How do you think living in Bahrain, London, Paris and New York has helped shape your design aesthetic?
How do you think living in Bahrain, London, Paris and New York has helped shape your design aesthetic?
I think that all of these past experiences shape you and you're not aware that you're being shaped, especially because when the most crucial moments of your life are happening, you're completely unaware of how that will affect you later on in life. I can see now that it's a cultural training of the eye. You take things from different moments of your life. In the Middle East, it's the vibrant colors that I was exposed to. From London, it's very coincidental that I ended up growing up in the heart of the land of tailoring, and then my first-ever job was at a tailoring house. Living in Paris, it just taught you about craft and sophistication and a level of quality that you don't see elsewhere. It's just all these things that are subliminally in the back of your mind, and then they come forward when you start to design things, and it's etched into you.
