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The Business of Fashion Podcast Episode 49: Modest Fashion

Halima Aden — the first hijab-wearing fashion model on the runways in New York and Milan — and Carine Roitfeld discuss modest dressing as a cultural and political issue.
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IMG model Halima Aden and Carine Roitfeld, editor-in-chief of CR Fashion Book, discussed modest dressing as a cultural and political issue at #BoFVOICES. Watch the video here.

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