Saudi Arabia hosts its first Arab Fashion Week
Women attend the opening ceremony of Arab Fashion Week at Ritz Carlton Hotel, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 10, 2018. AFP/Fayez Nureldine RIYADH : Jean Paul Gaultier and Roberto Cavalli are in Saudi Arabia — headlining the kingdom's first-ever Arab Fashion Week, an event that opened Tuesday to equal parts excitement and controversy. Two weeks later than initially planned, the Saudi Arabian edition of Arab Fashion Week joins designers from Europe and the Arab world over the course of four days — including the kingdom's own Arwa Banawi, whose The Suitable Woman line is adored by fashionistas across the region, and Mashael Alrajhi, the eponymous gender-inclusive label of a rarely-seen Saudi sheikha. Princess Noura Bint Faisal Al-Saud — the honorary president of the Arab Fashion Council in Riyadh — joined designers, influencers, and industry insiders from Ukraine to Lebanon for the inaugural season of fashion week at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, the hotel now infamous as the holding p...