Dina Shaker

Dina Shaker designs in conversation with Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo — and that conversation, conducted from Cairo, produces clothes you won't see anywhere else in MENA. Deconstructed, asymmetrical, deeply textured. The work is more conceptual than the Cairo mainstream and more rooted than the conceptual mainstream.

A reminder that Egyptian design can be intellectual as easily as it can be heritage — and that the considered tier holds space for both.