Fridge brings back-to-back music events to Riyadh

The Fridge Concert Series KSA Season 1 continues with Hamza Hawsawi headlining an intimate live show. (Supplied)
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Updated 09 February 2026
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Fridge brings back-to-back music events to Riyadh

DUBAI: The Fridge is set to bring two live music events to Riyadh’s JAX District this February, spotlighting both emerging and established Saudi talent at Personage.

The program begins with The Fridge Open Mic on Feb. 12, a free event designed as a platform for Riyadh’s rising musicians. Performers will take the stage to share original material in front of a supportive audience, whether testing new songs or presenting polished sets. The initiative offers artists the chance to perform in a professional live setting, something still relatively rare for early-stage musicians in the city. Doors open at 7pm, with performances running from 8pm to 10.30pm.

The following night, Feb. 13, The Fridge Concert Series KSA Season 1 continues with Hamza Hawsawi headlining an intimate live show. One of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent R&B voices, Hawsawi has spent more than 15 years shaping a sound that blends soul, pop and R&B. Hawsawi has amassed more than 33 million global views and collaborated with international and regional artists including Future, Cool n Dre, Music Travel Love, Talal Salama and Qusai. His track “Million Miles” was selected as the official Rally Dakar anthem and has surpassed 5.3 million views on YouTube.

Opening the night is Sarah Chefai, whose genre-spanning live performances move between jazz, pop, blues and indie. She has appeared at major events across the Kingdom, including the Formula 1 gala, the Red Sea Film Festival and Noor Riyadh.

Doors open at 8pm, with the show starting at 9pm. Tickets start from SR80 ($21) and capacity is limited.
 


Bella Hadid leaves Paris for Los Angeles launch event

Updated 11 March 2026
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Bella Hadid leaves Paris for Los Angeles launch event

DUBAI: Supermodel Bella Hadid jetted from Paris to Los Angeles this week to launch her latest campaign with US fashion retailer Revolve.

The Palestinian US Dutch model was on hand in France earlier in the week, where she hit the runway at the Saint Laurent show during Paris Fashion Week.

She then flew across to Los Angeles to launch a campaign with Los Angeles-founded retailer Revolve, which was set up in 2003 by Michael Mente and Mike Karanikolas.

Hadid fronts a campaign launching the e-commerce department store’s first-ever in-house brand, Revolve Los Angeles.

“Born from a deep understanding of the modern woman and inspired by the city where it all began, our eponymous fashion house is a new expression of effortless glamor,” the new fashion label posted on Instagram alongside black-and-white images of Hadid in a selection of looks.

Prior to her trip to Los Angeles, the model showed off French label Saint Laurent’s latest collection in Paris.

Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello, marking his own 10th anniversary at the helm, sent out a parade of razor-sharp Smokings — the house term for its iconic women’s tuxedo — with plunging necklines and elongated silhouettes that crackled with the same transgressive energy founder Yves Saint Laurent unleashed in the 1960s, the Associated Press reported.

But Vaccarello didn’t stop at evening wear.

He extended the same sensual, body-skimming tailoring into daytime suits in fluid pinstripe fabrics with almost no interlining, effectively arguing that the tuxedo silhouette belongs in a woman’s life around the clock.

Plenty of brands in Milan showed strong black pantsuits this season, but the Saint Laurent version still occupies its own territory — sleeker, sharper, more loaded with meaning.

The other half of Vaccarello’s equation was lace, stiffened with latex and tailored into structured cardigan-like jackets and straight skirts.

It was lace with backbone — tough, not delicate.

Paired with smoky eyes, chunky gold jewelry and slingback heels, the collection made a case that Saint Laurent’s codes are as potent as ever.