.Last evening’s Fashion Rely on Arabia (FTA) Honors at El Badi Royal Residence in Marrakech were much more significant to style Imaan Hammam than a normal sector activity. “I have actually been excited about joining this year’s FTA Awards considering that the location was actually exposed,” she says to Style. “I understood I would like to possess a special engagement since Morocco is my home.” That she carried out, supplying the celebration’s opening remarks.Though Hammam was birthed as well as brought up in Amsterdam, her mother is from Morocco, and also Hammam has actually frequented the nation throughout her life.
“My earliest mind of Marrakech is actually of my mama, my grandmother, as well as I walking through the souks and also acquiring shed,” she points out. “It is actually still one of my preferred traits to accomplish when I am actually back.” She also creates it a suggest enjoy her preferred local dish, tanjia with lemon maintain. (” It’s cooked in clay-based container placed underground,” she allotments.) This excursion, she added a heavy performs of fashion trend and also beauty to her plan.
“The very first thing that came to mind was actually to wear an authentic caftan,” Hammam says of preparing her FTA look. “I communicated to my close friend Badr as well as started brainstorming. Our company wished to do a memorial to the royal household, exclusively referencing Lalla Meryem.
Her looks have actually been therefore motivational to me, showcasing a mix of practice as well as modernity.” Hammam turned to Selma Benomar for a custom-made black caftan highlighting Moroccan craftsmanship and also style. Hairstylist Hos Hounkpatin, in the meantime, offered Hammam a ’90s supermodel-esque bob with a present day twist, with make-up musician Nadia Tayeh applying dark eyeliner and also gold emphases on her skin. The look, Hammam mentions, is one she’s consistently intended to gather for a celebration– she was actually merely waiting for the right minute.
“Being actually home in Morocco for the FTA was the absolute most suitable opportunity.” Ahead, Hammam shows Trend how she invested the time in Marrakech– from meeting FTA Awards nominees as well as sitting in the glam seat to taking the stage at the ceremony.