The Six: Fashion highlights from the El Gouna Film Festival
Stars took to the red carpet in beautiful looks
Read on for a round up of our six favorite looks from the glamorous event
Updated 24 September 2018
Arab News
DUBAI: Stars from across the world have been posing for the cameras on the red carpet at the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt. Here, we round up our six favorite looks from the glamorous event.
Elisa Sednaoui
The Egyptian Italian model and actress dressed in a custom-made Arwa Al-Banawi teal velvet dress on the red carpet for the premier of “Weldi” at the festival.
Patrick Dempsey
American actor Patrick Dempsey wore a dapper tux as he arrived for the screening of “The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair” at the festival.
Arwa Gouda
The Egyptian actress posed on the red carpet at the premiere of Egyptian film “Yomeddine” in a gold-and-black Miriam Nazmy Design dress.
Saba Mubarak
The Jordanian actress walked the red carpet in a fitted Zeina Nabulsi dress. With a sweetheart neckline and intricate detailing, it was definitely an eye-catcher.
Dorra Zarrouk
The Tunisian actress posed on the red carpet in a bright emerald green dress from unmatchedonline for the premiere of “Yomeddine” at the festival.
Shahira Fahmy
The Egyptian actress looked gorgeous in an Elie Saab suit for the premiere of “Yomeddine” at the festival. With natural curls and minimal make-up, the suit spoke for itself.
DUBAI/PARIS: Rising fashion stars from across the world hit the runway at designer Matthieu Blazy’s latest show for Chanel.
Staged during Paris Fashion Week, the likes of Mona Tougaard and Bhavitha Mandava, who in 2025 made headlines as the first Indian model to open a show for Chanel, walked the runway.
For the show Tougaard, who has Danish, Turkish, Somali and Ethiopian ancestry, showed off a patchwork look with cutouts across the bodice. For her part, Mandava showed off a series of casual options, including knitwear.
For the show Tougaard, who has Danish, Turkish, Somali and Ethiopian ancestry, showed off a patchwork look with cutouts across the bodice. (Getty Images)
Six months into his tenure at the Parisian stalwart, Blazy staged his second ready-to-wear collection at Paris Fashion Week Monday, where brightly colored cranes rose from a holographic floor — a deliberate signal that the construction is ongoing.
The audience inside the Grand Palais suggested the foundations are solid: Margot Robbie, Oprah, Jennie, Kylie Minogue, Lily-Rose Depp, Teyana Taylor and Olivia Dean all turned up.
Blazy took his cue from a quote from Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel: “We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly.”
The collection was structured around that tension — plain against spectacular, function against fantasy — with a discipline his sprawling debut last October sometimes lacked.
The opening looks were austere by design.
Black knit zip-ups, tweed blousons and boxy overshirts arrived with little more than four gold buttons to signal they belonged to Chanel.
In the vast runway space, they could read as underwhelming. But Blazy’s point was architectural: the suit, he said, is “the first brick” — and everything else rises from it.
The collection’s most provocative move was its silhouette.
Blazy pulled waistlines dramatically low — belts slung to mid-thigh, pleated skirts starting where blazers ended.
The references were retro flapper filtered through a modern lens: drop-waisted twinsets, patchwork dresses with floral embroidery, vivid patterned knits with a twenties pulse.
A furry coat in bold geometric color could have been worn in a chic part of London's Camden.Whether the ultra-low waistlines will land with the well-heeled clients who pack Chanel’s front rows is another question.
Selling a radically new proportion to women with deep loyalty to the house is a different challenge than winning critical praise. The final stretch answered that concern with force. Sequined plaid suits arrived in dazzling color.
