the revolution and they hadn’t really given up on the revolution, and they were saying, “You know, before the revolution I could wear mini-jupes [skirts] and drink whisky, but I couldn’t vote.” That was really interesting >>>

16-Oct-2012
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Shemirani

Very Beautiful but not very smart

by Shemirani on

“You know, before the revolution I could wear mini-jupes [skirts] and drink whisky, but I couldn’t vote.”

What is she talking about ???Iranian woman get the right to vote (and the right present to elected) in 1962  !This was one of the main reason of Khomeyini 's Anger and his opposition to the Shah in 1963 !!!!

I wonder who told her this and  she is  repeating like parrot in her interview without checking it ...All the readers will take it as a reality ! 

Az maast ke bar maast ! majority of us don't even read about our own history but we talk much.... !

 

 

 


Azarbanoo

SHe needs to get a life with her Ph.D.

by Azarbanoo on

which was not worthy to cling to fashion.


amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

lol

by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on

the foot soldiers of the revolution and they hadn’t really given up on
the revolution, and they were saying, “You know, before the revolution I
could wear mini-jupes [skirts] and drink whisky, but I couldn’t vote.”
That was really interesting.

I'm sure it was really interesting lol, now they can vote for "the vetted candidates by god team on earth", though since 1979 the votes have not been counted.

Poor thing she left Iran for the USA and works in Germany today, as a phd she knows deep down the country and government behind her trauma and her families trauma in having to leave Iran and the true reasons for it and why it can't be changed due to the motives of the west.  She must be sad that Iran is way down in terms of importance in the world of science, art and freedom and human rights, where as Iran was improving in all these areas before the USA and anti-monarchists betrayed Iran.


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