Saudi model Amira Al-Zuhair attends LVMH Prize’s cocktail party in Paris

Al-Zuhair opted for a black set with cut-out detailing at the waist. (Getty Images)
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Updated 03 March 2023
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Saudi model Amira Al-Zuhair attends LVMH Prize’s cocktail party in Paris

DUBAI: Saudi model Amira Al-Zuhair recently attended LVMH Prize’s cocktail party, held during Paris Fashion Week.

The star-studded gathering supported the 2023 LVMH Prize — an annual award that rewards young fashion designers, selected for their talent, with a large financial endowment and mentorship by the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy organization.

For the event, Al-Zuhair opted for a black set with cut-out detailing at the waist. The rising star accessorized her look with black fingerless gloves, matching heels, and a red purse for a pop of color.




The rising star accessorized her look with black fingerless gloves, matching heels, and a red purse for a pop of color. (Getty Images)

The event was also attended by hijab-wearing model Ikram Abdi, who also chose to wear black. She donned a velvet floor-length dress.

US Italian actress Julia Fox, “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner, and British TV presenter Alexa Chung were also in attendance.

Fox wore a stone-washed denim dress with thigh-high slits on the sides, and brown combat boots, while Turner donned a black blazer with matching leather trousers.

Arab models have had a busy month grazing runways for fashion weeks in London, Milan, New York, and now in Paris.




Loli Bahia walked for the Givenchy show wearing a pearl-white floor-length dress. (Getty Images)

French Algerian model Loli Bahia has been hopping from one show to another. She walked for the Givenchy show on Thursday wearing a pearl-white floor-length dress, with long sleeves, covered in beads to the waist.

She also modeled for French fashion designer Isabel Marant. For that show, she wore a daring cut-out mini dress, which she paired with embellished black tights.

For the Marant runway, Bahia was joined by Dutch Moroccan Egyptian model Imaan Hammam who turned heads in a black zip-up dress. She walked down the runway with her signature voluminous curly hair, black boots, and a purse.

Earlier in the week, Al-Zuhair hit the runway at Milan Fashion Week, showing off an all-black look for luxury Italian label Dolce and Gabbana.

She was dressed in an expertly cut blazer dress, complete with a black rosette on the lapel. The chic, masculine-inspired look boasted a black tie, black tights and pointed pumps with a thin strap at the ankle.


Elie Saab stages show at Paris Fashion Week

Updated 08 March 2026
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Elie Saab stages show at Paris Fashion Week

DUBAI/ PARIS: Lebanese designer Elie Saab showcased his latest collection at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday, as part of a packed schedule of international luxury labels.

The designer’s Fall/Winter 2026-2027 collection was inspired by New York with billowing ballgowns printed with Central Park-themed florals and more fitted, business chic looks seen on the runway.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The “Elie Saab woman immerses herself in the 90s New York art scene. Intellectual and seductive, her look embraces downtown power tailoring and uptown florals with a twist,” the fashion house said in its show notes.

The showcase was held on the same day as the likes of Hermes, Vivienne Westwood and Balenciaga, among other labels.

In a Paris Fashion Week that still has Chanel and Louis Vuitton to come, Hermes made a case that luxury at its most persuasive doesn’t shout.

Models emerged from luminous circular openings in the walls, like figures stepping through a full moon, and walked a raised, winding catwalk above vegetation.

It was theatrical, but never gimmicky.

The set did exactly what creative director Nadege Vanhee wanted: it knocked you off balance.

Vanhee, who has led Hermes womenswear since 2014, titled the fall-winter collection “Entre chien et loup” — the French expression for dusk, that uneasy moment when you can’t tell a dog from a wolf.

Her show notes invoked Hecate, the torch-wielding goddess of darkness, though the clothes were less mythological than muscular — precise, body-conscious, built to move.

Leather dominated. Fluid overcoats with enormous Tuscan sheepskin collars.

Zip-front mini dresses in inky blue that opened to reveal contrasting shirts beneath.

An orange ostrich-leather jumpsuit, belted at the waist, that merged biker attitude with Hermes refinement.

Paris Fashion Week is delivering a forceful reminder of why it remains a capital of fashion, with blockbuster celebrity front rows, boundary-pushing design, and collections that are tackling big ideas about power, craft and the female body.

Oprah Winfrey turned heads at both Stella McCartney and Chloé. Sissy Spacek, Julia Garner and Lil Yachty claimed front-row seats at Loewe.