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Mathira: ‘Yeah, so what if my top fell down?’
A wardrobe malfunction left Mathira partially exposed at Fashion Pakistan Week.
A wardrobe malfunction mid-stride left Mathira partially exposed, as her white top fell down. PHOTOS SOURCE: TWITTER.COM
KARACHI: It took over two years for Fashion Pakistan Week to come together and just a few steps down the cat walk for TV show host Mathira to provide the event its defining fashion faux pas.
A wardrobe malfunction mid-stride left Mathira partially exposed, as her white top fell down. Not to be fazed by the accident in a hall full of onlookers and flashing cameras, she continued her walk and later shrugged off the incident on Twitter, stating, “Yeah so what if my top fell down. S*** happens at fashion week.”
The incident led to an uproar on Twitter, making Mathira a top trend in Pakistan.
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#Pakistan crosses another milestone of modernity as model Mathirahas wardrobe malfunction at Fashion Week. My, how far we’ve come.
Oops! Mathira does a boob boo! #FPW3
Wardrobe malfunction? Don’t think so considering who it happened to, anyone else and I’d believe. #mathira.
Apparently, Mathira has had a wardrobe malfunction. We are talking Janet Jackson level my friends. Whoever gets me the pics. Indebted 4ever
Was it just a teaser from the controversy queen Mathira or a wardrobe malfunction.
Mathira’s wardrobe malfunction is hardly a malfunction, doesn’t anyone remember Fayezah Ansari’s wardrobe faux pas la TeeJays?
@faizanlakhani Mathira for nishan e imtiaz ! #Shameless
Mathira – The Paris Hilton of Pakistan! Mathira – The Paris Hilton of Pakistan!
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Um. Honestly, ALL Pakistanis see a lot more on a daily basis via Bollywood and Pakistani channels’ coverage(pun intended) of Bollywood. Fuzool ka shor.
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This sick obsession with what women wear and the length of their clothes has reached insane levels.So,her top slipped,what’s the big deal in that.This stems from a misogynistic mentality that considers the female body as something inherently sinful and promotes the stereotype of women as evil temptresses who must be kept hidden behind black cloth to save the world from their sinful bodies.
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Good on Mathira for not being fazed by the bullies who like nothing better but to attack women who don’t submit to their caveman mentality.She dares to live her life as she wants and not according to what men dictate.
Her courage in face of extreme hate in a patriarchal society like ours is heartening.
She is regularly attacked because she does what very few pakistani women are ever able to do, live life according to their own wish and not as slaves to the demands of the men in the family.
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This was hilarious. Good job et for lightening up my day
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wont’ be surprised if it wasn’t an accident.
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Shameless!
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no problem. absolutely whatever.
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She’s right,there’s hardly anything to hide,lol.
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@Sharjeel Khan: Then lets clap for all the ladies who like to get their full/partial nudity on.. Raise a glass for bay-sharmi and beghairat-pan.. Hell yAA..!! :P lolz..
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This is not the Pakistan envisioned by great iqbal and quaid e azam….I am sorry my great leaders…:((((
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So what? It’s okay if a Bollywood actress struts scantily clad on our televisions but it’s obscene if a Pakistani does the same?
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@Sharjeel Khan:
Ahh……I don’t know why Pakistani ‘liberals’ always equate modernity with nudity…I mean can’t they just stress young generation to focus on studies, so that they can come up with a Microsoft type company in Pakistan???…
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@Abdul Moiz:
Well this is what the Allah ( SWT) has ordered woman that they should cover themselves properly and I don’t think so that we, as Muslims. Can challenge the order of the great lord…..
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grow up everyone. Its part of fashion:)Recommend
@Shadytr33:
Begharaitpan and besharmi more aptly describe the mentality of people who regard women as a source of besharmi and beghairti. A woman’s body is her own,not the jaagir of any man.
Those who regard women as a source of sin and shame are the ones who are the most beghairat of all.
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@Shadytr33:
or maybe you should mind your own business, women are not your slaves, who knows you/I maybe bay-sharm/bay-ghairat too in our own ways but why target women only?? Let us correct ourselves please and please don’t misuse/misquote the Quran/Hadith to try and correct others, we ourselves are bay-sharm/beghiariat and yet only target our women.
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I’m sure who evr is condemng ths act must hv clickd to see the enlargd pictre, hypocrite ppl
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Typical misogynistic responses in some of the comments above who are using religion to promote the subjugation of women. For far too long women have been subjected to imprisonment to satisfy the insecurities of men.
Insecure men riddled with inferiority complexes worry about how long or short a girl’s clothes are. They then take assistance of religion to further cloak their insecurities. Religion has been a useful tool for misogynists over the centuries to hide their own insecurities.
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Her top slipped for a fraction of a second. She didn’t strip on the walkway.
Start acting like adults. Mathira had the gravitas and the maturity to shrug it off, and so should you.
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@Zia: This is not the Pakistan envisioned by great iqbal and quaid e azam….I am sorry my great leaders
Suicide bombing… terrorism… international isolation…. low education level…. no, no and nope. It’s a little slip of a woman’s clothes that amounts to treason against Iqbal’s Pakistan!
You rock, Zia!
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A it is she is an exhibitor
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I don’t see why this was newsworthy. So her top fell, big deal. You would expect an uproar with twitter comments from a tabloid, but not from a reputed newspaper like the Tribune.
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You should not have printed the obscene photographs.
Please practice clean journalism,it is our family newspaper!
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I’ve seen worse… or should I say better
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calm down, i thought it was a nip slip!
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Mathira V/S Veena
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Paris Hilton still has some class, Mathira is more like the Rakhi Sawant or Anna Nicole Smith of Pakistan. A bit tacky.
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@Faraz: Those who don’t have the power to stop others from doing the questionable only shows that they themselves are involved in questionable things. Also many people including you want others to mind their own business because you people don’t want other people to comment on your unquestionable findings. Lets together make a better place instead of letting people act crazy and being silent about it.
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@Faraz: I don’t know why you being a feminist. I would not target a women. Actually I would target any one who goes against morality.
Also to all those people who feel that everyone should shut their mouths whenever something weird happens, let me tell you one thing. “There are 3 degrees of criminals. The 1st degree being the one who committed the crime. 2nd degree criminal who stood there watching the crime. The 3rd degree who knew that the crime will happen but didn’t do anything to stop it.”
According to you Faraz, let people do whatever crazy thing they want, hell let them break laws, lets remain quiet and let the crazy spread.
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A women decently clad and properly covered would be so much respected unlike some people here who want women partially naked for their own enjoyment.Recommend
Sooooooooo she had a wardrobe malfuntion… WHO CARES, whatever, can we please move on now to better things or at least to things that actually matter. Anyone?!
The hate above is disheartening… peace
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I personally don’t think it’s a big deal since we see a lot more skin in the average Bollywood flick these days. Recommend
Pics or it didn’t happen!
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Art imitates life and life imitates art. This scene could easily be from the National Award winning movie Fashion by Madhur Bhandarkar, starring Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and Many others. Also 5 years ago, Carol Gracis had a similar ward robe malfunction. Back then it had created quite a flutter. And I remember reading in an interview that Madhur was inspired to make the movie Fashion excactly on that premise.
Rgds
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Can’t see anything
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Zia, why are you looking at the pictures in the first place? Isn’t that forbidden too? Correct yourselves first. You have no right to tell anyone else what to do. Everybody will do as they wish and you can keep whining about it as much as you want.
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Clearly if we are going to allow this fashion extremism, then we have to face consequences more than this accident. even look at the shameful act she didn’t even get ashamed after this happened. this is bold or Shamelessness! Fashion shows should be banned in Islamic Republic!
http://syedowais.blogspot.com/2012/04/modesty-is-best-policy.html
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i guess our baysharmi and bayghairti only revolves around ladies without purdah, what about the other stuff which we do everyday, lie, cheat, steal, harassing the weak, usurping the rights, bending the law as we wish, not stopping on red signal, using foul language often, not respecting the others, over profiteering, bribe etc etc etc. but our bayghairti and baysharmi is all about the clothes on the body of a lady.
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I never understood why fashion shows take place in Pakistan. Does anyone seriously believe women can wear these dresses and step into the streets? The only fashion show should be in Hijabs.
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@ahmed: A lady is the one who is modest. a woman can not be called a lady who is in minimal clothing. Respect should be given to those who deserve it. Not the other way round
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I think the top falling down was a part of the act.
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so woman’s liberty will be measured how long cloths shes going to wear? bikini girls for that instance are the most liberals
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I give the girl credit for carrying it off as if nothing much happened ….. because in fact nothing much happened.
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These malfunctions are mostly stage managed. In other words, the malfunction is by design. It’s a useful tactic to generate buzz.
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The biggest of noise created on the smallest of issues! It’s a pair of breasts, ladies and gentlemen, not atomic bombs like the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why is the general public so afraid of the human body?
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Who cares? And its not that big a deal people.
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Publick-city ishtunt :)
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even on purpose .. but was still a slip .. bravo mathira u carried yourself well.
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Aur, aur aur!!!
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@Shadytr33:
So you want to be another Maya Khan…what’s the limit?? Don’t play God (istagfar) because you are no judge and stop this moral policing ..you are nobody to tell people what to do, everybody decides for themselves and Allah is the one and only judge.
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I was down and out coz of usual monday morning downer, but mathira has cheered me up.. lolz
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This girl has always seemed shady, and I for one won’t be surprised if this was planned. Recommend
@big rizvi…
Yup bro they werent atomic bombs… Rather they WERE hiroshima and nagasaki… I didnt see nothing… :p
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We should not abuse Mathira. Infact she is not aware of social or moral values. We should try to convince her that dear girl it’s immoral. This is Pakistan, please don’t hurt our sentiments.. This is what we can do. We’ll make Pakistan an islamic state by convincing them. No violence, no abuse!
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Pakistani men are sick! Things like these happen all the time. Grow up, it’s 21st Century.
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Yet another Veena Malik in the offing…Recommend
What if same would have happened to a male model and he would have gone on twitter saying “so what! his pants fall down” ??
My answer it would less interested, with less comments on News article, and less entertaining.. and would not have even bothered so many citizens…
Dear all,
Please except it that if any thing has happened accidentally, it doesn’t mean that it has been done with a means of providing some entertainment and blogging…
We all need to grow up yaar!
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Those of you who are posting under muslim names, we know who is what. We are not idiots. First of all a women walking down the ramp like a piece of meat is not progress. It is exploitation. Exploitation of her gender and her physical attributes. The progress is women becoming a doctor or a teacher and that is not un-islamic.
Second If the wives and daughters of Holy Prophet P.B.U.H were asked to do pardah, what gives you the right to reject it. Are you too good. Are you better then them. Did Allah gave another islam for you. If Allah asked muslim women to cover them and muslim men to lower their gaze, are (Allah forbid) you more powerful than him? Who gave you the right. It is not “moral policing”. Right and wrong is clearly written in quran. Go against it and be ready to face the consequences from Allah.
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Absolutely nonsense
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@Zeeshan Bilal:
its not the matter of jaagir of man or something.
We all are jaagir of GOD buddy. God has defined limits. Even men can’t take off their pants in front of public because its forbidden by GOD. It doesn’t mean that our body is a jaagir of woman. God has defined some norms and values for living a life, that we are supposed to follow. Keep a difference between jungle and human society. In old age, people were used to live naked, we are moving forward. Covering you body properly is a sign of modernization.Recommend
This is nothing new. Intentional wardrobe malfunctions existed in 1902!
Here is what Henry Savage Landor writes in his book A JOURNEY FROM FLUSHING (HOLLAND) TO CALCUTTA, OVERLAND in 1902 about Persian women who are covered in chaddars:
“Yet with some good fortune one occasionally gets glimpses of women’s
faces, for face-screens and chudders and the rest of them have their
ways of dropping occasionally, or being blown away by convenient winds,
or falling off unexpectedly. But this is only the case with the prettier
women, the ugly old ones being most particular not to disillusion and
disappoint the male passers-by.
This is possibly another reason why hasty travellers have concluded that
Persian women must all be beautiful.”
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Brother Salman, Why are you bringing religion & prophets in a fashion show? If you are so religious than in the first place, you should not be reading this unless you are a hypocrat just like our Mullahs. Go read something else & leave us alone. I will not be sharing my grave with you therefore do not worry about me.
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@Salman: “Those of you who are posting under muslim names, we know who is what.”
You are assuming that only non-Muslims can be supportive of a woman who does not allow herself to be bullied by moral police. What about Zeenat Aman, Parveen Babi, Shabana Azmi, Katrina Kaif?
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there’s just something more provocative about brown muslim ones than your run of the mill white ones. We live in a time in which there is no monetory benefit in supporting religion, but bashing it (blogs, websites, books, fashion shows, etc) does and the incriminator can live quite the lavish life
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@gp65: A muslim is supposed to conduct in a certain manner. Man or woman both. It is not about moral policing. It is about stating right and wrong. Period. Both are clear. Black and white.
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@Riaz Khan: Oh so i should not be reading this. If i read and comment, i am a hypocrite. Wow. So much for “listening to the opinion of others even if makes your blood boil”.
Thing is simple. I am stating right and wrong. Read the comments from top to bottom. Every body objecting to this has been criticized as a “Jahil ujjad ganwar” who wants to enslave women. boo hoo. I am only stating the expected conduct of a muslim. If it touches a nerve with you then you should take a good hard look at your conduct. For commenting on this article i do not need to see the pics. I can read the content and then comment. And btw it is a mullah who carries the ceremony of nikkah which makes consummation of a marriage legitimate. It is a mullah who carries the janaza of a muslim after his death. It is a mullah who teaches you Quran. No matter how much you hate a mullah, you cant do without him.
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WOW! ET loves to stir up a controversy while it censors a simple comment. WHO IN THEIR RIGHT SENSE WOULD MAKE A BLOODY COSTUME LIKE THAT? The upper part is silk, the lower part is some silky cotton. It had to slip when Mathira would have breathed in or out. Rather than putting religion on the front line, it seems ET is too scared to criticise the horrendous design of this monstrosity. Recommend
@Me:
At least Mathira had a bra/bikini top to cover some of her breast area.
You obviously have no clue about what Paris Hilton is capable of doing – How can you say Paris Hilton has some class?
Paris was filmed topless/nude with another man involved in intimate physical relations :(
It is all over the internet…
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why are we forgetting that the majority of people in pk are Muslims. Why is islam being brushed under the carpet all the time. I knnw my comment will be read as a mullahs point of view but Please! Et should shame itself for promoting immodesty!
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All opinions aside, can anyone hold equal blames for the designer as well?! Wardrobe malfunctions are the results of the designer’s incompetence, not the model!
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@Zia:
sooo allama iqbal and quaid were known to imbibe alcohol regularly and rarely ascribed to the ‘islamic’ code in their personal lives. but they envisioned a pakistan where women strut their stuff in burkas only? shaabaash
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@zainab: because who CARES if they are muslims or sikhs or atheists. kisi k mazhab se behan aap ko farak kia parhta hai. islam being brushed under the carpet? how about keeping it at home and trying to be a good muslim instead of condemning others who clearly wont think highly of you for doing so
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@Sarah:
Its because of those people who have confined Islam at home that our society has reached levels of immodesty and corruption and cruelty. If the teachings of Islam had been spread and people would have taught others whats right and wrong, we would have been at a much better position tight now as a society and a nation. “Being ignorant about something can be excused but wanting to stay ignorant can not be”
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@Faraz:
Listen man, I’m NOT God and I don’t pretend to be. I just share whats His message is. Share my opinion on whats right and wrong in the light of Islamic Law because I have studied it. People should know what good and whats bad. Whether anybody wants to listen or not, that’s not my problem. They will pay for their own actions and I will for mine. “There are two kind of people, an ignorant person and a person who wants to stay ignorant. The latter wants to stay ignorant so that they don’t have to change for good, because everybody hates change”
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Seriously, you call this ‘top falling down’ a lot of us have been gravely disappointed!
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I would take a ‘top dislodged’ model strutting on the catwalk anytime over a figure of enemies of islam blood thirsty gun wielding fanatic. Honestly, I would like the same for my 12 year old son to view as well.
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Why not someone counter these fashion shows with the modesty fashion clothing shows ? I think this would be a best step a fashion show for females only, and media not allowed, so that women can see and buy the clothing, this will be a great step in making a modest environment.
http://syedowais.blogspot.com/
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A mere publicity stunt from a woman who has nothing to lose!!
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Also visit the consequences of the fashion billboards all over the city:
http://syedowais.blogspot.com/2012/04/modesty-is-best-policy.html
and what is the reaction to them
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she is another veena malik but purified veena malik
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