Women of The Social Outfit

Join The Social Outfit community for a super special women's week panel and eco-styling event!

The 2021 Women's Week theme is "choose to challenge" and at this event, we will be discussing the kind of feminine leadership this world needs, representation, identify, self-expression, fashion, intersectionality and the future we want to create.

Panel guests are inspiring women from The Social Outfit community who are following their passions and making their mark on the world. 

After the panel, guests will be invited into the world of eco-styling as Natalie shares how we can dress to express ourselves while aligning with our values.

Enjoy drinks, nibbles, networking and of course, late-night shopping.

Panel Moderator:

Natalia Shehata - Retail Trainer at The Social Outfit
Natalie comes to The Social Outfit with an 11 year career as an eco stylist, she is also the founder of ‘tommie magazine - the destination for creative Womxn with a conscience’, as well as the National Retail eco stylist for Save the Children Australia Op Shops. She is a strong advocate of decolonizing fashion, raising awareness on the issues of intersectionality within environmentalism and representation within the sustainable fashion space, by elevating the voices and work of BIWoC. Social justice, equity and representation are key issues within all facets of her work.

Panel Guests:

Shahida Haydari - Former Retail Trainee at The Social Outfit 

Shahida Haydari, originally from Afghanistan is a 2nd year University student. She arrived in Australia is 2017 and has been actively involved with multiple community organizations such as SydWest multicultural services, MYAN, WH&Y commission and ReachOut Australia as a youth leader, advocate, Ambassador and a volunteer. Shahida is strongly passionate about women empowerment and issue effecting young people such as mental health. She joined The social outfit as a retail trainee in February.

Parwin Taqawi - Community Coordinator at The Social Outfit  Parwin Taqawi came to Australia in 2014, fleeing war from Afghanistan. She always had a strong passion for social justice, youth advocacy and working with people from Refugee and New Migrant Backgrounds. Parwin, understanding the many struggles of settlement, she took every opportunity to equip herself in order to support other people going through settlement. Parwin has worked and volunteered in diverse areas including Western Sydney University, SydWest MS, Afghan Women On the Move, Australian Airforce Cadets, Initiative of change, MYAN and Youth Action.  Parwin joined The Social Outfit in August 2020 as a Community Coordinator. 

Dusk Devi - Model for The Social Outfit's Spring/Summer Collection

Fijian-Australian Sandhya Dusk Devi Nand is an award-winning photographer, specializing in fashion, travel and performance photography. Dusk is also a writer, theorist and speaker on fashion philosophy and history; mela-feminism; identity; longevity; inclusivity; multi-culturalism; racism; uprooting patriarchy and the fallacy of white supremacy; equity; and sustainability. Her main aim with all that she does is to make inclusivity and multiculturalism the norm, open the world’s eyes to Pacific ingenuity and prove one gets bOlder as they age. 


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