Who says you can't have fun in couture?

Who says you can't have fun in couture? Meryem Agadi, AWSIM Team driver, rocking Kenza Idrissi Couture

shirts, tunics and jellabas!!!

Black Tunic with white majdoul

Cotton sleeveless shirt 

Black shirt with white, red and black collar

Printed Cotton shirt 

Black tunics with majdoul

Printed cotton shirts 

Printed cotton jellabas 

AWSIM Team interviews, dressed in "Kenza Idrissi Couture"

AWSIM team in Kenza Idrissi Couture

Two childhood friends (Jihane and Meryem) embark on an incredible adventure in support of SOS village. A percentage of  Kenza Idrissi Couture sales will go towards their cause. For more information please visit  <http://www.lesgazellesawsims.com>

Meryem in a red hand beaded gandoura (silk and silk muslin)

Jihane in a blue hand beaded gandoura (silk and silk muslin)

Jihane in a coral gandoura (silk and silk muslin, lightly beaded collar)

Meryem in a 3 color gandoura (silk and silk muslin, lightly beaded collar)

Jihane in a white and gold gandoura ("tlija" and silk)

Meryem in a beige silk dress and a gold brocade and silk jacket

Jihane in stripped silk overalls

Meryem in  blue silk overalls 

               

Meryem in a short bright pink gandoura (silk and silk muslin)

Jihane in a short purple gandoura (silk and silk muslin)

Designs: Kenza Idrissi Couture 

Accessories: Cristian Lay Maroc Adil Lamnini 

Make up: Nidale Lekrari 

Photographer: Youness Fizazi 

Ambiance: Amal Agadi

Location: Villa Mandarine Rabat

Vintage heaven

I went to Thailand for the first time last May. I absolutely fell in love with all the little vintage stores in Bangkok. They have such talented designers. I wish I had limitless luggage to buy EVERYTHING. Next time, I am definitely going back with an empty suitcase.

Chatuchak Market where I wanted to buy everything

I bought this dress from Chatuchak Market. I love it!!! 

Well, it says it all!!!

SOS Village Morocco

SOS village d'enfants Maroc is an association that offers a great deal of support to children through education, healthcare and other services. They help mothers who are unable to care for their children and provide safe homes and a family structure to abandoned children and orphans. Please check out their website for more details: http://www.sos-maroc.org/

And I had a feeling that I belonged.... And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone....

I have been back to Morocco for 4 years now. So much has happened. I worked as a professor (teaching international business to a bunch of college sophomores), interned at IOM (International Organization for Migration), worked at MVC (my brother's gym), managed a nightclub, got married, moved to Marrakech and started my fashion line. 4 years feels like a lifetime and it's funny that I still feel like an outsider in my own country. 

I'm not sure what it is. As an "RAS" (Rabat American School) graduate, we seem to think that the American system was the best and worst thing that ever happened to us. My mother calls us the sect and I am starting to agree with her. We are so alienated from the rest of Moroccan society, we seem awkward and borderline crazy to outsiders. RAS was a blessing because I have kept so many amazing friendships and we have values and principles that I see disappearing more and more from other systems (french and moroccan schools). We are unique and special but at the same time, we do not fit in anywhere else but our little RAS circle. We only feel in our element when surrounded by our English speaking kind. 

I look at the rest of the world (and the world I am referring to here is my world in Morocco) and I feel so different from all of them. I love my country with all my heart. I just don't really fit in it. I'm a little piece of a missing puzzle trying to find her way in an unfamiliar territory. 

The closest I get to a sense of belonging is during my photoshoots, when my pieces are complete after days and weeks of designing, of going back and forth to check the details, of making sure my vision became concrete. When I see my designs on a model and then on pictures, they become real, they become alive, I become alive. Then I have a feeling that I belong and a feeling that I could be someone....  

Special Thanks to: 

Photographer: Majdouline Hasnaoui 

Models: Danielle Gonzalez and Olga Kalinina 

Scenery: Zayneb Ghaouti 

El Corte Ingles Marbella. How exciting!!!!!

Kenza Idrissi Couture displaying at El Corte Ingles Marbella starting today! Stop by if you're near.