REEM AL KANHAL: Saudi Fashion Soars To International Heights

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By Marriam Mossalli

“I chose him, he didn’t choose me,” asserts Reem Al Kanhal of RK Designs, about how she met her husband. This kind of impenitent role reversal of gender stereotypes in a Kingdom heavily embedded in them is common ground for the outspoken Saudi designer. It’s a perfect illustration of the kind of [...]

DIA-STYLE.COM's Rasha Khouri Talks Fashion & Business to KSA Students

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This week online fashion entrepreneur Rasha Khouri shared her business experience and her professional journey with college students in Jeddah and Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Khouri launched DIA-style.com an e-commerce site, which focuses on the Middle East market. She is a pioneer in the world of online fashion in English/Arabic, and DIA-style.com her most [...]

Designer of the month - Azzedine Alaia

Azzedine Alaia

By Linah Hashmi

His impeccable designs that flow flawlessly on a womans body and those shoes that are both seduction and sophistication have made Azzedine Alaia our designer of the month!

Alaia is a Tunisian-born couturier and shoe designer, particularly successful since the 1980s. His glamorous twin sister inspired [...]

RED MAGIC (Part II)

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Louboutin’s designs are definitely theatrical and sometimes seem to even steal the spotlight. And the women of the stage can’t seem to get enough. With a huge celebrity following that looks more like a directory listing of the whose-who in Hollywood, Louboutin is fulfilling his mission very well. “I noticed most women on stage, [...]

RED MAGIC (Part I)

Christian Louboutin and Marriam M Mossalli

 

If you don’t have them, you want them. And, if you have them, you want more.

That’s the spell of the red sole and the sorcerer behind this red magic is no other than the Christian Louboutin. Born in Paris, Louboutin is Parisian chic and nonchalance, wrapped in one charismatic package. His ability [...]