All Abaya

The most worked piece in the collection. Antique gold embroidery runs the full length of both front panels, turns at the hem slit, and repeats...

Deep chocolate, matte, and completely undecorated except at the cuffs — where a scatter of small stones sits in a loose band, thicker at the...

Bronze rather than brown, with a faint mottling through the weave that catches warm light and goes almost black in shade. The only decoration is...

A print rather than an embroidery, which makes it the easiest piece here to wear in daylight. Blown roses in dusty pink sit across a...

Black on black, and the beadwork does all of it. Fine sprays run up both sleeves and across the chest, set close to the fabric...

The most worked piece here. Cobalt blue leaves and vines run up the sleeves and across the lower body — not scattered, but following a...

Black with a blush lapel, blush cuffs and a blush placket running down the inside — so the colour only shows where the abaya opens...

Olive instead of black, which is the first thing you notice, and a pleated panel running down the front, which is the second. The pleats...

Cut like a coat rather than a robe — a notched lapel, a double row of dark buttons, cuffs that turn back. Worn open it...

The one with nothing on it, and the hardest to get right. With no embroidery to look at, everything rests on the cut — the...