[custom_adv] Mr Erbil is a gathering of Kurdish men who are widely regarded as Iraq's first gentleman's club and have done away with the traditional tatty outfits of the area and replaced them with snappy suits, perfectly-manicured beards and sharp hairstyles. [custom_adv] Iraqi Kurdistan has been getting a lot of attention lately — but not for the usual reasons. The autonomous region in northern Iraq is still on the frontline in the battle against the Islamic State, but its capital city, Erbil, is now known for another reason: as home to a group of fashionable young hipsters. [custom_adv] Nauzad, 26, emphasized that Mr. Erbil is about a lot more than merely looking splendid. The men are proud of a Mr. Erbil men’s fashion line they are designing and having made by local tailors. [custom_adv] Taking social media by storm, these hipsters have formed a contemporary “gentlemen’s club” to share their love of male couture and promote a more modern, cosmopolitan, and peaceful image of their homeland. Known collectively as Mr. Erbil, they aim to invigorate the local economy and encourage civic engagement, all the while looking dashing for their 100,000 social media followers. [custom_adv] Mr. Erbil holds quarterly seasonal gatherings for all club members at historic sites in the city — which serve as a scenic backdrop for the many photographs and videos the men take of themselves and their latest looks. For a gathering for Newroz, the Kurdish New Year, they wore their traditional Kurdish costumes for a photo shoot in the mountains. [custom_adv] The group of well-groomed hipsters who are attempting to change the way people perceive Iraq by giving it an injection of style with a new clothing brand. [custom_adv] Foreign investment flowed into the oil-rich region following the establishment of Iraqi Kurdistan as a federal entity governed by the Kurdistan Regional Government in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. American and multinational oil companies arrived, and with them shopping malls, cineplexes and other trappings of globalization. [custom_adv] Loud blazers and perfectly-coordinated outfits are the work of clothing brand Mr Erbil - a new clothing brand in Iraq . [custom_adv] The difficult situation continued and many young men were unemployed or underemployed. And then Ahmed Nauzad and his fellow dandy friends Goran Pshtiwan and Omer Nihad decided to launch a men’s club in Erbil in February 2016. [custom_adv] Mr. Erbil holds quarterly seasonal gatherings for all club members at historic sites in the city — which serve as a scenic backdrop for the many photographs and videos the men take of themselves and their latest looks. For a gathering for Newroz, the Kurdish New Year, they wore their traditional Kurdish costumes for a photo shoot in the mountains. [custom_adv] Mr Erbil is a gathering of Kurdish men who are widely regarded as Iraq's first gentleman's club and have done away with the traditional tatty outfits of the area and replaced them with snappy suits, perfectly-manicured beards and sharp hairstyles.
