Rabia Z: Fashion Designer

I love beautiful and stylish clothes but feel that so much if it is inappropriate to wear as a practicing Muslim woman.  It certainly isn’t easy to make modest clothing stylish to Western eyes like mine, but Dubai-based fashion designer Rabia Z is giving it a shot. My bet is that we’ll see a lot more Muslim women designers trying their hand at it in the next few years, especially in the US and Europe.

Rabia Z was named Dubai Fashion Week’s “Emerging Talent Winner” and is also the winner of the British Council’s “Young Entrepreneur of the Gulf” award. She says, “I want to make modesty look beautiful and also show a more beautiful side of Islam in media…I want my designs to be a bridge between practicing Muslims and non-practicing. You don’t always have to show skin to look beautiful: you can look beautiful and remain covered at the same time.”

If you know of other designers (Muslim or not) who are designing beautiful and modest clothing, please do share.

Rabia Z’s website