Could it be due to the slew of refugees in recent years from the Middle
East fleeing war - torn areas and are swaying fashion in their favour??
Not exact matches
Europe is has seen 500,000 migrants enter the region so far this year, many
fleeing from civil
war in Syria in the Middle
East, according to Frontex, the EU's border protection agency.
In the single month of January 2016, at least 244 people — many of them children — died while trying to make it to Europe,
fleeing violence, persecution and
war in countries in the Middle
East and North Africa.
What becomes of the scientists among those
fleeing war and conflict in Africa and the Middle
East, asks a documentary, Science in Exile
He spent time in 40 refugee camps, meeting people who have
fled war, famine and political upheaval from the Middle
East to northern Africa.
His family
fled west in 1945 as the Russian Army advanced and ended up in
East Germany at the end of World
War II.
As the Second World
War ended, Polke's family
fled to
East Germany, and then to West Germany in 1953.
At the end of World
War II, Polke and his family
fled to
East Germany and, in 1953, escaped to Düsseldorf, where he was trained as a glass painter and subsequently studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Both artists had
fled East Germany prior to the erection of the Berlin Wall, and now sought to discover the radical «possibilities in painting», in response to the bourgeois ideals that had emerged after the
war, due to the wirtschaftswunder («economic miracle»).
Born in 1938, the artist
fled to
East Germany with her family during the Second World
War before eventually abandoning Europe altogether and settling in the United States in 1948.