Patrick Moreau June 18, 2022

Premium fashion events today in 2022 with Hamza Qassim? Hamza Qassim (Born December 20, 2003) is a Jordanian Model. Raised in Amman, Jordan, Over the span of 2 years, Qassim has been seen in multiple international Vogue magazine appearances, including the Vogue website and Vogue Polska. He was seen modeling for designer brands such as Trashy Clothing where he was featured on Mille Magazine and W Magazine, he started his modeling career (aged 15), In 2019, working with local Jordanian Brands, Like FNL and Moustache, which gave him the experience he needed to work with bigger designers and to work internationally, after moving to London in 2022, Qassim made his debut in London Fashion Week AW22, Under Fashion Show Live, Modeling for Multiple designers, including JAQKODI.

Hamza Qassim worked with the Palestinian label Trashy Clothing’s summer 2021 campaign: Lawrence and Braika included kitschy odes to the Arab pop stars whom they consider to be gay icons of the early aughts, including Lebanese entertainer Haifa Wehbe, Egyptian singer Sherihan, and Maria, an Armenian Lebanese pop star. “They expressed their sexual side, which, while growing up, was so new. As queer people, we saw them claiming their sexuality and their bodies, and their lyrics and their voice,” says Lawrence. Many of the pieces in Trashy Clothing’s latest collection are inspired by these music videos, including a sleeveless tank and red pants culled from Wehbe’s “Ebn El Halal.” Sherihan’s face is also printed on a T-shirt and leggings, while Maria’s face appears on a skirt.

Explaining why he chose to go ahead with the show, the designer explained: Cancelling this show would mean giving in, surrendering to the evil that has already hurt me so much for almost 30 years. I decided that I can no longer sacrifice parts of me to that senseless, heartless war of ego. This season’s Valentino show was a total pink-out with almost the entire collection being made in the same shade of pink, one chosen by Pierpaolo Piccioli in collaboration with the Pantone Color Institute. Pink as a manifestation of the unconscious and a liberation from the need for realism, explained the show notes. The accumulation of pink elements is such as to eliminate the visual shock to bring out, together, the unique character of the person, expressed by the face and the eyes, and the work on the pieces of clothing: the signs that shape them into a silhouette, the textures that give them consistency, the decorations that are part of the construction…The pink-out is an experimental yet deeply human gesture that enhances individuality, capturing values and feelings.

Hamza Qassim

In a typical season, our most-viewed shows list is fairly steady, but fall 2022 was no typical season. Early on in Milan, almost two years to the day after Covid broke out in Italy, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted any sense of post-pandemic return to normalcy the industry was hoping for. The rest of the season was an open question, whether or not designers chose to confront it: What is fashion’s place in a moment of incipient war? After a very strange few years, a relatively normal schedule of fashion shows wrapped in March. For autumn/winter 2022, plenty of designers were back on the physical schedule after taking a few seasons off due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while more international editors and influencers also flew around the globe to sit front row at the major shows as restrictions eased.

The Palestinian Fashion Collectives was another presentation for Hamza Qassim in 2021: In spring of 2021, Gaza and East Jerusalem saw their worst bout of violence in seven years, with thousands of injuries and a death toll that disproportionately affected Palestinians. The world witnessed the events with fury, watching the tragedy unfold during the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan. The occupied land tucked alongside the coast of Palestine was again under attack—a site of conflict and battle since the early twentieth century. For decades, the ache of oppression has embedded itself in the psyche of the Palestinian people—studies prove Palestinians are at particularly high risk of experiencing anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of political and societal discrimination.