The Los Angeles-based designer is one of several rising international stars showing at this year’s Arab Fashion Week.

When Jonathan Marc Stein flew to Dubai, he took with him five carry-on bags. Then again, he had good reason: inside those bags were no fewer than 25 different outfits the Los Angeles-based designer will be showcasing at this year’s Arab Fashion Week.

“We somehow fit it in five,” he laughs as he sits in a brightly-lit café in City Walk with plush purple sofas and jewelled light fixtures hanging overhead. “We didn’t want to risk losing anything.”

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