Saudi Arabia held its first fashion show featuring swimsuit models on Friday, an envelope-pushing step in a country where less than a decade ago women were required to wear body-covering abaya robes.

The poolside show featuring the work of Moroccan designer Yasmina Qanzal included mostly one-piece suits in shades of red, beige and blue. Most models had exposed shoulders and some had their midriffs partially visible.

“It’s true that this country is very conservative but we tried to show elegant swimsuits which represent the Arab world,” Qanzal told AFP.

“When we came here, we understood that a swimsuit fashion show in Saudi Arabia is a historic moment, because it is the first time to have such event,” she said, adding it was “an honour” to be involved.

The show took place on the second day of the inaugural Red Sea Fashion Week at the St Regis Red Sea Resort, situated off Saudi Arabia’s western coast.

The resort is part of Red Sea Global, one of the so-called giga-projects at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 social and economic reform programme overseen by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Prince Mohammed, who became first in line to the throne in 2017, has initiated a series of dramatic social reforms in a bid to soften Saudi Arabia’s austere image stemming from its historical championing of a purist form of Islam known as Wahhabism.

Those changes have included sidelining stick-wielding religious police who used to chase men out of malls to pray, re-introducing cinemas and organising mixed-gender music festivals.

They have coincided with ramped-up repression targeting dissent, including from conservative clerics who might protest such moves.

Shouq Mohammed, a Syrian fashion influencer who attended Friday’s show, said it was not surprising given Saudi Arabia’s attempt to open up to the world and grow its fashion and tourism sectors.

The fashion industry in 2022 accounted for $12.5 billion, or 1.4 percent of national GDP, and employed 230,000 people, according to a report published last year by the official Saudi Fashion Commission.

“It’s the first time to have a swimsuit fashion show in Saudi Arabia, but why not? Seriously why not?” Mohammed said.

“It’s possible and we have it here.”

Raphael Simacourbe, a French influencer who also attended on Friday, said there was nothing risque to his eyes but in the Saudi context it was a major achievement.

“That’s very brave from them to do that today, so I am very happy to be part of it,” he said.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/05/saudi-arabia-stages-historic-swimwear-fashion-show/

The same people northern Nigeria is emulating is already preparing for a world beyond oil and gas because they are seeing how tourism is booming in Dubai and are embracing western culture.

With the way inflation is ravaging the whole world, if we don't get serious people to run this country in the coming years, the kind of mass hunger that will hit Nigeria will be unprecedented in the history of our world.

Hisbah should take note and start liberalizing their ways back home.

President Tinubu should channel any hajj/Jerusalem subsidy to Osun Osogbo festival and any other religious festivals back home to boost religious tourism in Nigeria.

Make them they there they form custodian of Islam with archaic philosophy.

Their eyes don clear small.

Ahh yehhhh. Hisbah must hear this Iran must see this At this point, only women should be allowed to attend the fashion show based on the rules set by Hisbah in Northern Nigeria.

Their mates are flexing their lives in the middle-east meanwhile, Musa and Abdullah are still busy calling everything haram in northern Nigeria.







Backward lots.

One edioot is going to throw bomb here in Nigeria because of what is happening in Saudi

Back in those days....

Northern Nigeria would have erupted in protests.

He be like say hunger don zap all man strength.

People claim the Crown Prince's mum is a Jew... the boy sabi misbehave sha. He's a no-nonsense nigga.

Any Ulama wey no respect himself (Ulamas & Monarchy ruled hand in hand for centuries) ... now, Prince MBS doesnt want to share power, you try to form equality....straight to jail.

If he hears Nigerians even grumbled about this, he will just ban us from Hajj for as many years as he wants.

Foolish Northern Nigerians were once complaining that his father, the King shook the hand of Angel Merkel, the German Chancellor. If that boy had heard .... we would have seen why & how Arabs see Blacks as lower than animals.

Monarchy is even worse than Military rule. They can order you to die for the Kingdom and you have no choice. They can wipe out your family for even hesitating or questioning.

The west is slowly infiltrating the middle east through war and impacting their way of life, while the middle east is slowly infiltrating the west using money and politics.

meanwhile we have idiot mudslimes protesting Gaza war ,why poverty ravage their ass down in the north, SMH.

End time Saudi Arabia

BERNIMOORE:
THEY WILL TELL YOU tHAT They dont Follow saudi but Muhammad, But then, they Twist our Yoruba Story that Oduduwa and our Yoruba name came from Saudi to fit their Narrative that Islam From Saudi is stronger than Our yoruba Blood ...Oliver Twist, They will Deny The Saudi's Women here Now, because Their Over-sabi is exposed ....Ask Ilorin People

All this na because we laughed at your failed Jewish recognition movement that got shredded to tatters by the Israelis
Everyone knows the attachee tribe
They call themselves Big tribe but is always whining and wailing and seeking ways to dominate smaller tribes around them because they unfortunately have a barren land that's been eaten up by gully erosion daily

Their day is not complete if them never hate on their fellow countrymen and neighbors, we call them children of hate....... They prefer everything scatter if one of them is not in the driving seat and have made it a tribal ritual to lay a curse on the land that's producing wealth for them to the extent they mock the rest of us and yell at us how they are the tribe with the highest standard of living and low poverty

Even though their frustrations is understandable, I mean I won't be happy if I were igbo that while we are still struggling to get just a VP slot , the second yorubaman to be president is there and that is following the end of a regime a yorubaman was VP.... It's painful I know but blame nobody but your leaders who the kind of politics they play.

Our Nigerian muslims are busy killing themselves while the rest of the islamic countries are moving ahead of time.

Change is constant

Meanwhile hisbah has banned male DJs from playing at female events in the north 😭😂😂😂

Difrent:


All this na because we laughed at your failed Jewish recognition movement that got shredded to tatters by the Israelis
Everyone knows the attachee tribe
They call themselves Big tribe but is always whining and wailing and seeking ways to dominate smaller tribes around them because they unfortunately have a barren land that's been eaten up by gully erosion daily

Their day is not complete if them never hate on their fellow countrymen and neighbors, we call them children of hate....... They prefer everything scatter if one of them is not in the driving seat and have made it a tribal ritual to lay a curse on the land that's producing wealth for them to the extent they mock the rest of us and yell at us how they are the tribe with the highest standard of living and low poverty

Even though their frustrations is understandable, I mean I won't be happy if I were igbo that while we are still struggling to get just a VP slot , the second yorubaman to be president is there and that is following the end of a regime a yorubaman was VP.... It's painful I know but blame nobody but your leaders who the kind of politics they play.

you this little tiny boy, you are mentally sick. You need to go back to your sick bed.
What wrong did the guy you quoted did to you ?
You are actually the hateful one here. You can't even sleep because of hate and see the kind of bile you are pouring out on a thread about swim suit.

The way am seeing it, you are already a high blood pressure patient. Very ill mannered untrained kid.

Imagine someone whose mother blesses with all sort of curses early in the morning like ' werey omo, Omo ale jatijati, oni ku re , olosi Omo, Ori re ope, Ori re oda , olori buruku , eleri bu ' etc having the temerity to call Igbos hateful. The world is indeed full of wonders

To the thread, Saudi Arabia way to go. Women are not masquerades

Next Hajj now, our stupid president to provide our money use send people go this "holyland"

WhiteIverson:
The west is slowly infiltrating the middle east through war and impacting their way of life, while the middle east is slowly infiltrating the west using money and politics.

I don’t think this has anything to do with the west.

Adaisback:
you this little tiny boy, you are mentally sick. You need to go back to your sick bed.
What wrong did the guy you quoted did to you ?
You are actually the hateful one here. You can't even sleep because of hate and see the kind of bile you are pouring out in a thread about swim suit.

The way am seeing it, you are already a high blood pressure patient. Very ill mannered untrained kid.

Imagine someone whose mother blesses with all sort of curses early in the morning like ' werey omo, Omo ale jatijati, oni ku re , olosi Omo, Ori re ope, Ori re oda ' etc having the temerity to call Igbos hateful. The world is indeed full of wonders

To the thread, Saudi Arabia way to go. Women are not masquerades

Tell him that he has to make peace with himself and that the Igbos absolutely control his life. The Igbos have presided over him and generations before him. They will continue to dominate generations after him. All he wears, appliances he uses, the equipment used to build the house that he lives, the food that he eats, his mobile phones and drugs that he takes to save his life, are sold by the same Igbo people. What can be greater than that please?

ElevationD:



Tell him that he has to make peace with himself and that the Igbos absolutely control his life. The Igbos have presided over him and generations before him. They will continue to dominate generations after him. All he wears, appliances he uses, the equipment used to build the house that he lives, the food that he eats, his mobile phones and drugs that he takes to save his life, are sold by the same Igbo people. What can be greater than that please?

he will continue to see us flourish and excel, so that he can die of hatred. The guy he quoted and turned to Igbo is actually his Yoruba brother

This kind tin don dey happen for Saudi?

SoNature:
The same people northern Nigeria is emulating is already preparing for a world beyond oil and gas because they are seeing what's happening in Dubai with tourism and are embracing western culture.

With the way inflation is ravaging the whole world, if we don't get serious people to run this country in the coming years, the kind of mass hunger that will hit Nigeria will be unprecedented in the history of our world.

Saudi Arabia has gone to the west.

Little wonder an average Northern Muslim go tell you say dem dey practice Islam pass the Saudis.

Northern Nigeria still dey 16th century Islamic calendar normally.

Tribalist I hail ona

It's hard for a blackman to progress.

As an individual Muslim, just make sure you stick to the Qur'an and Sunnah, hold am tight.

My brother or sister, na death sure pass for this life, if Allaah takes you, what is left with you are your deeds, your Islam.

Dont dull yourself o, make sure your solah is consistent, fast and also make charity and continue to improve your understanding about Islaam, genuinely.

Saudi or any Muslim Nation is not the yard stick, yard stick na Qur'an and Sunnah.

Being half naked is not a sign of progress....

SoNature:
The same people northern Nigeria is emulating is already preparing for a world beyond oil and gas because they are seeing what's happening in Dubai with tourism and are embracing western culture.

With the way inflation is ravaging the whole world, if we don't get serious people to run this country in the coming years, the kind of mass hunger that will hit Nigeria will be unprecedented in the history of our world.

Black people subconsciously feel very inferior to other races and that is the truth but they open they mouth waaaa trying to consciously deny it.
If not your hatred for the Northerners, why why are comparing their culture to that of Saudi?
Must they drop their culture totally in order to look like the Saudi?

Arewa Twitter never react?

Our copy cat brothers in the north should take note

TOXIC....

Like this I won't mind a vacation in Saudi,they are really evolving with the current tides