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MARCH2017 | ISSUE 01
DEBORAH HUNG DOES PARIS
RAMI AL ALI COUTURE AT THE RITZ BY SYRIAN COUTURIER Style tips from the world's best bloggers
EXCLUSIVE!
ALINE WATFA IN PARIS
Plans for fashion week in Dubai, Paris and Milano
TOP TRAVEL RESORTS AND EVENTS ELIE SAAB DREAMY HAUTE COUTURE COLLECTION MARCH 2017 |
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Table of Contents
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Paris Couture Week Review:
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Fashion Forward Dubai
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SKI WORLD CUP & horse races in St.Moritz
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Elie Saab haute couture with Aline Watfa
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Focus In Paris: Rami Al Ali Haute Couture Clients and Fashion Shows in Paris St. 07 Moritz - Swiss Top Events Gstaad and Diamonds 07 Basel World 07, 12-Fashion Forward Dubai 15 SKI WORLD CUP & horse races 13-15 in St.Moritz 19 Elie Saab style with Alinte Watfa 24 Paris Haute Couture best styles . Front page: Lebanese presenter Aline Watfa wears Elie Saab. We meet with Aline Watfa after the Elie Saab fashion show to get her best style tips (pp. 19-23).
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Focus In Paris: Designer Rami Al Ali Global trendsetter from small place Deir ez-Zor, Syria, Rami Al Ali's first fashion show was for his final graduation project in the early 1990 in Damascus. . Rami al Ali presented his latest, luxurious hand-made couture creations in exually luxurious just restored Palace Hotel Ritz, on Place Vendome. inspired by the Japanese Sakura flower and Kimono "to convey the ephemerality inherent in life, and one’s transition through the years. Employing a stunning display of colours and exhibiting the house’s mastery in materials, the collection sheds light to the luminosity of youth and the movement of such attributes as vigor and maturity with the passage of time.”
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The sky above our head and the Labourtini red heels beneath our feet. Remember that life is good!
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Kingdom of Haute Couture at the Ritz Each look is cut in multiple layers of soft tulle, satin and lame. The soft color palette is of shades of beige, with touches of creole pink, silver grey and sakura prints. From there we see the couturier embellishing each piece in the tens of thousands of small cherry blossoms, which are reinterpreted as both embroideries and as appliqués. Each has been sewn by hand in his atelier onto the fronts of the dresses. However most remarkably we find them embellishing the bust, the hips, the inner sleeves, the necklines, etc. And when the blossoms do not appear as appliqués or embroideries, they are still present as motifs that have been laser cut into the materials.
Visitors to Maldives do not need to apply for a visa pre-arrival, regardless of their country of origin, provided they have a valid passport, proof of onward travel, and the money to be self-sufficient while in the country. Agriculture and manufacturing continue to play a lesser role in the economy, constrained by the limited availability of cultivable land and the shortage of domestic labour.
The sky above our head and the Labourtini red heels beneath our feet. Remember that life is good!
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Focus In Paris: from Dior dress that took 1800 hours to make, to Viktor & Rolf collection from recycle old dresses Every January, world's most prestigious design houses present their latest and most luxurious hand-made couture collections for spring and summer. This time house of Dior was in focus, not only because Dior presented dresses that took 100s of days to make by hand, but also because Dior has its first woman designer since it was founded by Christian DIor almost 80 years ago. The most interesting trends are hand made dresses from old textile pieces connected w gold.
The sky above our head and the Labourtini red heels beneath our feet. Remember that life is good!
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EDITOR'S NOTE
March 2017 evens As if the fashion month wasn't fully booked,
Following Fashion Forward Dubai, is the
Dubai is preparing again to host region’s
annual Swiss watch and jewellery
best established style platform Fashion
extravagabza: Baselworld 2017, the show
Forward at Design District (d3) from March
that is universally acknowledged as the
21-23.
unique platform for the watch and jewellery
The 9th season of Fashion Forward Dubai,
industry, supervised by Swiss Federal
will showcase the 2017 Autumn/Winter
Councillor Simonetta Sommaruga. With
collections of some of the best designers
1,500 of the world’s most famous and
from MENA region and beyond. Expect the
prestigious brands exhibiting.
best in design: Dubai-based award wining couturiers par excellence, Furne One of Amato and Ezra from the Philippines, among many others.
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Amazing aline Watfa with love from Paris The coldest fashion month in Europe would not feel so warm and beautiful
Aline Watfa in Ellie Saab 2017
without the many fashionable guests from much warmer parts of the Earth, like this famous warm smile from Lebanese presenter Aline Watfa. Resisting cold January air in Paris, we meet Aline Watfa just after the Elie Saab fashion show and we could learn great deal about style, keeping warm and chic at the sam time, and most importantly keeping smiling and friendly at all time.
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Golden glamourwas one of main focus
Elie Saab couture gowns represent
with more elaborate gowns in his
ultimate sophistication not only in design
sparkling, red carpet-oriented
and handcraft but also in elegance and
collection included a sheer tulle gown
wearability. While many couture houses
with hazy pale blue and silver
make extremely complicated couture
placement embroidery evoking boats
outfits that can be difficult to wear or
on the river Nile and palm trees, with
dance in, Elie Saab provides a fairytale
the silvery fronds of one tree peeking
dresses that are as wearable as the look
over the sweetheart neckline. Other
on models and in his sparkling, red
highlights included a long-sleeved
carpet-oriented collection will be sure
It's GOING TO BE REMEMBERED AS ONE OF
gown in tan satin peppered with deep
highlight at any event.
THE BEST COUTURE COLLECTIONS THAT
blue “evil eye” motifs.
We look forward to future collections
THE lEBANESE DESIGNER HAS PRESENTED
Oriental gold embroideries and
from this Lebanese talent who always
SO FAR IN PARIS.
geometric crystal formations —
gives clients more than they could expect
presented as a surprise feature on the
or imagine. Bravo!
Elie Saab jr. with Aline Watfa in Paris after the Fashion Show
Guests were transportet to the glamour of
back of a cape, say — were a nice
the golden age of Egyptian cinema, with the
update on the designer’s signature
designer citing actress Faten Hamama — in a
embellishments. Mini crystal tassels
party scene from film “I Don’t Sleep,” starring
and draped chains of gold beads on
opposite Omar Sharif — among inspirations.
the bibs of dresses added movement.