New Kid On The Block

Time to introduce to you some new regional talent. Heeeere's Mohamad Khadra.

Khadra is originally Lebanese with an Omani nationality. In 1998 he was granted a full scholarship by the United World College headed by Nelson Mandela and Queen Noor of Jordan to obtain his IB in Hong Kong, where he started his investigation into art, design and performing arts. In 2000 he pursued his performing arts education in Saint Louis University in Madrid, where he worked as a set designer and Flamenco dancer.

His intense interest in cult and design lead him to his current career as a fashion designer and stylist, where he obtained his commercial fashion design and styling B-A at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute in the Netherlands from 2003-2005.

During his 3-year stay in Amsterdam: Mohamad worked as a textile designer at Oromono company based in Amsterdam, was awarded a fashion honours program where he researched current trends in Milan and Paris, and won best textile design by the Prato Textile Museum in Prato in Italy.

Recently he was spotted in a reality TV show on Future TV in Beirut called Project Fashion, making it to the final stages of the show, where he was acknowledged 2nd best Arab designer 2006.

End of 2006 he became part of The French Fashion University ESMOD Dubai, where he conducted master courses for graduate students on Trend forecasting and Fashion media communication.

Mohamad launched his own brand MOK in Dubai and Beirut, featuring spring-summer 2007 shoes and bags collection, a spring-summer 08 clothing line & accessories collection for men and women showed at the International Dubai fashion Week, and most recently a 08-09-winter collection at the International Abu Dhabi Fashion Week. Have a look at his latest Spring/Summer 2009 creations...

Mohamad Khadra's spring 09 collection, will be featured at both Abu Dhabi and Beirut. For any inquires, please send an e-mail to MOKfashion@gmail.com.