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Fifty-five years after founding his label in New York, the 83-year-old designer staged his Spring 2023 collection at San Marino's Huntington Library, his first runway show ever held on the West Coast.
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Speaking from her home in Cairo's leafy Maadi suburbs, the twenty-seven-year-old model-turned-actor proves utterly singular. Wrapped in faux fur against a cloudy morning, Heba El-Dessouky is happy in her own skin and would rather cook dinner.
The first woman to model in a hijab on major runways reflects on leaving the industry behind. Models are disposable and replaceable, she says, so she chose to replace modelling with something altogether better.
Dubai-based architect Wael Al Awar is not a big fan of 20th century modern architecture. Rather, he subscribes to a new school of expression that eschews ornamentation and focusses on projects that revive cultural identity and craft as well as encourage public engagements and sustainabi…
The Emirati designer has become a leading voice in the Gulf's design scene, weaving folk stories, geometry and sustainable materials into furniture, objects and installations that reinterpret tradition for a modern audience.
Ruby Rose Korver created Arnie Swim as a passion project but it also serves as an ode to her late father, Arnie Korver. “My father shaped me as a person and taught me so many life lessons. I wanted to create something that makes people feel good, and gives them the freedom to be themsel…
The celebrated creative director speaks candidly about reconciling a glamorous career with a deliberately simple life in Nettuno, the seaside town where he and his wife grew up and chose to raise their own children.
Lyna Khoudri has her work cut out for her in Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’. In the king of kook’s latest film, a love letter to journalism, France and all things quintessentially Anderson, the little-known French-Algerian actress first has to stake a claim for herself in an insan…
The now 40-year-old Egyptian-born architect Tarek Shamma launched his career at London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), graduating with honours in 2009. During the prestigious course, he hit the ground running for Zaha Hadid working on key competitions in Algiers…
Spread across ten beautifully curated rooms, the biggest challenge for Karim Abdul Muttalib and Ann Abukhalil, the two founders of K.A. Interiors, was to make sure the entire villa reflected a unified theme while still giving each room its unique character and identity. To fulfil their …
For the designer Nouchi, every collection begins with a book, transforming the private intimacy of reading into something shared. That softness now shapes a label where home wear and loungewear have naturally become the bestsellers.