It’s been a week since Dubai Fashion Week (DFW) ‘24-’25 is done and dusted. The Autumn/Winter collection took the spotlight, prioritizing sustainability and creativity. Dubai Fashion Week is not the same old style of showing sophistication anymore. It’s more about inclusivity than presenting a particular costume, such as their famous haute couture in Dubai. Let’s take a sneak peek at designers who attended the recent season of Dubai Fashion Week.
Zeena Zaki
Standing amidst the extravagant halls of the Palazzo Versace, the world-renowned couturier Zeena Zaki took her Ramadan 2024 collection to the next level, resulting from a long creative process in cooperation with Abu Dhabi Tryano, the city’s luxury hub. Visualise silk fabrics that go with moonlike dances and tangle with each other like fine threads embroidered with a story of female beauty. Think oversized shoulders, bold enough to rival a queen's, framing a kaleidoscope of colours: bright hues of pastel, intense blue-electric, youthful pink and yellow and infinity of black. Each piece represented women's magnificence, and their amazingness might manifest differently - from wide mystical dresses to solemn king capes. It wasn’t only about the clothes, but more like the song that told an anecdote of Ramadan, a one-line version of the old custom now remade for the modern woman.
Rizman and Ruzaini
These acclaimed Malaysian designers mesmerised the audience at Dubai Design District with a captivating display of their eponymous label, Rizman Ruzaini. The runway had a grand and fanciful setting adorned with remarkable bridal gowns and exquisite evening wear. These designs show their new autumn-winter collection of the year 2024. Through its magnificence, the 17th Century Mughal Empire and its Empress Mihr-un-nissa shone brightly. Narrating this historic memory with Bazaar Arabia, the designers revealed that they created this particular collection in tribute to the grandeur. Exhibits were lined up depicting ceremonial gowns with necklines rounded to form a heart, and the shoulders were structured while the shoulders were made from radiant fabrics that shone gracefully. With the most incredible attention to detail, the best-designed pieces were emblazoned with bright beadwork that accentuated the middle of women and the necklines, thus adding a very tasteful element to every dress. Notably, Rizman Ruzaini made headlines during their SS24 showcase when supermodel Naomi Campbell appeared viral, closing the show in an intricately beaded dress paired with a matching cape. The design house continues to captivate the fashion world with its innovative and luxurious creations, making each runway presentation a spectacle.
Maison Sara Chraibi
Recently known for the high-end creations featured in her debut parade at Dubai Fashion Week 2024-’25. Drawing on her role as one of the most revered Parisian high art couturiers, she emphasised the magic of the Dubai fashion scene and its largely fashion-oriented audience. Influenced by East Africa and Morocco, the designer designed her collection, consisting of pieces created for the great Dubai show. As Chraibi did himself, Chraibi, a self-taught fashion, was also the paramount fusion between modernity and tradition. Sustaining authentic Arab and Islamic identity, she wants to picture a different angle and showcase cultural differences worldwide. Nevertheless, Chraibi's talk at Dubai Fashion Week symbolises her trying to cross the divide between the East and the West through her creations and designs.
Eric Mathieu Ritter
Through his label, the Eco-fashion revolutionary continues to set a precedent for sustainable fashion with his eco-friendly designs. Still, Ritter considers his creation to be, above all else, a symbol of the human race, its culture on earth, and the world itself. Roper introduced his new range of suits to the audience in Fashion Week in Dubai, overwhelming them with an enchanting mind-wandering vision of a school where high limits were set for imagination and breaking free from the rule. Confronting how education goes, the designer questioned what uniform is, what it’s all about and what it imposes on us. Furthermore, he wanted to break through the limits of traditional uniforms to overcome the restrictions. Ritter's artistic approach, on the contrary, consists of his deconstruction and recomposition of uniforms to impede conformity. Furnishings, also in keeping with the Emergency Room, offer clever reuse of items such as socks and curtains, a wink at the mindful fashion ecosystem.
Moreover, his fashion label collaborated with a smartphone brand, Nothing, to showcase their latest collection, 'What Am I To Do With All That Is Left?' This sustainable yet tech-savvy runway transformed surplus materials into new garments, narrating a story of resilience and creativity across past, present, and future segments, with nods to nostalgia, collective grief, and hope symbolised through an all-white palette carrying products by Nothing.
Dima Ayad
Dima Ayad’s last artwork became another trip to DFW to the past-golden age of the 90s. The glamour of the runway blazed with bold earthy hues such as chocolate and caramel, earthy shades, and the warm colour of sand. Each individual distilled the feeling of the diversity of life and dance of things retro and modern; for being its pace, they beautifully danced through dull life. Think of style, a touch of the unexpected, sophistication through a wink, and a little touch of technology to add to the extravaganza. Forget minimalism. Still building up on the expansive texture and drama was the ultimate goal of this gathering. Tulle twirled as luxurious fabrics whispered to the skin, where feathers silently represented fallen angels and intricate designs narrated the fading grandeur. The termini of fabrics drifted from gold into the liquid and shaped bodiless forms without end that crisscrossed the space like the flying carpet of Arpino's time. The flight and the run shed a silent track at the heels of their footfall. Sipping into an amalgamation of sentiment and longing, this ensemble becomes an enticing appeal to revisit memories and their possibilities with the rewriting of rules. But there was one thing about it that was better than the rest of this band - the crowd also swung to the beat.
Michael Cinco
Scram those tiny suits or layers of leather instead! In an unexpected gesture, Michael Cinco (the master of the gowned to send for a spin) just landed on the menswear runway with a bag of fashion judo throws. A collection of clothes drawn from such figures as the stoic Japanese Samurai exemplifies how his new clothing line looks like no other type. Picture this: visiting the field from sheaths of satin ripples to vanes of dark silk – tied in kimono style or worn like trouser hybrid, providing all the clues to Michael Caddow's signature versatility and inclusive irresistible style. Its 'young and dynamic' vibe fully reflects the new generation's taste; this ain't your grandpa's menswear.
It’s Time to Wrap Up
Embracing Middle-Eastern aspects, the leading fashion event, Dubai Fashion Week 2024, wasn't simply a catwalk but a global fashion festival with a thriving core in Dubai. Our event wasn't merely referred to as a fashion show with a season's trend and current clothes; it was the magnificence of the beautiful creation with an active fuse of talents from all corners of the world. In addition to public sport being a watching activity, people uniting around a single cause made it essential to daily life.
Dubai Fashion Week was a connecting point where creative minds from diverse backgrounds converged with their fashion revolution ideas and became a global fashion community learning hub. As the final curtain fell, one thing was clear: Aside from being a show-stopping event, Dubai Fashion Week is also a platform towards the potential blossoming of the region's dynamic fashion scene, determined to conquer the world!
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