In an apartment in Gaza, a model with a septum piercing wears Meera Adnan’s ’80s-style looks: an oversized jacket with puffy sleeves and extreme high-waist trousers with shell buttons. The Gaza-based designer typically favors easy suiting pieces that come in voluminous silhouettes with a playful retro vibe, usually mixing in modern styling effects, such as a Fendi bag and a Prada bucket hat.
Adnan’s collection is deeply personal. The clothes skew oversized, a feature that stemmed from Adnan’s smaller frame. “I was always underweight as a kid, and even as an adult, I used to get a lot of comments about the fact that most women in my society are curvy,” she says. “According to the standards of society, my body looked like a child’s body. I felt like I didn’t look like a woman.
Adnan grew up in Saudi Arabia and then moved back to Gaza when she was 12. In Gaza, Adnan, who is considered a refugee under United Nations law, met people also from displaced backgrounds with their own diverse histories. Like her, they weren’t originally from Gaza but had come from various parts of Palestine after they had been displaced. “There are small differences you can find between different people in Gaza coming from different backgrounds,” she says.
While her background in fashion and supplies are international, Adnan designs all of her pieces in Gaza. “I wanted my brand to have a very strong identity of where I come from,” she says. Here, there is a deeper layer, and Adnan hopes to shed light on a different perspective from where she is from. “I feel like coming from a place like Gaza, people cannot see you as more than a victim or sometimes maybe just a human shield for some political party, in a way.
At the moment, Adnan gets all of her fabrics and materials abroad. It is currently almost impossible to receive and send out items in Gaza due to border closures. “Simple postal packages are very hard to get into Gaza,” she later writes. In order to deal with this, she has to physically bring fabric samples back home. “I wanted to show that we have a rich history, and we have creativity,” she says.
'Adnan is considered a refugee under United Nations law' is false. She's a 3rd generation descendant of a displaced person who is NOT defined as a refugee by UNHCR nor by the 1951 Refugee Convention. CAMERAorg HonestReporting
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