Kaustav Dey: How fashion helps us express who we are -- and what we stand for
كاوستاف داي: كيف تعبّر الموضة عنا وعن ما ندافع عنه
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,
I would be invisible,
يجب أن أكون خفيًا،
just like everybody else."
to God's voicemail, though.
the son that my father always wanted.
الولد الذي رغبه والدي.
that I actually wanted to.
من أنني أرغب في التغير.
bell-bottom pants came into my life,
السراويل السوداء حياتي،
I had to wear them to school,
وذهبت به إلى المدرسة،
and belted them tight,
what can only be called a swagger.
because I was sent home at once --
لأني أُرسلت إلى المنزل على الفور
a little brown rock star.
that I could not conform.
the power of what we wear.
the power of fashion,
to the world for us.
إلى العالم بالنيابة عنا.
for being so last season?
لأنكم ترتدون صرعة قديمة؟
meant something entirely different.
شيئًا مختلفًا تمامًا.
survived Taliban extremists
من هجوم لطالبان
she faced a different enemy,
واجهت عدوًا مختلفًا،
attacked the photograph
wearing jeans that day.
وعمرها 20 عامًا آنذاك.
before the scarf comes off?"
directly targeted her head
to wear a pair of jeans
London, Milan, Paris,
أو لندن، أو ميلان، أو باريس
to think that it's a privilege;
can have consequences,
be taken away from us.
who took extraordinary pleasure
was possibly the only thing
of her generation in India,
by custom and tradition.
when my grandfather died suddenly one day,
عندما مات جدي بشكل مفاجئ،
something else as well,
كانت ستفقد شيئًا آخر أيضًا،
who had outlived her husband,
from earlier, happier times.
what she's wearing --
how we want to look,
comes in many forms.
thousands of them,
of white for centuries.
have started to celebrate Holi,
الاحتفال بمهرجان (هولي)،
from participating in.
colored powder of the festival
مسحوق الألوان الخاص بالاحتفال
they throw into the air,
to suffuse with color.
they're completely covered
that's forbidden to them.
in a battle against oppression.
في المعركة ضد الاضطهاد.
have always been taught
that women can be kings.
أنه يمكن للنساء أن يصرن ملوكًا.
ارتداء أحذية بكعب عال.
in his spring 1999 show,
in the middle of his runway.
في منتصف منصة العرض.
began to spin in between them,
(شالوم هارلو) تدور بينهم،
of ours is a canvas,
death threats for how he looked.
on a busy street in Baghdad.
showed multiple wounds.
was shot multiple times in May 2016.
المتحولة جنسيًا (أليشا) في مايو 2016.
in women's clothing,
to either the men's or the women's wards.
be literally life and death.
we sometimes don't get to choose.
it's natural to be afraid,
and what we wear on them.
is that once we surrender,
one after the other,
conformity will look,
this oppression will feel.
the ordinary of tomorrow.
anything different as dirty,
في الاختلاف شيئًا خاطئًا،
to look like ourselves,
violently whitewashed,
of color pushing through,
in this world, and there always will be.
وسيكون هناك اختلاف دائمًا.
a language for dissent.
our courage on our sleeves.
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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