Abid’s collection of two dozen “resort wear” dresses featured flowing white and beige fabrics and only the occasional visible midriff. A second show on Friday was billed as the first to focus on women’s swimwear, an envelope-pushing development in a conservative Muslim country that less than a decade ago required women to wear body-covering abaya robes. “You may say it is boldness, but I look at it in another way: keeping pace with globalism,” Abid told AFP while surrounded by models and harried, headset-wearing show producers.
