Text: Dariga Masenova SECRET OF ELEGANCE - EASY. SO SAID THE PRINCESS OF SAUDI ARABIA, DINA ABDULAZIZ, ABLE TO COMBINE WESTERN PROGRESSIVE FASHION AND EASTERN CONTENT. FULL OF ADVANTAGES, BEAUTIFUL AND SUCCESSFUL, SHE IS A BRIGHT EXAMPLE OF A WOMAN WITH A PERFECT TASTE.
Dina's husband (she has been married since she was sixteen years old) is the prince of Saudi Arabia Abdulaziz bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz al-Saud. For a long time, the royal couple lived in the Upper West Side in New York, but in 2004 moved to Riyadh. Dina loves the Arabian desert - here is her home, her family. She has three children: a daughter and two twin sons.
The page of the princess on Instagram is saturated with nostalgia for the 90th, interspersed with shots of fashion shows from the first row, the best shots of Linda Evangelista and singer Shade, as well as her favorite shots from the movie. Almost every similar post refers to the history of show business through the hashtags # fashion101, # film101 or # music101. Among Dina's favorites are the films "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Eyes of Laura Mars" and "All About Eve." But in addition to Hollywood muses, there are rare pictures of Dinah’s favorite actresses from childhood: Madhi Yusra and Amal Al-Atrash, as well as the first Arab supermodel Farida Helfa.
Today, Dean is easily ranked as a progressive fashionista. Ultra-short boyish haircut - a real cultural manifesto in the Middle East. In addition, this tall, slender brunette is a close friend and favorite of street style designers and photographers. The owner of two D'NA boutiques (one in Riyadh and the other in Doha), she is always an honored guest at the forefront of the key shows of Fashion Weeks, which allows her to be one of the most influential buyers in the Middle East. Her style combines the attributes of the traditions of East and West. Possessing an excellent innate taste, Dina brilliantly knows how to combine things.
Among her regular purchases are the exclusive collections of Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, Juan Carlos Obando, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Rosie Assoulin, Haider Ackerman, Acne Studios, Marni, Eddie Borgo, Delfina Delettrez, ADEAM. In addition, the princess was one of the first to support regional designers: dresses by Dina Khalifé, Wadha Al Hajri, Reem Al Kanhal, inspired by natural motifs of Nathalie Trad clutches in orderly rows are displayed on shelves for customers of the D'NA club.
Probably, the princess herself is the best model showing the latest images that will be in trend next season. She surprisingly manages to bring things of novice designers to the country of conservative views and create demand for them. She was one of the first buyers of Jason Wu's debut collection and the first to order a collection of Nepalese designer Prabal Gurung in 2009.
Having moved from Manhattan to the Arabian desert, Dina retained a progressive view of the fashion that the region so desires. She does not try to emancipate women and fight for equal rights with men, but she breaks stereotypes about a disenfranchised Arab woman with her active life position and activity. She herself earns a living and instills a taste for local girls, skillfully adapting Western ideas about style to strict Eastern traditions.
For example, specially for the Middle East, Dina asked the American designer Diana von Furstenberg to sew an elongated version of her iconic dresses with a smell - to the floor. Dina Abdulaziz herself is always elegant. A perfect cut of clothes, light make-up and a stylish haircut, coupled with her favorite rings from a friend of Dolphin Delletrez, Fendi’s heiress, and tons of gold bracelets make her an absolute fashionista.
She adores fluffy skirts to the ankles, culottes, coats and is almost never seen in something overly open or defiant. Dina believes that the more a woman is closed, the more elegant she is. The princess does not accept miniskirts and shorts, considering them the antipodes of style. Her favorite designers - Altuzarra, Miu Miu, Giambattista Valli, Moncler, Jason Wu, Sonia Rykiel, Chloé, Vera Wang - perhaps share the opinion of an honorable buyer.
From shoes, princess al-Saud prefers classics. She wears boats or feminine sandals and thin-heeled ankle boots in summer, while in winter she prefers high boots on a stable platform. Christian Louboutin himself even named a pair of shoes in her honor: "Deena". Despite the “western” choice of clothing, Dina can be seen in the likeness of a hijab - and not only at home. Only a year ago, among the fashion elite, during the show of the Chanel cruise collection in Dubai, she appeared in a traditional Arabic image, and her head was covered with a white chiffon sheila (Arabian headdress).
