“What got me interested in fashion was spending time with my grandmother who was a seamstress, and also watching foreign fashion TV channels that were illegal at the time and they still are! I started drawing fashions sketches together with practicing painting and Persian calligraphy whilst in school. Growing up in Iran, you don’t regularly have access to fashion magazines or books, there is no news about it in the media and then there is the ministry of guidance (and morality police) censoring the media and people.” - Gelareh Mofazali