The woman behind the "burkini". Dubai fashion designer Jenny Nicholson talks about her swimwear line that has caused controversy in France.
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00:00Well, we actually don't call it Islamic swimwear.
00:14We call it conservative, fashionable swimwear.
00:17Our main idea is to offer our customers the choice of being able to cover fully, three-quarters
00:24or even short sleeves.
00:26It's not Islamic.
00:28It has never been promoted as Islamic, but we do offer a headpiece as a choice.
00:34Because there is a lot of fabric in the swimsuits themselves, they can become heavy if there
00:39wasn't a rapid dry.
00:40It dries basically within ten minutes of getting out of the water.
00:44It's got a huge following, and as you can see from the press coverage from Carol in
00:50France, when she was banned from the swimming school, the public swimming school, I should
00:53add, that it's out there.
00:57There's a lot of authority out there, and more and more other items are coming on the
01:01market of similar design.
01:04My swimwear is not unhygienic.
01:07My swimwear is made out of the exact fabrication as is anyone else's swimsuit.
01:12France has a stance on certain things, and in the public pool areas, they do ban board
01:20shorts, they do ban rash guards, they make you wear a head cover, and then they put it
01:26down to hygienic reasons.
01:29And I truly do believe that this is based on that.
01:32I don't believe it's gotten to the controversy of being political, because no way is my swimsuit
01:40political.
01:41You know, it's just a choice for women to wear.