Kaustav Dey: How fashion helps us express who we are -- and what we stand for
קאוסטאב דיי: איך אופנה עוזרת לנו לבטא את עצמנו -- ואת מה שאנחנו מאמינים בו
Kaustav Dey leads marketing for Tommy Hilfiger in India. Full bio
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of my father's old things.
of his college textbooks,
bell-bottom pants.
was my school uniform,
היתה התלבושת הבית ספרית שלי.
I would be invisible,
אני צריך להפוך לבלתי נראה.
just like everybody else."
to God's voicemail, though.
the son that my father always wanted.
that I actually wanted to.
פחות ופחות בטוח שרציתי.
bell-bottom pants came into my life,
נכנסו לחיי,
I had to wear them to school,
and belted them tight,
הנוראיים האלו וחגרתי אותם חזק,
what can only be called a swagger.
because I was sent home at once --
a little brown rock star.
that I could not conform.
the power of what we wear.
את הכוח של מה שאנחנו לובשים.
the power of fashion,
to the world for us.
את השוני שלנו לעולם בשבילנו.
for being so last season?
כי אתם לובשים את העונה הקודמת?
meant something entirely different.
התכוונה למשהו לגמרי שונה.
survived Taliban extremists
שרדה את קיצוני הטאליבן
she faced a different enemy,
היא נלחמה מול אויב אחר,
attacked the photograph
wearing jeans that day.
before the scarf comes off?"
directly targeted her head
to wear a pair of jeans
ללבוש זוג מכנסי ג'ינס
London, Milan, Paris,
to think that it's a privilege;
can have consequences,
be taken away from us.
who took extraordinary pleasure
was possibly the only thing
היה כנראה הדבר היחיד
of her generation in India,
by custom and tradition.
when my grandfather died suddenly one day,
something else as well,
who had outlived her husband,
שחיה יותר מבעלה,
from earlier, happier times.
מזמנים שמחים יותר.
what she's wearing --
how we want to look,
איך שאנחנו רוצים להראות,
comes in many forms.
thousands of them,
of white for centuries.
have started to celebrate Holi,
התחילו לחגוג את ה"הולי",
from participating in.
colored powder of the festival
את אבקת הצבע המסורתית של הפסטיבל
they throw into the air,
to suffuse with color.
they're completely covered
that's forbidden to them.
in a battle against oppression.
שאנחנו נזרוק בקרב נגד הדיכוי.
have always been taught
that women can be kings.
שנשים יכולות להיות מלכים.
in his spring 1999 show,
in the middle of his runway.
באמצע המסלול.
began to spin in between them,
of ours is a canvas,
death threats for how he looked.
איומים בגלל המראה שלו.
on a busy street in Baghdad.
showed multiple wounds.
was shot multiple times in May 2016.
נורתה מספר פעמים במאי 2016.
in women's clothing,
to either the men's or the women's wards.
של הנשים והגברים.
be literally life and death.
יכול לקבוע את החיים והמוות בשבילנו.
we sometimes don't get to choose.
it's natural to be afraid,
and what we wear on them.
ומה שאנחנו לובשים עליו.
is that once we surrender,
one after the other,
conformity will look,
תראה יותר טבעית,
this oppression will feel.
the ordinary of tomorrow.
anything different as dirty,
את מה ששונה בצורה מגעילה.
to look like ourselves,
violently whitewashed,
of color pushing through,
in this world, and there always will be.
a language for dissent.
our courage on our sleeves.
על השרוול תרתי משמע.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kaustav Dey - Fashion revolutionaryKaustav Dey leads marketing for Tommy Hilfiger in India.
Why you should listen
Kaustav Dey has always been fascinated by the role of fashion as a vehicle for protest, both in his own life and in the fashion industry. He believes that fashion has played a key role in counterculture history -- and that now more than ever, we need to fight censorship and repression with fashion.
Dey earned a bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Madras University in Chennai, and he holds an MBA in marketing and communications from MICA in Ahmedabad, India. He loves fashion, food and his six dogs.
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