Anne Marie Kirollos, the first Egyptian graduate designer from Central Saint Martins, informed by a philanthropic approach of the position of Egyptian women within the society. Anne Marie K is the 3rd generation in the Bishara Textiles Manufacturing Co. She is daughter of a well renowned Egyptian designer Marie Louis Bishara, and the granddaughter of the founder of BTM; Louis Bishara. BTM is a vertically integrated company specialized in the production of high quality textiles and ready made garments.

 

Anne Marie K explores this notion by fusing empowered feminine tailoring and elegance with once dying Egyptian traditional arts and crafts in order to reinvent women empowerment and allow a woman to feel treasured in what she wears.

The tale of the voyage down the Nile in the 1940’s has manifested the Egyptian cities and the cultures they withhold into separate looks, all of which carry beautifully crafted materials and arts that convey the Egyptian history. Reviving such arts helps break extremist social norms by offering women socially acceptable professions as well as artisans with jobs older generations once practiced. 

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