Vela Scarves is an online store run by Marwa Atik. She designs lovely hijab styles, and sews them herself! And she's only 20! The designs are fresh and appealing to young Muslim women in the US.
About Marwa Atik, the hijab fashion designer:
Atik, whose parents are from Syria, began wearing the head scarf in eighth grade. She was the editor of her high school yearbook but found herself spending more time browsing fashion websites than looking at photos of student clubs and activities. After school she would spend hours at Wal-Mart reading fashion magazines. In the summer of 2009 when she and Diab decided to design hijabs, she took sewing classes, the youngest among a group of elderly women making patterned quilts.
Atik has taken the Muslim head scarf, often known as hijab, and turned it into a canvas for her fashion sensibilities, with ideas inspired by designs from Forever 21 and H&M as well as haute couture runways and the pages of Vogue and Elle. Showing her latest design at a mosque was her way of gauging sentiment on scarves that go beyond the limited fashion realm they have thus far inhabited, such as floral and geometric prints or lace and beaded embellishments.
Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-hijab-20101007,0,2550245,full.story
Check out her bridal designs below.
Vela Scarves Bridal Hijab
Off white satin wrap with cream chiffon pleats.
Silver metallic lined under with silver sequenced broach.
Vela Scarves Bridal Hijab
Detailed shot of diamond shaped sequence
and pleated off white chiffon
Vela Scarves Bridal Hijab
Detail work: satin and lace ruffles
and off white lace floral print also sewn at top rim of scarf
Actual Bride Wearing a Vela Scarves Bridal Hijab
100% silk white wrap with two simple layers of leopard print
with hand sewn white crystal edges.
You can place orders at: http://velascarves.com
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