Naya El Ahdab

Neuroblastome

Based on her personal experience and journey as a disabled woman sitting 24/7 in a wheelchair, designer Naya El Ahdab traces the path to acceptance and confidence in our bodies. She explores deformity and its relationship with femininity and comfort, focusing on the idea that a body and its story can sculpt a garment and vice versa. She also highlights the differences and transformations of a garment in contact with a deformed silhouette. She transforms this contact into beauty by working on proportions,shapes and clean lines, taking references from couturier Madame Grès and carefully draping her fabrics to achieve symmetry.

Project selection motivation

Can fashion contribute to the creation of a Borderless world, where people and all living beings live as one? Can fashion be a bridge where we most need it? This quest beats at the core of Naya El Ahdab exploration, a journey which enables her dresses to speak to people who are usually excluded from the standard discourse of fashion. Naya El Ahdab’s work is a stark reminder of what the role of a fashion designer should be, and of the magic power of a dress to positively influence habits and habitats for best of society.

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