Interviews

Hessa Al-Suwaidi: Designing Modest Fashion for a World Audience

When Hessa Al-Suwaidi shows her collections, the garments move the way water does — with an unhurried deliberateness that seems to resist the frantic pace of the fashion calendar. There is something deliberate about her fabrics, her silhouettes, her insistence on construction over decoration. It has made her one of the Gulf's most celebrated designers and one of its most misunderstood.