Fashion Your Seatbelt

100 Shahd AlShehail on Abadia, Saudi Fashion, and Going Global

I still remember one of the first times I saw an Abadia design up close. It was at that inaugural 100 Saudi Brands exhibition in Riyadh. It stopped me in my tracks. That'

099 Alice Temperley: The Woman Who Made Bohemian Luxury a British Institution With Temperley London

What first impressed me about the fashion designer Alice Temperly was how assured she felt. When she enters a space, instantly, there is a sense that this is a woman who

098: Ameni Esseibi: The First Curvy Model of the Arab World on Breaking Beauty Standards in Fashion

Ameni Esseibi is someone who has spent years challenging the fashion industry to make room for her — and won. She is the first plus-size Arab model, a body positivity adv

097 Chriselle Lim: From OG Fashion Influencer to Building a Global Brand with Phlur Fragrances

Chriselle Lim is many things at once: a pioneer of digital fashion storytelling, a serial entrepreneur, and a woman who has built a career by evolving in the public eye w

096 Nadine Kanso: Reclaiming Arab Identity Through Calligraphy and Fine Jewellery

Nadine Kanso is a pillar of Dubai's creative community. Born in Beirut, the Lebanese designer has called the city home since the year 2000. And over the past quarter cent

095 Farnoush Hamidian: The Model Who Is Redefining The Industry

Model and poet Farnoush Hamidian has that unquantifiable something, what the French call je ne sais quoi, that only fashion’s most iconic muses possess. All eyes turn tow

094 Alexis Mabille: Fashion’s Debonair Couture Designer

The debonair Alexis Mabille is a renowned French designer known for his innovative work in both fashion and interior design. Born into a big family, he learned early from

093 Stéphane Rolland: The Designer Whose Heart Beats for Haute Couture

There are fashion designers, and then there are couturiers – those rare artists who understand how to sculpt emotion from fabric or create drama from a single silhouette.

092 Mariam Yeya: The Fabulous Force Behind Mrs. Keepa

There’s a certain kind of designer who doesn’t just make clothes – she builds a world. Mariam Yeya, the French-Egyptian force behind the fashion label Mrs. Keepa, does ex

091 Mohammed Aqra: The Strategist Uplifting Designers in the Middle East

There are visionaries who predict the future — and then there are those who quietly build it. Mohammed Aqra belongs to the latter. As the Chief Strategy Officer of the Ar

090 Nicolas Santi-Weil: The Fashion CEO Who Leads With His Heart

In this episode Nicolas Santi-Weil, the CEO of AMI Paris, discusses what it takes to build a global multimillion dollar independent fashion brand today, how Asia helped s

089 Burc Akyol: The Designer You Need to Know

In the latest episode of the Fashion Your Seatbelt podcast, up and coming fashion designer Burc Akyol shares his unfiltered views on the fashion industry, his nascent sig

088 Charlotte Chesnais: The Cool Girls Jewelry Designer

In this episode, I speak with Charlotte Chesnais, a woman who has spent a decade creating jewelry coveted by cool girls around the world. This year, she is celebrating th

087 Dima Ayad: The Dubai Designer Changing the Shape of Luxury

Designer Dima Ayad is rewriting the conversation around Arab fashion, inclusivity, and the power of creative resilience. Born in Lebanon but raised in Dubai, she grew up

086 Laure Guilbault: France’s Die Hard Fashion Journalist

In this episode, I sit down with Laure Guilbault, the Paris Correspondent for Vogue Business. Laure is a diehard fashion journalist. She worked at WWD for five years, bec

085 Lucien Pagès: The Man Shaping the Stories of Fashion

In this episode, I sit down with Lucien Pagès, one of the fashion world’s most accomplished storytellers and the founder of the eponymous Lucien Pagès Communication, a pr

084 Charaf Tajer: Takes Fashion Global With His Casablanca Brand

In just seven short years, Charaf Tajer, the founder and creative director of the brand Casablanca, has proven that the fashion world has room for a multitude of sartoria

083 Guillaume Delacroix: Fashion's Badass Brand Strategist

Guillaume Delacroix is a luxury brand whisperer. His entire career, from his early days working at Karla Otto and KCD to his time at Giorgio Armani and Balenciaga, to his

082 Suzy Menkes: Fashion's Greatest Critic

I don’t think I have ever been as nervous about interviewing someone in my entire career as I was when my former boss and colleague Suzy Menkes agreed to speak with me fo

081 Alexandra Van Houtte: The CEO who is galvanizing the fashion industry

From the moment Alexandra Van Houtte first told me about her newly launched platform in 2016, describing it as Google for fashion, I knew she was onto something. Since th