Vogue France, the French version of the style journal, has landed itself in an argument after it praised actress Julia Fox for donning a headband (Picture: Instagram)
In keeping with netizens, praising a white girl for donning a headband deemed ‘hypocritical’ whereas Muslim girls within the nation had been oppressed from doing so
Vogue France, the French version of the style journal, has landed itself in an argument after it praised actress Julia Fox for donning a headband. Fox lately was seen on the Paris Males’s Style Week in a leather-based Balenciaga trench coat, a pair of sun shades and a headband to prime all of it. Sharing an image of Fox on this apparel on their social media deal with, Vogue France at first captioned it, “Yes to the headscarf! Swipe left for your recap of Julia Fox and Kanye West style journey at the haute couture shows in Paris this week. “The caption was later edited to remove any reference to the headscarf but the damage had already been done.
Vogue’s thumbs up to the headscarf irked a lot of netizens as they felt it was insensitive to the plight of Muslim women in a country that is accused of perpetuating a culture of Islamophobia. According to netizens, praising a white woman for donning a headscarf deemed ‘hypocritical’ while Muslim women in the country were oppressed from doing so.
Since 1989, when three students in Creil were suspended from school for refusing to remove their headscarves, Muslim women’s freedom to wear the hijab has been a source of conflict in France, according to a report in The Independent. At least 100 girls have been penalized or expelled from school since then because they wore a headscarf in class. The exclusions were overturned by the French courts in roughly half of these cases. In 2011, the country made facial coverings such as the niqab and the burqa illegal. According to the Independent, the French Senate decided earlier this month to prohibit the wearing of “religious insignia" in sporting tournaments, which included the hijab.
Irked netizens on social media lashed out at Vogue France in the comments section. One user asked the magazine to stand up against the government banning hijab instead of featuring a white woman wearing a headscarf. Another user simply called out the magazine for its ‘double standards’ and asked what it was doing to promote the rights of Muslim women.
“How can you post about the headscarf on a white woman, but have it banned in your country for Muslim women?” one other remark learn. One other identified that its objectionable when Muslim girls put on it however change into ‘fashionable’ when fashions and celebrities put on it.
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