The most intimate form of control is when it wears a woman's face.

The most intimate form of control is when it wears a woman's face.

Woman VS Woman grew from something I witnessed: women in uniform stopping other women on the street. That image stayed with me—not as a political fact, but as a feeling I could not name.

I chose not to represent what I saw directly. Instead, I worked with paint on fabric, allowing colour to carry what I could not express otherwise. The black holds the weight of imposition. The red traces the quiet pain of living within a system that reaches into the most ordinary moments. And the white—the white is longing: the kind of freedom we all carry somewhere inside, whether or not we speak of it.

This project is about women in Iran—not a single moment, but the texture of everyday life when choice is no longer yours to make. The conflict in the title is not only between two women. It is also the conflict that begins within, when the world you inhabit has already been decided for you.

Rather than illustrating events, I approached the work as a form of emotional translation—a language of colour and form that holds what words too easily simplify.

The garments do not explain. They remain suspended in that fragile space where endurance and longing exist side by side, unresolved.

Woman VS Woman grew from something I witnessed: women in uniform stopping other women on the street. That image stayed with me—not as a political fact, but as a feeling I could not name.

I chose not to represent what I saw directly. Instead, I worked with paint on fabric, allowing colour to carry what I could not express otherwise. The black holds the weight of imposition. The red traces the quiet pain of living within a system that reaches into the most ordinary moments. And the white—the white is longing: the kind of freedom we all carry somewhere inside, whether or not we speak of it.

This project is about women in Iran—not a single moment, but the texture of everyday life when choice is no longer yours to make. The conflict in the title is not only between two women. It is also the conflict that begins within, when the world you inhabit has already been decided for you.

Rather than illustrating events, I approached the work as a form of emotional translation—a language of colour and form that holds what words too easily simplify.

The garments do not explain. They remain suspended in that fragile space where endurance and longing exist side by side, unresolved.

Zara Saberi — Contemporary conceptual garment from the Woman VS Woman collection exploring identity and freedom.
Zara Saberi — Contemporary wearable artwork from the Woman VS Woman collection.
Zara Saberi — Artistic fashion piece from the Woman VS Woman collection expressing identity through black colour.
Zara Saberi — Conceptual fashion garment from the Woman VS Woman collection exploring women's experiences through painted textiles.
Zara Saberi — Wearable artwork from the Woman VS Woman collection translating emotion into fashion.
Zara Saberi — Conceptual fashion piece from the Woman VS Woman collection exploring inner conflict and identity.
Zara Saberi — textile composition from the Woman VS Woman collection.
Zara Saberi — Artistic textile composition from the Woman VS Woman collection.
Zara Saberi — Conceptual textile artwork from the Woman VS Woman collection exploring women's identity.
Zara Saberi — Visual narrative through painted fashion in the Woman VS Woman collection.
Zara Saberi — Emotional textile artwork from the Woman VS Woman collection.
Zara Saberi — Artistic expression through fashion in the Woman VS Woman collection by Zara Saberi.
Zara Saberi — Minimal contemporary fashion from the Woman VS Woman collection expressing emotional tension.
Zara Saberi — Conceptual garment from the Woman VS Woman collection featuring hand-painted black, white and red textiles.
Zara Saberi — Hand-painted textile from the Woman VS Woman collection exploring identity through conceptual fashion.
Zara Saberi — Conceptual textile design from the Woman VS Woman collection created with hand-painted fabrics.
Zara Saberi — Hand-painted fashion design from the Woman VS Woman collection combining colour, silence and form.
Zara Saberi — Contemporary conceptual fashion from the Woman VS Woman collection created with painted textiles.
Zara Saberi — Surface design from the Woman VS Woman collection featuring hand-painted artistic details.
Zara Saberi — Artistic garment from the Woman VS Woman collection featuring expressive hand-painted surfaces.
Zara Saberi — Black, white and red textile composition from the Woman VS Woman collection.
Zara Saberi — Hand-painted garment from the Woman VS Woman collection combining art and contemporary fashion.
Zara Saberi — Fashion design from the Woman VS Woman collection translating emotion through colour and form.
Zara Saberi — Textile artwork from the Woman VS Woman collection featuring black, white and red painted surfaces.
Zara Saberi — Fashion artwork from the Woman VS Woman collection featuring black, white and red colour symbolism.
Zara Saberi — Hand-painted textile detail from the Woman VS Woman collection.
Zara Saberi — Contemporary garment from the Woman VS Woman collection featuring expressive painted textiles.
Zara Saberi — Artistic garment from the Woman VS Woman collection exploring silence through hand-painted textiles.
Zara Saberi — Contemporary textile artwork from the Woman VS Woman collection combining fashion and painting.
Zara Saberi — Hand-painted contemporary fashion from the Woman VS Woman collection.
Zara Saberi — Sculptural fashion design from the Woman VS Woman collection combining painting and textiles.
Zara Saberi — Contemporary fashion artwork from the Woman VS Woman collection expressing emotional tension through painted textiles.

Some voices are first heard in silence

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Some voices are first heard in silence .

I Don’t care

A woman wearing a large brown cowboy hat, an orange leather jacket with a sequined embellishment, black lace crop top, gray tutu skirt, and black and orange stockings, standing against a plain background.
A woman wearing a large brown cowboy hat, an orange leather jacket with a sequined embellishment, black lace crop top, gray tutu skirt, and black and orange stockings, standing against a plain background.