Turban and the Power Dressing. Part 1.

Dolly Madison was the first US First Lady to even consider fashion, she realised the way she dressed would help the image of her husband. She wore crazy outfits for the time like turbans and hats with feathers. This First Lady knew just how to stand out.

http://platform-online.net/2014/02/first-lady-fashion-the-art-of-power-dressing/

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Kalpana_Sharma/the-other-half-power-dressing/article1957.ece

about Dolley Madison movie http://mensagens.culturamix.com/frases/frases-de-dolley-madison

and bonus video with the turban maker:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bonus-video/dolley-turban-maker/?flavour=mobile

Turbans in 17th or 18th century Turkish Manuscript

Source: http://www.librit.unibo.it/page/oggetti/oggetto.html


Catalogue of the turbans. Ms., sec. XVII, cart., cc. 81, milimeter 90x240. With 218 colored illustrations to pen and. The manuscript reproduces, in shape of ritratti stilizzati, the various personages who could themselves be met in the Ottoman empire of the sec. XVII. The reference and to the social class, to loads political-administrative with the personage, to the profession, its ethnic-geographic belongings. Every figure contains didascalie in Ottoman Turk and - on the back - its transcription and translation in Italian. Album of the sort, with galleries of personages, not rare in the Ottoman art, is present in several Italian and European libraries. The importance and the rarita one of this copy are in the documentation, rich and lively above all for the turbans and hairdos of the personages, nonche in the wealth of the didascalie bilanguages.

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Paul Poiret

Fortress Turban

This Turban is known as a Dastaar Boonga or turban fortress worn by a group of skilled warrior Sikhs called Akali Nihangs.

It was used to protect the head in battle and to hold their weapons, including daggers, swords and metal throwing discs.

- See more at: http://sikhsangat.org/2013/sikh-fortress-turban-to-go-on-display-at-museum/#sthash.VPfxedmd.dpuf

Space making sound

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SALAT #1
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"Salat" is the title of an ongoing art project by Johannes Gees.
"Salat" started in 2007, when Johannes Gees installed several loudspeakers on a number of Swiss churches, which played the muslim "call for prayer" from the towers, until they were seized by the police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YivGTL...

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SALAT #2
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In 2008/9, Johannes Gees made "Salat #2", combining the call for prayer from the main mosque in Mecca with the christian prayer "Ave Maria" in a traditional chanted version originally recorded in the Swiss mountains.
http://vimeo.com/1722526

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SALAT #3
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Salat #3 is the third stage of the project. It is supposed to happen in a muslim country. One of Johannes Gees loudspeakers is to be installed on a minarett, playing the "Ave Maria" at official prayer times.

Johannes Gees is currently seeking support to realize this ambitious project. The artist can be contacted at johannes.gees@gmail.com.

Minaret in Poznan, Poland

 





http://www.minaret.art.pl/
project by Joanna Rajkowska - unrealized

Slavs and Tatars

http://www.slavsandtatars.com/