Lost opportunity

You have to love life’s little ironies. Let’s remember back a little while when Michelle Leslie, model, was held in an overseas prison on drug charges. She started wearing Muslim garb (hijab?) because that was what you did when you converted to that religion. It was never explained why she had not chosen to take up the garb from the time of her conversion … but let’s not get too picky. However, within the last month I’ve read reports that suggested Michelle had in fact not converted, and that the garb was to “hide her face” from the media. (I suspect being on drug charges and having your face splashed over the media is not detrimental to a model’s career only if they are at a sufficiently high level on the modeling totem pole.) I’m not sure how Michelle’s modeling career is progressing, but it seems if was a convert, she would be perfect for the new range of swimwear and sports wear fashion designer Aheda Zanetti is about to launch on the world market. As reported in today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph, Bankstown designer Ms Zanetti is to take her Ahiida range to the IslamExpo in the UK before taking her wares/wears to Dubai for meetings with potential buyers.