After about five minutes of meeting with Mariam Polding, the jewelry designer behind the newly launched MeeM brand, you feel like you’re on a sugar high. Her contagious energy and amusing verbosity lends her an eccentric comportment that while common for creative makes, it’s hard to believe that her first “occupations” are as super-mom, competitive tennis player and editor. A […]
On Sept. 6, Ayyam Gallery Damascus presented the exhibition “2012.” Spotlighting recent work by several Damascus-based artists such as Nihad al Turk, Oussama Diab, Mohannad Orabi and Kais Salman, this group show provides an unprecedented look into the complex intertwining of art and politics that has arisen over the past year, as artists have intrepidly responded to widespread turmoil in […]
Tell us @shoesanddrama if you were lucky enough to claw your way through the hysteric crowds to catch a glimpse of your favorite celebrity… or perhaps one of the girls-who-plays-a-Gossip-Girl singing off key at a boutique? Heard they are quite a few.
As Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week officially launches its first day of fashion shows and hosts an evening of fashion icons and celebrities attending “Fashion Night Out,” Saudi fashionistas will no doubt congregate online, checking Twitter and Facebook accounts to see who went where, and even more importantly, who wore what. However, just because you’re stuck wearing sun-absorbing black in 38-degree weather […]
T H E S H O P, Jeddah’s funky vintage boutique, has other treasures besides 1970’s Dior sunglasses and padded jackets from 80s. Tucked behind Ligne Roset on Al-Rawdah Street, T H E S H O P is also an underground art gallery, displaying emerging talents that have yet to sell out and go mainstream! “It’s one of our main […]
