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French minister compares veiled women to ‘negroes who supported slavery’

– ‘Burqinis’ –

The Swedish high street chain H&M followed their lead, using a veiled Muslim women in its advertising campaign, with the Japanese brand Uniqlo earlier this month announcing it would begin selling hijabs in its London stores.

The British brand Marks & Spencer has also put its toe in the water, marketing full-body “burqini” swimming costumes in its online store.

Last summer Zara, Tommy Hilfiger, Oscar de la Renta and Mango all launched varyingly “modest” collections to coincide with Ramadan.

But Berge, 85, who ran the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house for four decades, decried their “opportunism”.

“These creators who are taking part in the enslavement of women should ask themselves some questions,” he added.

“It is not because women are forced by their husbands to dress in that way that we too have to encourage it,” he insisted.

“In one way they (the designers) are complicit, and all this to make money. Principles should come before money,” Berge argued.

“In life you have to choose the side of freedom,” he said. Rather than covering women up, “we must teach (Muslim) women to revolt, to take their clothes off, to learn to live like most of the women in the rest of the world.”

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