Dubai: One of the Dubai-based models Jasmine Tookes, flaunted her bag by Dubai-based Label L’Afshar on Instagram this week, adding another celebrity fan to the cult brand’s glittering client list.
The 31-year-old model was basically a photographer in France wearing an all-black ensemble by Lebanese label Azzi and Osta while clutching L’Afshar’s Amni’s purse in a gold mirrored colourway.
This is a handmade purse; the $995 clutch is made of 24k electro-plated hardware.
Many Hollywood celebrities have worn this particular brand, including Laura Dern, Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner and Rachel Bilson.
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However, those are not the only A-listers who seem to be huge fans of the homegrown brand — actress Jasmin Sanders, Bella Hadid, Kate Upton, Alicia Keys and Chrissy Teigen have all made public impressions with L’Afshar’s arm candy on hand.
Lilian Afshar is the designer of this brand, and she is very famous for her unique, structured designs and use of marbled resin and intricate mirror work.
Lucite — known commonly as acrylic glass — and birthstones also feature in the brand’s range of typically heavy, straight-edged clutches in a range of clear-to-saturated colours and textures.
Regarding Tookes’ costume of choice, she kept things chic in a strapless mini dress by Azzi & Osta — a Beirut-based atelier founded by George Azzi and Assaad Osta.
The look was inspired by the duo’s Season 8 collection, which was inspired by 1980s glam.
This is not new that Tookes has favoured a designer from the Middle East; the model also married Snapcaht’s Juan David Borrero in his home country of Ecuador in September 2021, wearing a dress by Lebanese couturier Zuhair Murad.
Tookes’s custom wedding gown featured an illusion, lace-embroidered neckline, a fitted bodice and a voluminous skirt with a train. She wore an exquisite wedding dress with a sheer, floor-trailing veil. With its long sleeves and high mandarin neck, the gown was chic and conservative.
At this year’s Met Gala in New York, she showed off a custom-made emerald lame dress by Murad on one of the most coveted red carpets on the annual fashion calendar.
Her love for Murad’s glamorous creations is no secret. Following the designer’s Fall 2021 couture show in Paris, where she sat on the front row, she revealed that he is her “favourite designer” and she “wear(s) his dresses on almost every red carpet.”