Mina Tahir

Grey Sheep

minatahir

Location

new york / united states

University

BFA Parsons The New School for Design

Graduation year

2018

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Mina Tahir is an Egyptian-American fashion designer whose design sensibility seamlessly blends her heritage, artwork, and textiles with the past, present, and future.

Her work is largely focused on exploring the nuances and dynamic relationship between East & West.

She is a graduate of the BFA Fashion Design program at Parsons School of Design and was awarded the CFDA Future Fashion Graduate (showcased at NYFW Mens July 2018), as well as, the CFDA+ Award for her thesis collection *[“Youth”](https://www.minatahir.com/ss18-youth)* which explores the relationship between Eastern and Western subcultures through the use of technological advances via the re-contextualization of traditional crafts and dress.

In 2021, Mina Tahir was named one of the *Debut Talent* finalists for the *Fashion Trust Arabia Award* for her namesake brand. Her work has been featured in Vogue Italia, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, GQ, and others.

Latest Collection

Spring Summer 2018 YOUTH

Youth revolves around MENA region youth subcultures that references traditional dress & crafts, as well as, skate and hip-hop culture in the Western hemisphere by re-contextualizing dress culture & incorporating digital technologies, traditional crafts, alongside the use of graffiti to reference the importance of digital technologies in allowing youth culture in the MENA region to flourish and different ways in which we voice our opinions in a way that seamlessly brings together East & West.