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“Here in Toronto, all I could find was skater trunks or board shorts. And they all looked the same.”
So she decided to do something about it. Her line of masculine, slightly retro looking swimsuits for men was launched this year.
While she acknowledges that men in Toronto play it safe and practical when it comes to their swimwear: “They just throw on anything to go to Wasaga Beach because it’s all about beers and barbeques.”
Rami Kadi, in his ready-to-wear line titled “Gypsy,” created a provocative sheer maxi with an asymmetrical hem in very transparent, textured gauze. A number of Kadi’s couture dresses hanging in his Clemenceau boutique featured a full skirt in translucent or transparent fabrics.
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“The human being is very greedy, politically speaking, socially speaking, in everything,” Khoury said. “In this collection, I decided to express that by doing an oversized volume in all the garments.”
This dramatic maxi skirt offers an option for the ladies too shy for the fully see-through maxi skirts of Azzi & Osta, Kadi and RONALD.
Sinno said the maxi skirt, even in its transparent interpretation, hasn’t caught on among Lebanese women. The maxi trend hasn’t fully made its way to the street in Lebanon because of the general preference for tight, sexy clothes, she said.
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