Friday, July 4, 2008 
No disrespect to all the hustlers, but every kid with a computer is starting his own T-shirt line these days, throwing some “ancient Persian” motifs or Persian words on those horrible American Apparel shirts that run really small in the first place and then have the audacity shrink to nothing the first time you wash […]
Nima Taherzadeh may be the only Iranian man in the world who can pull off a ponytail. You can’t see it in the photo above, but he’s got one and he wears it well. When I met with him in Chelsea on a lazy Sunday afternoon a few months ago, he was wearing a black […]
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(photo: Takin Aghdashloo)
The message is simple and clear, and graphic designer Takin Aghdashloo’s I Love Tehran shirt embodies the kind of effusive Iran-fondness we like to get behind. If it looks familiar, that’s probably because blogger Hossein Derakhshan has worn it a bunch, once on Canadian TV (case in point: see the photo in this […]
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Pars Arts is happy to bring you something a little different today. Sepideh Saremi and Asad Baheri, fashion neophytes, recently found themselves both intrigued and perplexed by NIMANY, the work of designer Nima Behnoud. Here’s their instant messenger conversation about NIMANY, fashion, and the ethics of cashing in on culture.
Sepideh: ok so we’ve chatted back […]
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By now everyone knows that Iranian designer Behnaz Sarafpour is currently featured in Target’s GO International series, in which high-fashion designers go low-brow for the benefit of those of us who can’t spend $600 on a single pair of pants (and if we could, would we?). I’ve been drooling over her clothes since her first […]
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There’s a holiday sale going on at the Legofish Store, which is run by the Persian blogger and super-talented graphic designer Legofish, aka Pendar Yousefi. The “Simorgh” Yoga Top pictured above is based on a Persian fairytale; the simorgh is a beautiful, mythical bird. I really like the placement of the graphic on this shirt […]