This Gaza-Based Designer Is Creating Suiting With a Personal History

In an apartment in Gaza, a model with a septum piercing wears Meera Adnan’s ’80s-style looks: an oversized jacket with puffy sleeves and extreme-high-waist trousers with shell buttons. The Gaza-based designer typically favors easy suiting pieces that come in oversized silhouettes with a playful retro flair, usually mixing in modern styling effects, such as a Fendi bag and a Prada bucket hat. In the 27-year-old’s current look book, she captured the model with an almost on-the-go flair, with her Palestinian-Gaza passport in her hand and a bottle of Jasmine hair oil on her mantle. Here, looks are casual, like an asymmetrical cream dress with bishop sleeves and an oversized olive blazer that looks plucked from a man’s closet. “If you want to dress it up or want to dress it down, you just can mix it with anything,” she says. “For example, if you are