Zan-e Ruz ( زن روز ),

  • Mahsa Bayat

This project mainly reflects Iranian women, their struggles, and their limitations. The title Zan-e Ruz ( زن روز ), which means woman of today in Persian, is the name of one of the most popular weekly fashion and lifestyle magazines in Iran before the Islamic revolution. Until the revolution, it seemed it was just a matter of time before women achieved equality with men worldwide. However, the Islamic resurgence of the 1970s in Iran has threatened women’s gains. Since then, women and girls have continued to be treated as second-class citizens and didn’t have some basic social rights, but since Islamic laws for women here do not reflect the cultural norms, values, and beliefs of the majority, Iranian women always found new ways to learn how to cope with the pain, stand out for their rights and flourish through hardships after all these years of social pressure and suffering. As general representatives of power and pain, red and black are the key futures of styling for these photoshoots. Additionally, In fashion, red is sometimes viewed as a nod to a woman’s sexual power or a kind of personal brazenness to catch the viewer’s attention. Using items like a red veil to cover the face or black gloves, I tried to show feminine power beyond all sexualized Customary laws.