A special guest of Lviv Fashion Week, designer Rabia ben Barka (Libya), presented a collection in Afro-Arabic style. The overall image of the collection bears a characteristic hallmark of Libian traditions. This is a mixture of Islamic, African and desert influences. Rabia ben Barka offers both men and women mostly wide, loose clothes, stratification of fabrics and elements, complex embroidered ornaments, scarves and mantles used as hats and heavy silver jewellery. The collection makes use of expensive fabrics, embroidered with silver and gilding, and a variety of colours. North African traditions, in particular, pattern, are combined with Western cuts and forms. The show of Rabia ben Barka, which crowned the final day of Lviv Fashion Week, impressed with its exoticism and positive effect.

Photo: Aleksandr Shamov