dinsdag, mei 03, 2005
Newsha Tavakolian op CBS News
Iran's strict Islamic dress code has backfired in at least one big way. Some young Iranian women are more obsessed with their appearance than their counterparts in the West. And they're lining up in record number to improve on the look nature gave them with cosmetic surgery.
The most popular form of plastic surgery in America is liposuction, but in Iran, where the female form is kept largely under wraps, women prefer to spend their money where they can show it off. So Iran, where the morality police used to confiscate eyeliner and lip gloss, is now the nose job capital of the world.
Photographer Newsha Tavakolian is planning a book on Iranian women. The nose craze, she says, started with satellite TV from the West.
"Everyone saw how the Western women, they have very small nose and look almost like Barbie, and the Iranian women, they see them and they say, 'Oh, I want to look like them,'" says Tavakolian. "They want to make their nose small."
CBS News maakte hierover een reportage, waarin ook Newsha Tavakolian aan het woord komt.
The most popular form of plastic surgery in America is liposuction, but in Iran, where the female form is kept largely under wraps, women prefer to spend their money where they can show it off. So Iran, where the morality police used to confiscate eyeliner and lip gloss, is now the nose job capital of the world.
Photographer Newsha Tavakolian is planning a book on Iranian women. The nose craze, she says, started with satellite TV from the West.
"Everyone saw how the Western women, they have very small nose and look almost like Barbie, and the Iranian women, they see them and they say, 'Oh, I want to look like them,'" says Tavakolian. "They want to make their nose small."
CBS News maakte hierover een reportage, waarin ook Newsha Tavakolian aan het woord komt.
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