With 450+ pages and five iconic covers featuring Esaad Younes, Haya Abdulsalam, and Middle Eastern models on the rise, Vogue Arabia’s September 2023 issue celebrates high fashion and fairy tale.
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Vogue Arabia’s coveted September issue pays homage to fashion and fairy tale, in an ode to the more fun and optimistic side of the FW23/24 season. With five covers photographed in three different cities – Paris, Cairo, and Dubai – this is one of Vogue Arabia’s most daring productions. Inspired by nostalgic fairy tales, the covers feature a wealth of talented women from the region, styled as never seen before. In Paris’s Euro Disney, three new faces from the runway, Myriem Boukadida, Aouatif Saadi, and Farnoush Hamidian, are dressed in spectacular couture, illustrating the rising influence of Middle Eastern models, while also signaling the impact of Arabia in the global fashion scene. Although for the last 60 years models across the Middle East have been muses to maestros such as Azzedine Alaïa and Jean Paul Gaultier, the region’s modeling industry is just beginning to blossom. “At Vogue Arabia, we are proud of being enablers of the careers of future Middle Eastern supermodels, while also creating a healthy ecosystem for stylists, photographers, designers, and other industry professionals,” says editor-in-chief Manuel Arnaut. “Witnessing the success of this September cover stars, but also of other names such as the Hadid sisters, Nora Attal, Imaan Hammam, Malika El Maslouhi (all also previously featured in our covers), is extremely fulfilling.”
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Vogue Arabia’s voyage continues to the Land of the Pharaohs, where we also photographed for our cover Arabia’s queen of comedy, Esaad Younes. Looking regal while wearing a bejeweled headpiece, the beloved icon talks “accidental” careers, patriotism, and positive self-image at any age. “Why do I always say that I’m the most beautiful…
