Deena Abdulaziz, a Saudi princess and boutique owner from Riyadh, is hitting the pavement of Fashion Weeks and blending seamlessly into the fashionable crowd. Deena isn’t just sitting in the front row to look pretty: She owns her own upscale boutique, D’NA, and stocks labels like Miu Miu, Marni, Alexander Wang and Haider Ackermann. With her own Saudi background as the daughter of an economist in Santa Barbara, a teenage Vogue addict and a Paris couture customer in her own right, Deena cuts a unique figure—a walking, talking East–West compare-contrast; a diplomatic arbiter of the nuances of cool and cultural sensitivities in at least two vastly differing cultures. Her only regret, she says, is that equally impressive women on her side of the world are not as visible.
