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How Maryam Mary Maher is building the blueprint for women in Gulf esports
Long before the Red Bull badge, the G2 jersey, or the Fortnite clip that introduced her to an audience far beyond Bahrain, Maryam Mary Maher was a child on her grandmother’s living room floor, fighting her cousin Ayoob for the controller and refusing to lose at PES. That early hunger, sharpened over years of practice […] The post How Maryam Mary Maher is bui
Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Balenciaga couture debut reimagines the house with softness & volume
Pierpaolo Piccioli’s debut couture collection for Balenciaga arrived at Paris Haute Couture Week as one of the most anticipated shows of the season, the culmination of a year spent studying the house’s archive since his departure from Valentino. Gigi Hadid’s return to the couture runway after a four-year absence gave the presentation an additional charge, […
Elie Saab dissolves the boundary between the real and the fantasty at Haute Couture Week
Elie Saab’s Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2026-2027 collection unfolded at Paris Haute Couture Week as an invitation into The Ball of Untamed Dreams, a realm built on enigmatic glamour where the codes of couture blurred deliberately between what is real and what belongs to fantasy. The house’s signature vocabulary, that instinct for opulence rendered with precis
Zuhair Murad’s Autumn 2026 couture collection presents a heroine who refuses to surrender
For his Autumn 2026 Couture collection, Zuhair Murad built a world around a heroine who has refused to surrender, a woman who remains standing amid collapse, powerful and unbroken, protective of what she loves and magnificent in the way she carries herself through ruin. She holds within her enough magic to destroy everything in her […] The post Zuhair Murad’
Manish Malhotra’s Paris Haute Couture debut honors his late mother with ‘Maa’
Manish Malhotra made his Paris Haute Couture Week debut with Maa, a collection dedicated to his late mother, whom he lost just three months before the show, the designer describing in his notes how her passing had transformed memory into reflection and reflection into creation. Divided into four chapters, each tracing a different period of […] The post Manis