
Fashion Forward Dubai 2016
Fashion Forward
Fashion Forward Dubai is a three-day fashion event in its seventh run. This year it showcased 28 runway shows, talks and presentations! It is the ultimate fashion platform for Dubai and the Middle East that helps provide a platform and a progressive direction for fashion in the region.
FFWD takes place semiannually, each April and October, at Hai d3 in Dubai Design District. This industry focused event centers around supporting design talent in the Middle East. It was really interesting to see such a wide variety of fashion and style at Fashion Forward. We have featured 20 of the designers and our favourite looks from these stunning Fall Winter 2016 Ready to Wear Collections.
Hussein Bazaza
Hussein Bazaza is a super talented Lebanese designer. His history includes working for the likes of Elie Saab, before launching his own ready-to-wear collection in 2012. He was able to do so with the help of the Starch Foundation (more on Starch Foundation below). Bazaza’s Fall/Winter Ready to Wear 2016 collection did not disappoint. It was bursting with bold prints and geometric shapes. Pops of red and purple, metallics and copper lamé, dominated the colour scheme. Esoteric and abstract images were splashed across the garments. It truly was a phenomenal way to start off Fashion Forward Dubai.
This is a young designer to watch!
Kristina Fidelskaya
Kristina Fidelskaya had a gorgeous Fall Winter 2016 Ready to Wear Collection, with elegant coats and dresses with form-fitting bodices. Gray and pastel pink dominated the collection in addition to statement dresses in both black and white.
Starch Foundation
Starch Foundation is a non-profit organisation that helps launch Lebanese emerging designers. Perverse Label, Azzam Salim and Bashar Assaf are three of the designers that Starch Foundation selected to debut their collections at Fashion Forward Dubai 2016.
/Pər’vərs/
/Pər’vərs/ all-black, unisex, aseasonal collection was cool and sporty, with nice mesh detailing on the jackets.
Salim Azzam
Simple white cotton and hand-embroidered designs and illustrations dominated Salim Azzam’s Ready-to-Wear Fall Winter 2016 collection, thus echoing the village’s voice in the fashion world.
Bashar Assaf
Simple, chic and effortlessly elephant, Bashar Assaf’s Fall Winter 2016 collection featured slick silhouettes and a nude/purple color palette for him and for her.
Amato Couture
Soltana
Soltana had a glamorous Fall Winter Ready to Wear 2016 collection. Fabulous sequinned and velvet party dresses, structured jackets with to-die-for shoulder details, and enviable sexy blazer dresses were seen as label staples. For a more casual look, we enjoyed the presence of funky jeans that were given that extra luxury factor using silk and sequins. As for the detailing, models were donned in gelled back ponytails and eye-grabbing gorgeous tasseled, bedazzled sandals. The collection was designed for the elegant and luxurious Middle Eastern woman.
Sotra
Salta
Salta is a Kazakhstani brand and their Fall Winter Ready to Wear 2016 collection drew inspiration from Tibet. The show truly was an army of fashion. The clothes were oversized, the block colours combined shiny golds and blacks with crisp whites. Throughout the collection the looks had a consistent statement of strength. As for the details, the Kill Bill style hats and gold ankle cowboy boots brought the outfits together. The makeup by Mac, was bold emulating Tibetan people, while the hair was ethnically braided. The models were adorned in fabulous necklaces of big round balls strung together. Pure, powerful, cool.
three fifty nine
Lama Jouni
Dee by Dalia
Nasiba Hafiz
Taller Marmo
Bint Thani
Mira Hayek
Bouguessa
Army of 1
Kage
ORKALIA
Orkalia is a Dubai based brand and their Fall Winter Ready to Wear 2016 collection was full of bold pieces. Every outfit had a block colour, ranging from electric blue to nude. The focus was on the details from daring cuts to gorgeous embroidery.
All together a fabulous weekend for Middle Eastern fashion at Fashion Forward.
Enjoy!
Lots of love
Sara & Tamara xx
Modeling school Dubai
Modeling school Dubai, Model Coach and fashion show trainer.
Learn how to walk the runway like a fashion model and learn how to pose in front of the camera.
http://www.fashionshowteam.com