Allison Williams and Alexander Dreymon made their red carpet debut as a couple after dating for three years.
04.12.2022 - 15:51 / deadline.com
Saudi Arabia’s emerging fashion design labels have been making their red carpet world premiere over the past few days at the Red Sea International Film Festival, running December 1-10 in the port city of Jeddah.
A raft of regional and international celebrity guests has been hitting gala red carpets in local creations, alongside other stars in outfits by long-established luxury brands, in an initiative spearheaded by the country’s fledgeling Fashion Commission.
The campaign comes just three years after the country relaxed ultra-strict dress codes stipulating that women had to wear an abaya and cover their hair in public, as part of reforms to open up society and diversify the economy away from a reliance on oil revenues.
The push to promote Saudi Arabia’s emerging fashion labels on the Red Sea’s red carpet is the brainchild of Burak Cakmak, CEO of the country’s new Fashion Commission, which was among 11 bodies created by the Ministry of Culture in 2021 to kickstart the cultural sector.
Cakmak, whose resumé includes stints at luxury groups Kering and Swarovski, arrived in the role from New York’s Parsons School Of Design, where he was Dean of Fashion between 2015 to 2020, with a mandate to build a fashion industry in the country from scratch.
At the Red Sea’s glitzy opening night ceremony, guest of honor Guy Richie’s wife Jacqui Ainsley wore a fitted cream gown designed by Dazluq.
The Miami-based label was created by Saudi Arabian designer Salma Zahran in 2016 and is now in the process of entering Saudi Arabia’s emerging fashion market.
Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosini put in an appearance swathed in a body-hugging electric blue outfit from Jeddah-born designer Yousef Akbar, who studied fashion in Australia and then
Allison Williams and Alexander Dreymon made their red carpet debut as a couple after dating for three years.
Iraqi filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji picked up the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film at the Red Sea Film Festival with his debut feature Hanging Gardens.
Saudi Arabia’s Cultural Development Fund is poised to launch a new $233m ($879m Saudi Riyal) film industry financing program in the first quarter of 2023, which will be open to both local and international entities.
Jackie Chan made a rare on-stage appearance at the Red Sea Film Festival Thursday, where he told fans that he is currently in talks to make a fourth Rush Hour movie.
Antonio Banderas’s latest film, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, screened at the Red Sea Film Festival this week, and the actor told the festival audience that he believes his animated feline is likely to return to the big screen in a fifth Shrek movie.
An unwieldy crowd rushed the stage and frequently broke out in song as Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor discussed his life and career during one of the final ‘In Conversation’ sessions at the Red Sea Film Festival Wednesday.
Writer and stand-up comedian Mo Amer was the latest Hollywood name to pass through Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea film festival Wednesday where he discussed his varied career as part of the festival’s ‘In Conversation’ series and the potential of a second season of his well-received Netflix comedy Mo.
Director, screenwriter and producer Fatih Akin passed through the Red Sea film festival Monday where he discussed his career and what he described as the unique experience of straddling Turkish and German culture in his films.
It was two days after director Adil El Arbi’s wedding in Morocco when he and his co-director Bilall Fallah got the call that their recently wrapped $70M film Batgirl would be shelved as part of a cost-saving move for Warner Bros Discovery under David Zaslav’s new regime.
All eyes are on Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning film industry as the second edition of its Red Sea International Film Festival continues to unfold this week in the port city of Jeddah, running from December 1 to 10.
Saudi Arabia’s Film AlUla, the film agency of the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), has announced the start of construction of the first phase of its new ambitious studio complex.
As Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival kicks into gear in Jeddah, a parallel film program is underway 300 miles north in the small desert town of AlUla.
wore a sheer eggplant gown over a matching slip and black lace pumps while opted for a white suit over a grey turtleneck and black boots. Though Pattinson kept his hair artfully disheveled, Waterhouse styled her blonde hair in loose waves and curtain bangs, topping off her look with a bold red lip.Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson attend the Dior Fall 2023 Menswear Show in Giza, Egypt.Despite being linked romantically , Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse have largely kept their romance away from the press, aside from a here and there.
Andrew Dominik shared his thoughts on the unexpected backlash against his Marylin Monroe drama Blonde during an In-Conversation event at the Red Sea International Film Festival on Sunday.
walked the red carpet for the Women in Cinema event at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dressed in head-to-toe red, Hale wore a pant set with cutouts down the arms and legs with sweet bow details.
Bollywood megastar Akshay Kumar revealed that he is making a feature on the theme of sex education that he hopes to release next spring during an In-Conversation event at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival on Saturday.