08/29/2026
BREAD & Roses : 🔗 in bio.
I spent much of my childhood learning how not to take up space.
Be smart.
Be polite.
Be compliant.
Growing up in Canada with English as my second language made me retreat even further. I was afraid of my accent. Afraid of saying the wrong thing. Afraid of being seen.
But deep down, I knew silence wasn’t me.
I had a voice. I was simply afraid to use it.
For a girl who came from Afghanistan, the path I chose was unorthodox, sometimes unwelcome and often frowned upon.
And now, 20 years into my journey in fashion, I understand something I couldn’t have understood then:
Courage becomes easier when you stop making it only about yourself.
When the purpose becomes bigger than your fear, you speak.
You create.
You take the uncomfortable path.
You use what you have to make someone else’s life a little better.
That, to me, is the meaning of Bread & Roses. 🌹
Bread is what we need to survive.
The roses are what make survival worth it.
Beauty. Dignity. Freedom. Purpose. A voice. The feeling that your existence mattered to someone beyond yourself.
For me, Untold Stories is the roses. 🌹
Maybe my voice took a long time to arrive.
But perhaps it was never meant to speak only for me.
