When I visited Harrods in London I was overwhelmed by the number of beautiful women wearing plain black abayas with multiple shopping bags in their hands. Looking like Cher from Clueless after shopping on daddies credit card, I couldn’t help but wonder why they were buying all these beautiful expensive clothes if they must wear abayas over them in public anyway. Thankfully, designers are posing this same question and answering it with a beautiful bang: John Galliano, Nina Ricci, Blumarine and Alberta Feretti have all designed couture Abayas. Ready-to-wear versions of the abaya’s will be on sale at the Saudi Arabian location of SAKS, making life a little more fashionable.

SOURCE: Cut Blog via Telegraph UK