Paria Farzaneh has built her platform paria /FARZANEH through a fiercely independent exploration of her Iranian heritage. Over the past five seasons, Farzaneh has used her brand as a means to challenge the western perception of Middle Eastern culture and aesthetic, by boldly blurring the lines between the two distinctly different worlds that have informed her experience.
Since graduating from London's Ravensbourne University in 2016, Paria has rapidly gained notoriety within the menswear scene, gathering a significant amount of stockists globally. Paria was selected as the British Fashion Council's NEWGEN recipients in 2019 and also nominated for the LVMH Prize 2019, and has been working extensively with Converse on bespoke collaborations.