The way we dress seems to define who we are, especially in an age where appearance is often all. Sartorial habits can also stir controversy the way the Islamic woman’s veil did recently. But wherever there is much stricture and unvarying conformity, fashion can assume a unique vibrancy. For Iranian couturier Nina Ghaffari, fashion “is a form of rebellion that the youth choose as their weapon”; something to assert their individualities with. Perhaps the only one of her kind, in more ways than one, Nina Ghaffari satisfies the craving of an image-obsessed clientele, mostly, the youth of Iran.