BURQINI DESIGNER KAUSAR SACRANIE TALKS ON CNN IT’S ABOUT ‘LIBERATION, EQUALITY’

Often worn by Muslim women to adhere to Islamic dress codes, burkinis are at the heart of a fierce debate over the French government’s ability to decide what people can wear in public. Makers of the swimsuits say the furor is giving their products big publicity around the globe. Kausar Sacranie, who sells burkinis through…

PARIS – After a month of intense national scandal and heightened international outrage, France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’Etat, on Friday overturned the burkini ban in a coastal area of the south of France. Imposed in the name of secularism, perhaps France’s most sacred ideal, the highly controversial burkini bans – currently affecting 25…

Aisha Gani / BuzzFeed   Among businesses selling hijabs and entrepreneurs selling chocolate-covered dates, designer Kausar Sacranie is talking to the women huddled around her stall at a Muslim lifestyle festival in London where she is displaying her latest collection of burkinis. “Is it lightweight?” asks one woman in a shalwar kameez. “What colours do…