In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Dior Lady Art, the Maison invites ten visionary artists from around the world to reinterpret one of its most timeless icons: the Lady Dior. Among them, Alymamah Rashed, the Kuwaiti artist known for her deeply symbolic and surrealist explorations of womanhood, identity, and the natural world, brings a distinct Middle Eastern voice to this global dialogue between heritage and contemporary art.
Born in Kuwait, Rashed’s practice bridges the personal and the universal, often using her own body as a vessel for exploring social change, spirituality, and the evolving landscape of womanhood in her region. For her collaboration with Dior, she turns her gaze toward Failaka Island, a site rich in natural beauty and archaeological heritage, transforming its textures and history into poetic design. The artist translates the island’s layered environment, its sands, stones, and barnacle-covered shores, into intricate embroideries that adorn the first of her two creations. This mini Lady Dior evokes the organic tactility of the coast, its reliefs extending into sculpted eyelets that mirror the ebb and flow of the sea.
Her second design, a medium-format Lady Dior, celebrates the Humaith flower, a native Kuwaiti bloom whose soft resilience becomes a metaphor for life and renewal. Fabric petals printed in three dimensions are edged delicately with pearls, creating a sense of fragility and strength intertwined. Each bag carries an enamel eye, a motif of watchfulness and inner reflection, and a hidden poem inscribed inside the lining, visible only to the owner, reinforcing the intimacy of creation.
