Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche Cut Their Hair in Solidarity With Iranian Women—See Video
glamour.comand Juliette Binoche expressed support for women in Iran by chopping off their hair.Last month, women across Iran against the country's oppressive standards for women following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody on September 16.
Amini was detained by Iran's morality police for wearing a hijab improperly. She was in a coma for three days, and died of what the police reported as a “heart attack.” But eyewitnesses claim they saw police beating Amini, and an anonymous medical official says her cause of death was In Iran, women's hair must be covered; cutting it openly, therefore, is seen as an act of protest. “We want to show them that we don’t care about their standards, their definition of beauty or what they think that we should look like,” 36-year-old Faezeh Afshan, an Iranian chemical engineer living in Italy, told . “It is to show that we are angry.
In our literature, cutting the hair is a symbol of mourning, and sometimes a symbol of protesting. If we can cut our hair to show that we are angry… we will do it," she said.
On Wednesday, October 5, Cotillard shared a video to Instagram showing Binoche chopping off her hair from the top of her head after she says, “For freedom.” Then the video cuts to Cotillard chopping a few inches off her hair. “For the courageous women and men of Iran who are changing the world at this very moment, fighting for freedom.
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