Inside Saudi Arabia’s First Fashion Week
Saudi Arabia hosted its first ever fashion shows last week. Held in the glittering environs of Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, and showcasing international names like Jean Paul Gaultier and Roberto Cavalli alongside local designers, Arab Fashion Week was a powerful metaphor for a country that is in the process of deep transformation. Change, of course, isn’t necessarily easy. And, for a moment, the boundaries between being fashionably late and just not turning up at all were…
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