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Where Syria Meets The Catwalk: Rami Al Ali’s Inspiring Couture

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The Syrian designer Rami Al Ali designs beautiful clothes for the extremely wealthy—but his inspiration and memories remain with his war-torn homeland.

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When the Syrian designer Rami Al Ali thinks of his homeland, he imagines the river than runs through the village that he grew up in, and the bustle of Damascus from his student days studying fashion.

The contrast inspires his collections to this day, he said, in the midst of a...

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