On a late summer day of September, the whole Sakina Paris team had the pleasure of greeting Lebanese fashion blogger Paola Elsitt to Paris and doing a photoshoot with her in the most iconic pieces of the collection, and we entitled the series Paris Mon Amour. I love Paola’s excitement whenever she is in Paris and her capacity to enroll any personality for an editorial! We set up the photoshoot in the Royal Monceau hotel where she had a beautiful suite. The atmosphere was pure magic : modernity with a touch of typical French refinement. Look 1 is a fur coat from our upcoming ready-to-wear collection, that we wanted to show in exclusivity. The fitted structure of the coat gives an instant glow

For the 74th edition of the Mostra of Venice, I had the pleasure to follow up with some great adventures with actress Hafsia Herzi at the festival. Previously, we did Cannes Film Festival together, where her Sakina Paris custom made dress was nominated 9th best dress of the red carpet by ELLE France! And it is always such an honour to collaborate on new red carpet projects with her. For this new occasion, Hafsia Herzi was presenting the movie Mektoub, My Love : Cuanto Uno by Abdellatif Kechiche, among the official selection of movies under competition. We imagined a baby-doll look for this time. For a series of interviews during the festival, she wore our Sakina Paris custom-made dress made

For the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival, I had the pleasure to dress French actress Audrey Giacomini for the screening of her short movie Aria by Myrsini Aristidou. For Audrey Giacomini, I picked up the Poppy dress from my Haute Couture collection “Une Forêt d’Automne”. It is a silk chiffon pleated dress with a flowing structure and a puffy poppy flower at the front, hand-made in silk organza. Audrey has the beauty of an Asian woman, and the elegance of a French lady, so this style was perfect on her. When she first came to my atelier last month with her manager Maëlle Venin, I instantly loved her. I got really touched by her sweetness and gentle manners, and her sense of humour. We