The exhibition — at the De Young museum through Jan. 6 — looks at modern takes on traditional Muslim women's garb from swimwear and streetwear to luxury, multi-day wedding ensembles by ...

Public schools in France have been turning away students for breaking a new national ban on the abaya, a long, robe-like garment often worn by Muslim women, as a rights group filed an appeal ...

Women in Saudi Arabia have launched a protest against the abaya, a full-length robe worn by some women in parts of the Muslim world, by wearing the garment inside out. A traditional abaya is black ...

France's Education Minister Gabriel Attal in Paris on August 24, 2023. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP French authorities are to ban the wearing in school premises of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim ...

It's an increasingly smart business move, as Muslim customers spent $230 billion globally on clothing in 2014, and it's predicted that figure will rise to $327 billion in 2020, according to a ...

A senior member of the top Muslim clerical body in Saudi Arabia has said women need not wear the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of the Muslim faith known as the abaya. During his radio ...

Why is France so worried about Muslim dress in its schools? Devised by Gabriel Attal, France’s education minister, the new rule was made official on August 31st, four days before term began.

FEW sartorial choices are scrutinised as closely as those of Muslim women. Their clothing is regulated both in countries where Islam is a minority religion, and in those where it is professed by ...