Faces and Bodies: Gendered Modernity and Fashion Photography in Tehran

Haute Couturein Tehran: Two Faces of an Emerging Fashion Scene

“…Likewise, the plastic female mannequins in shop windows lack facial features, or the upper half of their heads altogether. By contrast, the male mannequins have distinctly drawn features, painted eyes and hair, and individual facial expressions (see Balasescu 2006). …”

Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900–40

“…79 As Alec Balasescu writes, different classes of contemporary Iranian society today adopt and adapt western appearance in different manners, according to their class and political orientation, and western style is far from the monopoly of the 'western classes'. 80 In many ways, and despite changes of regime, Iranian men still abide by the rules of hegemonic masculinity as they were set by elite western-educated men at the turn of the twentieth century.…”