Palestinian clothing brands: five designers and where their pieces are made

The Aisha scarf from Nöl Collective is 195 centimetres of wool with a landscape embroidered across it by hand. Um Mussa and her team cut, sew and embroider it in Bethlehem.

Nöl Collective, founded by Yasmeen Mjalli in Ramallah, works with women's cooperatives, family sewing workshops and individual artisans from the hills around Jerusalem to Bethlehem and Gaza. Embroiderers in Naqoura and Deir Jreer do the tatreez. A weavers' cooperative in as-Samou, in the al-Khalil region, takes about ten days to weave a single bag. The tailor Ibrahim Mourad runs the Bethlehem workshop that sews the clothes, and Mohammad dyes cloth with plants, insects and roots in the city's old quarter. The Aisha scarf, in sumac, is $228. The Tara poncho is organic wool, crocheted by Auntie Ola on the outskirts of Jerusalem over three to four days, one size, $498. Nöl ships to the US and Europe by FedEx express.

• Aisha embroidered wool scarf (sumac), Nöl Collective, USD 228
• hand-crocheted Tara poncho (tahini), Nöl Collective, USD 498

Shukri Lawrence founded Trashy Clothing in East Jerusalem in 2017, and he and Omar Braika share its creative direction. The label calls itself a Palestinian ready-to-wear label and an "anti-luxury luxury fashion label". "It came from a missing Palestinian voice in mainstream pop culture," Lawrence told The National in 2020. The studio is now in Amman, and on 7 March 2026 the label showed its first Paris collection, In Divine Trust, at the Institut du Monde Arabe. The Identity hoodie is oversized heavyweight fleece with a kangaroo pocket, about $200. The Bahhar top is long-sleeved heather-beige jersey, cut long and curved so it gathers at the torso, about $160.

• Identity Hoodie, Trashy Clothing, USD 200
• Bahhar Beige Buttoned Top, Trashy Clothing, USD 160

Meera Albaba founded Meera Adnan. "I currently reside and operate from Gaza City," she told Cosmopolitan Middle East in 2020, when she launched the label after seven years of planning. The clothes take their mood from family photographs of the 1980s, and the debut collection, Migration, drew on tatreez. Current pieces are made and embroidered by hand in Jordan. The Tear Dropz blouse is silk satin made from orange fibre, with oversized bell sleeves couched in gold thread, about $356. Several pieces are on pre-order and ship in three to four weeks.

Nafsika Skourti describes herself as a Greek Palestinian designer. She studied womenswear and textiles at Central Saint Martins, worked at Marchesa in New York and trained in couture embroidery at the École Lesage in Paris, then founded Nafsika Skourti with her sister Stephanie in Amman in 2014. Since 2017 the label has worked with Syrian refugee artisans, now a team of ten. Her grey pinstripe wide-leg trousers, $380, carry a print of olive branches and the words حُبِّي فِلَسْطِين, my love Palestine, across the back.

Reemami ships from its headquarters in Sharjah. Its founder, Reema, works from her Palestinian-Emirati heritage, and the latest collections draw on her visits to Gaza. The Ghazal Al Banat shirt is silk with a resort collar, printed with tins of olive oil, about $490. Through For The Gaza We Love, run with Dubai Cares, the label donates part of its sales.

— The editors