Hoda Katebi is the voice behind JooJoo Azad, the political fashion platform; author of the book Tehran Streetstyle, the first-ever photography book documenting and celebrating illegal fashion in Iran; host of #BecauseWeveRead, an international book club with over 30 global chapters; and founder of Blue Tin Production, an all-women immigrant and refugee-run clothing manufacturing co-operative in Chicago. Katebi is an abolitionist and community organiser, previously part of campaigns to end surveillance programmes, police militarisation and the prison industrial complex. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2016 where her research explored the intersections of fashion, gender, modelling, and the state in Iran.
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How Fashion Can Navigate 2020’s Political Minefield
For fashion brands with a global customer base, it's getting harder to stay neutral in the face of flashpoints like the Hong Kong protests and the US presidential election. Here's what to do.
How Fashion Can Navigate 2020’s Political Minefield
For fashion brands with a global customer base, it's getting harder to stay neutral in the face of flashpoints like the Hong Kong protests and the US presidential election. Here's what to do.
The BoF Podcast: Iran — A Fashion Industry Operating in the Underground
Activist Hoda Katebi speaks passionately about fashion’s ‘revolution-washing,’ while Tehran-based design duo Shirin and Shiva Vaqar lift the lid on the restrictive conditions faced by Iran’s emerging brands at VOICES 2019.
The BoF Podcast: Iran — A Fashion Industry Operating in the Underground
Activist Hoda Katebi speaks passionately about fashion’s ‘revolution-washing,’ while Tehran-based design duo Shirin and Shiva Vaqar lift the lid on the restrictive conditions faced by Iran’s emerging brands at VOICES 2019.
Watch The Best of This Year’s VOICES
Speakers including Alok Menon, Juergen Teller and Trisha Shetty reflect on the fashion industry's uncertain outlook.
Watch The Best of This Year’s VOICES
Speakers including Alok Menon, Juergen Teller and Trisha Shetty reflect on the fashion industry's uncertain outlook.
BoF VOICES Day 1: Fashion Confronts a Challenging Future
The industry is grappling with an uncertain outlook amid projections for slowing growth and mounting socio-political unrest, but new technology and business models offer hope for innovative solutions.
BoF VOICES Day 1: Fashion Confronts a Challenging Future
The industry is grappling with an uncertain outlook amid projections for slowing growth and mounting socio-political unrest, but new technology and business models offer hope for innovative solutions.
Inside Iran’s Underground Fashion Industry
Tehran-based fashion designers Shirin and Shiva Vaqar joined Hoda Katebi, an Iranian-American activist who founded America's first apparel manufacturing co-op run by refugee women. They discussed the fashion industry in Iran, a country that has long been isolated from the Western world.
Inside Iran’s Underground Fashion Industry
Tehran-based fashion designers Shirin and Shiva Vaqar joined Hoda Katebi, an Iranian-American activist who founded America's first apparel manufacturing co-op run by refugee women. They discussed the fashion industry in Iran, a country that has long been isolated from the Western world.