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HUWA A NEW JEWELRY LINE BY MOK FOR MEN

Name                                 Huwa

Nature                               Fashion Performance with English and Arabic texts, dance, projection, live Oud and singing.

Synopsis                            A woman reveals through her music box a lost memory of a man she never found. Her quest for love awakens him, only to discover that men say much more in dark.

Performance Themes         The architectural body
                                            The battle of sex
                                            The woman unveiled
                                            The noble skull

Director                               Moe Khadra

Venue                                  Al Madina Theatre

Date                                    Wednesday 30th of November 2011 

Time                                    20h30

Length                                45 minutes 

Reservation Policy             First come, first serve

Price of the Tickets           N/A – Free Admission

Moe Khadra, the Lebanese fashion designer, will be revealing his new jewelry line for men entitled “Huwa”, through a fashion performance.

“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in power. In form and moving, how expressive and desirable he is. In action, how like a warrior, in apprehension, how like a lover. That is the man we fail to seek and I long to be.”

Following his October 2009 theatre defile “Hippocampus”, and March 2011 fashion installation “Nine Queens”, “Huwa” performance is the tale behind this new collection of MOK.

Five performers will represent the diverse aspects of men through various texts, songs, music and choreographies. The show tackles the battle of both identity and gender.

“Huwa” consists of 25 handcrafted pieces in silver and gold, and includes ultra‐wide range of silk rope and leather bands, as well as pendants and rings. The collection is based on the architecture of the body of the man, featuring straight lines and geometric shapes. Morse code is engraved on iconic pieces that reflect MOK’s enduring fascination with geometric beauty. Other jewels are 19th century‐inspired pendants and rings, and are built upon past images.

MOK describes his work as a “personal investigation towards underground love, death, and quest”. With “Huwa”, he continues that search by using architectural influences to create pieces that men can live in with comfort, glamour, and seduction.

Performers                           Hans Harling
                                             Kaliou Kadri
                                             Pierre Khadra
                                             Rami Eid
                                             Zeina Farhat   

Vocals and Oud                   Rami Najem

Collection Photography      Nour El Khazen

Zeina Farhat Dressed By    Mok s/s 2012

Co‐Stylist                             Khaled El Mirr

Make‐Up                              Fady Kataya

Light Design                       Moe Khadra

Animation Design               Fadi Baki

Poster Design                     Marwan Aoun

Display Design                   Rodney Design


To view the collection online, please visit www.mokmeonline.com

Moe Khadra is a Lebanese fashion designer, born in Beirut in 1981, and brought up in the Sultanate of Oman.

In 1998, he was granted a full scholarship by the United World College1 to obtain his IB in Hong Kong, where he started his investigation into art, design and performing arts. During his two‐year stay in Hong Kong, he taught theatre and poetry in Chinese public schools, and organized theatrical social services in Bombay with the street children.

In 2000, he pursued his performing arts education in Saint Louis University in Madrid, where he worked as a set designer and Flamenco dancer.

In 2001, Moe was offered a job by Future TV in Beirut as TV presenter, scriptwriter, and researcher for live and recorded TV shows on lifestyle, arts and culture.
His intense interest in culture and design lead him to his current career as a fashion designer and stylist, where he studied his commercial fashion design and styling at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute in the Netherlands from 2003 to 2006.

During his 3‐year stay in Amsterdam, Moe worked as designer at Oromono Company. He was awarded a fashion honors program, where he researched current trends in Milan and Paris, and won innovative textile design by the Prato Textile Museum in Italy.
He was spotted in a reality TV show on Future TV in Beirut called “Project Fashion”, making it to the final stages of the show, where he was acknowledged 2nd best Arab designer for 2006.

Towards the end of 2006, he became part of The French Fashion University ESMOD Dubai, where he conducted master courses for graduate students on Trend forecasting and Fashion media communication, in addition to obtaining the ESMOD fashion Design BA.
Moe launched his brand MOK in Dubai and Beirut. The brand features Spring‐Summer 2007 shoes and bags collection, Spring‐Summer 2008 clothing line & accessories collection for men and women (showcased at the International Dubai fashion Week) and 2008‐2009 Winter collection (International Abu Dhabi Fashion Week). He has also collaborated with famous designer Nada Debs, incorporating MOK’s prints into Debs floating stool chairs.

In August 2009, Moe launches miniMOK, the first conceptual brand for little girls from 4 to 14 years old.
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan has been President of the United World Colleges since 1995. Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been the honorary president of the UWC since 1999.

MOK Biography

In October 2009, “MOK for Fady Kataya” is MOK’s latest joint venture project, the first to be introduced in the Middle East that consists of a limited edition line inspired by Kataya’s new make‐up trend and echoed through MOK’s fashion interpretations.

MOK has been showcasing at the Prêt‐à‐Porter Paris exhibition since Summer 2010.

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