Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. Aheda Zanetti is the designer of the burkini ...

Aheda Zanetti is the designer of the burkini. She's disappointed to learn about the burkini ban from beaches in France because she wants burkinis... 'I Just Want To Go Swimming': Burkini Creator On ...

Australian Lebanese designer Aheda Zanetti (centre), has been vocal about the burkini's ban on certain French beaches. Credit: SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images The controversy over banning the burkini on ...

Talking to Halima Aden is about as energizing as taking four shots of espresso — likely because the model admits she’s had way too much caffeine before our interview. She’s sitting across from me, ...

Reviving a three-year old debate over what constitutes appropriate swimwear for women at the beach, a French city shut down its only public pools after Muslim women attempted to swim wearing burkinis ...

France’s top administrative court ruled Tuesday against allowing body-covering “burkini” swimwear in public pools for religious reasons, arguing that it violates the principle of government neutrality ...

The inclusive catwalk featured the new class of SI Swimsuit Search Finalists, including a 55-year-old model, a fitness instructor with alopecia and a former dancer with an undiagnosed illness that has ...

On the east coast of Africa lies the Zanzibar archipelago, where the locals greet you warmly with “Hakuna Matata,” the Swahili word for “no worries.” It’s a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania that ...

After a group of Muslim women defied a ban on swimming in burkinis at a public pool, locals have threatened to show up naked. Public swimming pools in Grenoble, France—where the weather has topped 104 ...

Halima Aden is now a veteran Sports Illustrated Swimsuit star. The model, 22, made history in 2019 as the first-ever person to wear a hijab and burkini in the pages of the magazine — and now she’s ...

In a first for Sports Illustrated, the magazine's swimsuit runway show held during Miami Swim Week opened with a model in a hijab. Halima Aden's Cynthia Rowley burkini, printed with "Don't change ...