For Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears donned an attention-grabbing, mostly sheer minidress. Not to be outdone was Nicki Minaj, who flaunted an equally eye-popping gown that landed the star on many a best-dressed list.
No, these gold body-hugging looks weren’t by red-carpet faves Atelier Versace or Givenchy. They were by a nearly unknown brand called LaBourjoisie, leaving fans asking: Who is that?
LaBourjoisie turns out is a local based brand run by 35 year old Lebanese designer Antoine Salameh. His shop in Shaab is dressing A-list celebrities located on the other side of the world. Just writing that sounded so weird, it’s insane. [Link]
Thanks James
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There’ve been many Kuwaiti designers who’ve been dressing up A-list celebrities lately.
A Kuwaiti designer dressed up Paris Hilton, Lady GaGa and Jennifer Lopez last year.
Here’s a clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4aur_VsTUE
found his instagram account https://instagram.com/yousef_aljasmi/
Yup. I intended on interviewing him last year.
Piven is still a wanker.
Ari Gold is a lovable wanker.
Jeremy Piven is just lovely, thank you.
Mark, the designs of La Bourjoisie’s dresses bear an eerie similarity to Youssef Al-Jasmi’s designs, don’t they?
Hmmm……well we shouldn’t be surprised, everyone tries to imitate everyone in Kuwait.
Everything’s derivative.
And seriously, how did the Kuwaiti government allow these designers to live vicariously through these A-list superstars by dressing them up in very revealing outfits?
If the celebrities were to come here wearing those Kuwaiti made outfits, they wouldn’t be able to leave the airport.
Kuwait has traditionally been a regional hub for fashion designers, so several local fashion designers have received acclaim in Western countries.
These outfits are made for the red carpet in Hollywood. Celebrities don’t wear these outfits at airports. Never seen celebrities wear such clothing in public areas, aside from the red carpet and nightclub.
They don’t wear these items per se but they do wear revealing clothes at airports.
Crop tops, shirts with a bit too much cleavage…….all of which are a definite no-no here.
So yes, it is a double standard. How can these designers be allowed to design extremely revealing outfits when crop-tops aren’t even allowed here?
So does Charbel Zoe who is a Lebanese famous designer based in Kuwait. Nicki Minaj wore his dress in the latest VMA awards which was the Carnival Queen Style dress. Shakira, Beyounce and many more wear his dresses. his Instagram account is
https://instagram.com/charbelzoecouture
Meanwhile Kuwait deports expats for wearing revealing clothes… double standards….
LOL
Kuwait did not deport expats for wearing revealing clothing. Those women were deported for prostitution and soliciting. Go read the oroginal news report in Arabic from the Arabic newspapers. Kuwait Times and Arab Times Online are not reliable sources, they’re yellow journalism.
The original Arabic news report clearly mentions that the women were deported for what they were doing (prostitutes).
Interesting!
Would be interested how both of them managed to reach these celebrities
Flip-side: Wannabe Britneys and Kardashians of Kuwait now visiting LaBourjoisie to make them look hideous. Probably another few million followers on instagram too.
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those dresses are ugly as fuck to be honest