Rami Al Ali

Rami Al Ali is a relatively young Syrian designer who works in Dubai now.
He's a graduate of College of Fine Arts ( i guess somewhere in Syria?) who worked in Beirut and Syria prior to moving to Dubai in 2001.

Mr. Al Ali established his business in 2001, opened his own fashion house in local version of Beverly Hills and started showing in local fashion shows first.

Next came shows in Milan and Rome and now he's a celebrated - and rightly so - high-profile designer.

Here is his collection for 2009, which i like quite a lot. It's called Damascus Rose and influenced by Syrian traditional designs. I think it's very-very pretty and original.

His 2010 collection doesn't really float my boat, but hey, diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, right?

He also does ever popular and rather inventive wedding dresses:

Pix are from www.ramialali.com