Hi, my name is Sadie Bushara and I graduated from Wakefield School, class of 2018 and will be attending Wellesley College, class of 2022. From a young age, I have been interested in the fashion industry. Originally solely to appease my desire to look good, the fashion industry, with time, took on a different meaning. Fashion became in my eyes a way to express myself creatively through original designs, as well as a cultural tool I could use to better understand the world I had been born into.
Feminism, however, was so heavily embedded in me by my parents that I did not put half as much thought into the rights that had been given to me from a very young age as I did what I chose to wear in the morning. Growing up in three different countries, in two different languages, the rights that I had as a young girl and a woman was not something that I questioned. Yet, like fashion, my views on feminism evolved. I realized that the rights of women were not a given in all societies, even ones I had been a part of. I realized that the way my parents had raised me was not the way that all young women had been raised. I realized that women were not yet treated equally to men.
In the wake of the 2016 election, these inequalities never stood out more. After crying extensively, I remember discussing extensively with my father the injustice embedded in the U.S political system. In the midst of this discussion, it became apparent that I truly a feminist, but I was not yet informed. Finally, when my senior year came around, I decided to combine my passion and my pain and delve into the influence of feminism on the fashion industry and consequently, the influence fashion had on the feminist movement.
