Mahla Zamani
{{Short description|Iranian fashion designer}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2019}}
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|name = Mahla Zamani
|birth_name = مهلا زمانی
| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1950|12|11}}
| death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|2023|07|17|1950|12|11}}
|education = Pitman Institute, UK
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|spouse = Mohammad Hossein Rastgou
| children = 2, including Labkhand and Delband
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| occupation = {{hlist|Businessman|fashion designer}}
| known_for = Lotus fashion house
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Mahla Zamani (11 December 1950 - 17 July 2023 ){{cite web |title=مهلا زمانی استاد و پیشکسوت حوزه مد و لباس درگذشت |url=https://fashiontv.ir/%D9%85%D9%87%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%88-%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA-%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%AF-%D9%88-%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7/ |website=FashionTV.ir |accessdate=17 March 2023|language=fa}} was an Iranian fashion designer, journalist and expert on Iranian traditional clothing.
Life
She established the first fashion exhibition after the Iranian revolution (1979) and put significant effort in popularizing Iranian stylish clothing. In her view, Iranians need to revive their past and dress in elegant colorful and traditional styles (instead of black and Arabian dresses). Her efforts in advertising Persian, Qashqai, Kurdish, Turkmen and Baloch dress styles attracted international attention.
She has been attacked by fundamentalist circles and newspapers repeatedly.{{cite web |title=Chador colorati per le donne iraniane |url=http://www.televideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/articolo.jsp?id=11039 |website=Televideo Rai |accessdate=11 March 2019 |language=it}}
In 2001 Zamani received permission to launch Lotus: A Persian Quarterly, Iran's first fashion magazine{{cite book |last1=Hoppenstand |first1=Gary |title=The Greenwood encyclopedia of world popular culture, Volume 4 |date=2007 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0313332746 |page=81}} and the first Iranian magazine to show the faces of women since the establishment of the Islamic Republic.{{cite book |last1=Bucar |first1=Elizabeth |title=Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress |date=September 4, 2017 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0674976160 |page=65}}
Zamani was asked to design a dress for Queen Saleha of Brunei as a gift from Iran.{{cite web |title=Iranian Baluch Woman Designs Dress for Queen of Brunei |url=https://ifpnews.com/exclusive/iranian-baluch-woman-designs-dress-for-queen-of-brunei/ |website=IFP News |accessdate=11 March 2019 |language=en |date=27 February 2019}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0413/p12s02-wome.html Covered head to toe in silk and color]
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Category:Iranian fashion designers
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Category:Iranian women journalists
Category:Iranian women fashion designers
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