Fashion
Deana Shaaban collection: Africa meets 'Little House on the Prairie'
14 Mar 2012
Last Saturday, Deana Shaaban launched her 2012 spring/summer collection at “Cairo’s first pop-up venue for art, fashion and brands,” 18.213 in Maadi. The collection mixes two different worlds of fashion: bold, warm colors...
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Top 8 tips for shopping downtown
04 Mar 2012
Downtown is a culturally rich part of the city, but it is also shopping heaven for those who are looking for top merchandise. If you are hitting the city center for a shopping spree, make sure to keep the following in mind:
One: Leave...
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Spring Fashion: Bold is gold
27 Feb 2012
As winter is dragging out its frosty hues, fashion gurus are busy showing off their new spring creations for the year 2012. Lots of pleasant surprises await fashionistas this season, from brighter colors to novel prints.
The general trend...
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Salons prescribe collagen treatment for unhealthy hair
31 Jan 2012
As French beauticians never fail to remind us, “Il faut souffrir pour etre belle,” (you must suffer to be beautiful) and as far as hair treatments go, this seems to ring true. Whether you are bleaching your hair a golden blond...
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Azza Fahmy jewelry in the British Museum
10 Jan 2012
Designer Azza Fahmy will soon be exhibiting a nine-piece jewelry collection at the British Museum in London that makes use of religious symbolism to convey Islamic ideas.
The collection, which is to be displayed in the Grenville Room store...
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S Jewelry: Recycled beauty
02 Jan 2012
Sara Kouedi is the new face on the jewelry block — and she's one of the first recycled jewelry designers in Egypt.
The Faculty of Fine Arts graduate left architecture and started her design career a couple of years ago with the...
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A year in review: Top 10 fashion statements of 2011
30 Dec 2011
Worldwide, 2011 was a frenzied year by all means, from political uprisings to natural disasters. This has created room for some aspects of society to grow, among them fashion.
Fashion is the mirror that reflects the face of...
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Fashion disaster at the Townhouse: My dress is Ugly
02 Nov 2011
In collaboration with NGOs el-Takeiba and Jesuit Egypt, the Townhouse Gallery on Tuesday launched a fashion show entitled “My Dress is Egyptian” as part of the Being Egyptian festival. Despite good intentions, the event was...
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Local designers present striking fall/winter collections
26 Oct 2011
Two of Egypt's most prominent fashion designers, AminaK and Deana Shaaban, recently launched their fall/winter 2011/2012 collections. Although the new collections have little in common, they both reflect a young and fresh take on...
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Tamara Wearable Art: Made with love
11 Oct 2011
Tamara Wearable Art is a new fashion line that was launched earlier this year by young designer Dina Fahmy. The young artist has started her career with a line of embroidered cotton shirts perfect for Cairo weather and the new lifestyles...
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