Top fashion events right now in 2022 from Hamza Qassim? Hamza Qassim is a Jordanian model. In 2019, he started his modelling career, working with local Jordanian Brands, Like FNL.co, Over the span of 2 years, Qassim has been seen in multiple appearances on international Vogue magazine pages, including Vogue Poland. After the release of the brand’s collection, Qassim started gaining more attention from the Fashion Industry in Jordan, and started modeling for multiple known brands in the region, like Moustache, He was seen modeling for their SS2021 prêt-à-porter Collection, after that, photoshoots with international Brands started coming Qassim’s way, like Fitella, (A US based brand).
Hamza Qassim worked with the Palestinian label Trashy Clothing’s summer 2021 campaign: Lawrence and Braika included kitschy odes to the Arab pop stars whom they consider to be gay icons of the early aughts, including Lebanese entertainer Haifa Wehbe, Egyptian singer Sherihan, and Maria, an Armenian Lebanese pop star. “They expressed their sexual side, which, while growing up, was so new. As queer people, we saw them claiming their sexuality and their bodies, and their lyrics and their voice,” says Lawrence. Many of the pieces in Trashy Clothing’s latest collection are inspired by these music videos, including a sleeveless tank and red pants culled from Wehbe’s “Ebn El Halal.” Sherihan’s face is also printed on a T-shirt and leggings, while Maria’s face appears on a skirt.
Danish designer Cecilie Bahnsen had her Paris Fashion Week catwalk debut yesterday, after being invited to join the schedule during the pandemic. The show opened with a reading of Tove Ditlevsens ‘Night Wandering’, which was translated for the first time into English by Michael Favala Goldman. Cecilie first began to read Tove Ditlevsen’s poetry as a teenager, the brand explained. Later, in her 20s, she identified with Tove’s search to find her voice. Tove was a prolific chronicler of girls and women, writing fearlessly about their complexity and waywardness and struggle for a place in the world. Nanushka chose to celebrate the creative study of functional and intuitive design for AW22. Entitled ‘Industrial Craft’, the message behind the collection was that if a garment is designed to function well, it will, by definition, be beautiful.
In a typical season, our most-viewed shows list is fairly steady, but fall 2022 was no typical season. Early on in Milan, almost two years to the day after Covid broke out in Italy, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted any sense of post-pandemic return to normalcy the industry was hoping for. The rest of the season was an open question, whether or not designers chose to confront it: What is fashion’s place in a moment of incipient war? After a very strange few years, a relatively normal schedule of fashion shows wrapped in March. For autumn/winter 2022, plenty of designers were back on the physical schedule after taking a few seasons off due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while more international editors and influencers also flew around the globe to sit front row at the major shows as restrictions eased.
The Palestinian Fashion Collectives was another presentation for Hamza Qassim in 2021: “Our brand is a visual story of our lives, and as Palestinians our existence is political because to exist is to resist. With every piece, we cover an aspect of our story,” says Lawrence. “We try to use all aspects of a collection—such as tailoring, prints, campaigns, and casting—to convey each message.” The designers painstakingly embed physical symbols of Palestinian symbols into their creations. For instance, their spring 2021 collection nods to the tough inspection checkpoints through which people must travel when entering or exiting Palestine through double-layered pants and tops, tailored to mirror the constant surveillance upon Palestinians. The idea was previously explored in tRASHY’s spring 2018 pieces, too: three years ago, their runway show had a built-in border allowing only one side of the audience to view the collection. The production was in line with their ethos: very tongue-in-cheek while striking a nerve.