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Iran police stop Levi's catwalk show in Tehran

Iranian police cancelled a catwalk show set to mark the opening of an unofficial Levi's store in a Tehran shopping centre, the Tasnim news agency reported Thursday. The event was cancelled by "a last-minute police intervention" just before male models were set to walk on stage before a crowd of about 150 on Wednesday night, the hardliner-linked...

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Iran bans fashion show organiser over flag designs

A fashion show organiser in Iran has been banned "until further notice" for staging a catwalk at which models wore variations of the national flag, said media reports on Sunday. The House of Fashion hosted the World Cup-themed show in late June to a mixed audience, sending female models down the runway draped in attire based on flag designs, the...