Shahira Lasheen

Shahira Lasheen is a name kept among Cairo's stylists more than in the press: a designer's designer, sought out by the people who dress others for a living. Her women's ready-to-wear works in a considered register, cut for a wardrobe rather than a single evening and made to be returned to, season after season.

It is quiet work that earns its standing in the fitting room rather than the front row, the kind a practiced eye recognizes in the way a garment falls.