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news we find out what it means to be a muslim woman who wants to dress modestly but fashionably, in trump's america, in new yorkjobbies. this is our journey this is ourjourney into modest fashion and the post—trump united states. but in 2017, especially in america, the issues surrounding muslim identity have come sharply into focus. this is our journey into modest fashion in the post—trump united states. wait! we are vetting very, very strongly. to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the united states of america. you have some bad people out there. we don't want them here. prior to coming to the states, we had to get official i visas to work on the documentary, all in the midst of president trump's proposed muslim bans. this doesn't really affect me personally, but indirectly, it does impact nabiila and other muslims travelling to the us. how funny that we actually had more issues on the british side than what we did in america. it was so weird, because i thought it would be the other way around. me too.

i thought we would get through england, it would be fine, and then come to america and there's going to be so much issues. but i actually got stopped and searched in england, and then came to america and it was fine, they just let me through. ifelt so bad, because it is that situation where everyone starts looking — "oh, why has she been pulled to the side?" — when you have done nothing wrong, but then all of a sudden, because the authorities are questioning you and you're just stood there by yourself. i was like, "this is awful." i just want to get a feel for what the people on the ground are really feeling, because in england, we are bombarded with the news and then we see people protesting... yeah, and whether it is really affecting everyday people. because it is all about politicians, but are people actually getting affected? mm. back in february, muslim designer anniesa hasibuan showcased her fall/winter 2017 collection at new york fashion week. all the models were wearing hijab. they were also immigrants to the us. what was the reaction to the show and what effect has the statement she has made had on the modest fashion industry? we got exclusive backstage access to the show and spoke to anniesa. music: 99 problems by jay z i was completely blown away by it.

i was completely blown away by it. she has an ability to grab these very intricate details and translate them into very wearable clothes, and i thought this one was dramatic, but yet you can adapt it to an everyday wardrobe. new york fashion week has been very political. a lot of designers have been making statements that have been very pointed but very classy and subtle at the same time. i think it's a beautiful statement in general, especially at the moment with all the things happening, and i think it's beautiful also, and it's important also, in the fashion industry to use that platform to make a statement, to bring awareness and consciousness to beauty stereotypes also, to change that up a little bit.

even if it's more modest or whatever, you still can dress beautiful and you can make a statement. but it's also more about just being open. i think anniesa is making a statement that is very simple, and it's that there are muslim women all over the world, and they like to dress fashionably and they like to dress to their own taste and still maintain the tradition of a hijab. they still maintain their modesty. and i think she does it in a way that is very adaptable, not only to somebody who is muslim, but also to somebody who just really likes chic clothing. i have never worn a hijab on the runway, but i think it's a great idea to not draw the attention away from the garment, and to rather have every model, a very clean look. i think it'sjust putting more emphasis on the clothing. having shows like this is something

that gets conversations going. i think a designer like anniesa makes a statement and then it is up to the audience to take that statement and accept it or reject it. at least it's a conversation starter, and we could all use a little bit more conversation. with modest fashion growing as an industry, others here in america are seeking to push it forward. one of those is nailah lymus, who runs underwra ps, the first—ever muslim and modest female modelling agency in the us. i did a lot of research before i launched the agency in the secular world, because that's where i really wanted to push the models,

into the mainstream industry and not just to be with muslim designers or anything like that. it was just to show how beautiful modest fashion can be, and when i speak to what i'm doing, i speak to the reasons why i'm doing what i'm doing with the agency. so i'm not trying to conform. turn very slowly to, kind of, look out the window. and... yeah, let me see how that looks. i would say it's been an overall positive reaction. there are some people that don't get it and don't agree, because that's just life. i mean, that's a level of reality with everything you do, you just can't satisfy everyone, but i'm just content with my mission, my plan. not to say that there's anything wrong with showing skin or the "sex sells" idea — you want to wear bikinis, that's totally fine. this isjust creating another avenue, and the beauty of the fashion industry and the fashion world is there's room for so many avenues. this is the great business to do that. that'll be the last shot, the dabbing. ..

one of these situations? and it would be after you drink the water. and what kind of support do you feel from publications and designers? i feel a lot of support. i think right now, it is picking up a lot of momentum, because it's trending a lot more. modest fashion is kind of in all the stores now, it's becoming more noticeable and more tangible, because modest fashion has always been here, but it's usually been more... you got the valentino, it's usually more high—end designers and it's not really tangible to the average. just because of price points. but because it's trending now, you have it in h&m, you have it in uniqlo, it's like, target, you can find some long, flowy dress. it's a lot more accessible now, and therefore you see that a lot of women see the beauty in it. as far as being muslim women, we want people to see

the beauty and modesty. so if you see it and you like it and you want to copy it, i'm all for it. one of the underwraps messages of yours is "infusion of inclusion". mm—hm. do you feel like america is following that ethos right now? um, i think it's gradually getting there. because i remember when modest fashion wasn't the term, it wasn't associated with just muslims, and now it's becoming this kind of new muslim thing going on, when it'sjust modest fashion. it's not muslim fashion, it's not islamic fashion, it'sjust modest. anniesa's 2017 collection made a clear statement about modest fashion and being a muslim and immigrant in america right now. we met with elle journalist kristina rodulfo to get her views on what's happening in fashion at the moment and its importance when set against the backdrop of current us politics. how far do you think the modest fashion industry has come over the last three years?

the mainstream fashion industry has definitely embraced modest fashion, it has established itself as one to watch, for sure, but we are still at a point when it's news — you know, it's not the norm, and so it's definitely a sign that we need to keep on continuing this conversation until the point that it's no longer something that's outstanding, it's something that's normal and making fashionable more representative of all women. is it the designers making a statement against... using their creativity and their shows and platform to make a statement against the political climate? it may seem that modest fashion is coming to the forefront right now, especially as trump is in power, and it might seem like it's an act of defiance, which, in a way, it is. i can't say for sure if the designers are definitely trying to say something to the president, but i know for a fact that it's definitely a group of women that should not be ignored. muslim people, by 2030,

will make 29% of our population, so that's 29% of the population that you should be catering to. fashion is for everyone. so it should be for those people as well. halima aden. cheering. seeing halima aden walking the runway and getting the career start that she has is definitely encouraging to young muslim women who may want to work in fashion, because it tells them the message that "you belong. " so seeing more diversity and seeing fashion represent our country the way that it actually is is very encouraging. all people want to see is themselves, and representation for all... people say that diversity talk happens so much — because we need it! we need that, until it doesn't have to be discussed any more. who, for you, are the important voices around modest fashion? a lot of credit has to be given to fashion bloggers, because they are creating attention and creating a space

for hijabi bloggers, hijabi fashion, hijabi beauty, way before mainstream publications were paying attention. one person i follow is melanie elturk of haute hijab. i love her, she's so great. amani from muslim girl is someone we definitely pay attention to and we feature her on elle.com and have a relationship with her. she is the coolest. she has a really fun blog that kind of brings a space that wasn't there before for muslim women. amani has grown her site since starting it at 17 years old, and it now receives over 100 million hits a year. campaigner, tech entrepreneur, author — this young woman is vocal about all the issues that concern young muslim women, and we're about to meet her. hi, nicola. you were at anniesa's new york fashion week show in february, and all of the models were in hijab and they were all immigrants. so how significant was that to you? i thought it was really cool to see

that, because it's not an image you typically see. i instantlyjust flashed back to my first new york fashion week. it was when i was in college, maybe three years ago, and when i was there, i remember meeting someone from wilhelmina models. i thought it was so cool, i'm getting an insider's view on the industry, and i asked him, "do you think that there is hope that, one day, "we are going to see modest fashion represented on these runways?" and he immediately said, "absolutely not. " modest fashion is really about equipping women with a choice to reveal as little or as much as they want with their clothing, just to have that autonomy about how they choose to express their bodies. in the past, a lot of women have been really limited in the way they choose to dress. with fashion especially, i can tell you how much difficulty i experienced when i first started wearing a headscarf, when i made the commitment to start dressing in hijab.

and i could rarely find clothes that covered my body, and especially for a teenage girl, when i started wearing it, you're already dealing with so many body issues and, like, fashion, style, you're really trying to navigate your identity. you want options for how to express yourself, and i remember always feeling so awkward trying to make things fit with the headscarf, and now i think it's beautiful that there are a lot more options out there. so muslim girl has become hugely successful. what inspired you to start? it was less about being inspired to start and more being pissed off enough to start. i think that, for me, i was 17 years old, i was really frustrated by this misrepresentation of muslim women i had been experiencing my entire life. 9/11 happened when i was nine years old, so i grew up through a lot of this islamophobic misrepresentation of muslims, and just seeing people talk about muslim women and what we believe in, what we stand for, but it was never muslim women doing the talking. and so, yeah, we did what any typical millennial women would do — we went online and we created

our own space. can fashion and voices like yours help change attitudes? i really do credit social media platforms like instagram for the rise of modest fashion trends. you scroll through it and you see veiled muslim girls putting on make—up right alongside non—muslim women and it's normal. it's normal in a platform like that, and i think that's the reason why a lot of these brands are starting to wake up and realise there's a demand to cater to this market. what you think the future holds for modest fashion in the united states? i can tell you what i hope the future of modest fashion will be, and that is that it's going to be normal. it'sjust going to be an option readily available to anyone and people are going to understand that some women choose to dress and cover themselves, while others don't, and there's nothing wrong with that. as a blogger and youtuber myself, i want to find out what all these

changes mean for my us peers here in new york. have recent events spurred them on to be more outspoken about modest fashion? or are people now scared to voice their opinions and assert their muslim identity in a divided america? mariana, what for you has been the effect of donald trump? we have a leader in our country that is not very aware of our country's history, first of all, and also the laws of our country, so it is creating turbulence between its citizens and him. when he was saying such horrible things, notjust about muslims, but about people in general, and... he won, it showed that half the country, even more than half the country, was ok with this, and they also believed it.

so for me, it was just a big wake—up call, it was like, "wow, this actually... "islamophobia is something that exists." and it made me just more, not only aware of it, but more conscious that i need to do certain things to try and change it or combat it, where before, i didn't see it so much of an issue. i feel like it's made hate much more tolerable now in our society. for example, my aunt one day was driving and she parked her car, and somebody threw trash at her in her car, and they said, "go back to your country." and she was like, "i was born..." my aunt was born here as well, so it'sjust a lot of ignorance, i feel, and people are taking more pride in it, they feel like it's something they can do and they're not going to get in trouble for. not to be completely negative, i feel like there has been a lot of positivity. at least for me, i have experienced it walking in the street, someone sees me in my hijab, a lot of non—muslims have been like, "wow, you're so brave." there's both sides to it. a lot of love has come out of it, but there's also definitely been a lot of hate, so... how has this affected modest fashion?

i personally know people who've taken off their scarves because they have said they don't feel comfortable or safe, or they just can't take the stares any more, or the comments, and i can totally understand that pressure, i feel like that's personally why i do it, and i'm sure most of us here, that's what we encourage other women to do, that's the end goal, to let them feel comfortable. there's definitely a lack of tolerance for who we are and the way we dress. my grandmother has always been incredibly encouraging of myjourney and she asked me, "do you think you could still be muslim and not wear the hijab?" and i said, "well, yes..." she just wants you to be safe? yeah. i said, "yes, i can, but i don't necessarily want to be." and she was like, "i just don't want anything to happen to you." and for me, that wasjust like... it's heartbreaking. heartbreaking. kendyl, you're a revert to islam. can you just explain what that is to maybe people who don't know?

i was raised roman catholic and then, at about 18 years old, i chose to revert to islam, and instead of saying "convert", like many christian orjewish faiths would say, we say "revert" because we believe that our souls are created by allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and so we are created in a state of being muslim because that is what we believe is true, so your soul is, in a way, reverting back to where it began and what it started as. so how does your love of tattoos work with your faith? i get a lot of reactions, that's for sure. are tattoos allowed? seen as allowed? no. no? well, by the majority, no. the majority of muslims, tattoos are seen to be impermissible and not allowed. so by entering the community as a fairly heavily tattooed person, there were definitely reactions, there were a lot of people that felt like i should remove my tattoos or cover them, which would mean wearing gloves constantly. or something! for me, it was never an issue. my body and the way that i looked and my faith never collided

until people made them collide. can an industry like modest fashion help change viewpoints and opinions? i think definitely, because i think it shows we're really not oppressed, we are very self—empowered and confident in who we are, and there are ways to make it beautiful and trendy, so to speak. even anniesa's show, everything was very bedazzled and it was glitter everywhere and it was very beautiful, very sunny, very eye—catching. i think it kind of builds more sense of acceptance, and not only acceptance, but fascination with it. i feel like it's something that is growing notjust in the muslim community, but in the fashion world all over. modest fashion is kind of still in its infancy in terms of the mainstream. where do you see it going in two, three or four years‘ time? we have seen in history that subcultures have become mainstream. currently, hip—hop, right? streetwear is everywhere, and we're going to see

what the result is once we see where fashion and the trend is moving and see how much it has impacted. music: blinded by your grace by stormzy feat mnek. this is it, we're at the end of our trip. i think, in today's society, we all feel, especially with social media, we all have a voice and we all feel entitled to give our opinion, but a lot of the time, that opinion is uneducated. i think with the whole thing that's happening with trump, with modest fashion, it has actually moved it forward. like kanye used the first hijabi model. the designers are trying to make a statement and it's actually having a really positive effect. women of all faiths or no faiths are realising that they have another option out there, and i think that that is going to expand the industry for all of us.

i really hope, for muslim women, that it's going to reach a level where they can walk out of their homes choosing to dress however they want without fearing being attacked for that. and i think that hopefully, i'm hoping, we're working towards that direction. # i'm only human after all # # i'm only human after all, don't put the blame on me # # don't put the blame on me #. we may be right in the middle of

summer i'iow, we may be right in the middle of summer now, but the weather actually has been feeling a bit autumnal across parts of the country over the past few days. we have had some heavy rain and strong winds. here is the scene in devon, taken by one of our weather watchers during the course of friday afternoon. choppy waves and cloud bringing outbreaks of rain. it was not like that across the country, a different scene in the country, a different scene in the book. blue skies and sunshine, some communis clouds around. we will keep some sunny skies to the weekend but those clouds likely to bring some showers. a bit of a mixed picture as we head through the weekend. low pressure is the driving force. it is drifting northwards and eastwards a cross force. it is drifting northwards and eastwards across the country. the heavy rain we saw on friday will be shifting its way northwards and eastwards on saturday, tending to beat out across parts of northern england and southern scotland. further south, the breeze rotating around that low pressure will bring in further heavy showers across the south west, south wales, those showers drifting northwards across the country. scotland and northern

ireland having the best of the dry and bright weather. juric is up to around 21 degrees or so, fairly fresh for this time of year. into sunday, the early hours, we have some showers around the tending to drift away off to the east. an improved picture by the time we get to the early hours of sunday, across parts of south wales and the south—west of england after a few days of heavy rain, sunday should bring some dry and sunny weather. still a chance of scattered downpours and wales in central england, perhaps a few across eastern scotland. northern scotland and northern ireland staying mostly dry and bright. shower was fairly few and far between elsewhere. temperatures around 19 to 22 degrees for most of us. the sunday, that low pressure starts to drift away towards the near continent, heading off to the east. the isobars coming from the north, winds coming in the east coast, quite cool in the likes of aberdeen and newcastle. a bit of rain across the south—east, should clear away and then a much brighter and dry picture as we had through

the day. a small ridge of high pressure trying to creep in from the south—west, that keeps things fairly quiet into tuesday. tuesday one of the best days of the week probably, in terms of dry and bright weather, most in terms of dry and bright weather, m ost pla ces in terms of dry and bright weather, most places seeing some sunshine. it will feel reasonably warm with this damages up to around 25 degrees in the south—east. pressure north west. high pressure does not stay long, we will see that squeezed away to the south, that opens the door to low pressure. for wednesday, we will see the cloud increasing from the west are famously dry start, remaining dry in the east. that band of rain working from west east gradually across the country. from mid week onwards, things turning unsettled once again. low pressure at the north—west of the uk, still high pressure trying to move in from the south—west. that is the high you can see their towards the south—west, never really establishes itself next week, low pressure moving in from the north—west. some wet and windy

weather, particularly across northern and western parts of the country. you are more likely to stay dry, less windy with a bit more sunshine the further south and east you are. a bit of a mixed picture, some changing fortunes in terms of the weather later next week. generally an unsettled, changeable outlook with bands of rain, interspersed with showers, often quite windy and things will be staying at a rather cool temperature at this time of year. we will update you again tomorrow. goodbye. the tragedy of yemen — ravaged by war and now the largest ever recorded epidemic of cholera ina year. the face of starvation — as hundreds of thousands contract the deadly and relentless disease. they know the water is poison — but it's all they have to drink. pockets of famine are growing. cholera is spreading. and civil serva nts cholera is spreading. and civil servants like the doctors and nurses here haven't received a salary in

over ten months. there's one thing people here keep telling me and it's that they feel completely forgotten. how has the crisis in yemen been allowed to reach this point? and what is the international community doing about it? also tonight. to see stories come out that are patently false, narrative that are wrong, to see fake news. donald trump's press secretary, controversial and much