Actress Amina Khalil Walks for Azza Fahmy on Egypt’s North Coast

For most of the year, Azza Fahmy’s jewellery encounters Cairo one wrist, neck or finger at a time. In August, like much of the city, it went north.

At Ramla in Ras El Hekma, the Egyptian jewellery house built an evening around the proposition that its pieces could hold a runway on their own. Amina Khalil walked at the centre of it, wearing part of a summer selection assembled by Head Designer Amina Ghali, while Marco Maccapani, the Italian director whose work moves between fashion and large-scale events, directed the show.The pieces carried the familiar Azza Fahmy vocabulary - silver and gold worked with references to Egyptian history and craft - but there was little of the museum vitrine about the exercise. They were piled onto bodies, sent into motion and subjected to the considerably less controlled conditions of an August night beside the Mediterranean.This was Azza Fahmy and MARAKEZ’s second summer together at Ramla, although the evening eventually abandoned the runway altogether. Palestinian-Jordanian chef Qais Malhas cooked the meal that followed, and the crowd migrated to the tables. Fashion has invented many elaborate ways of gathering people in one place; dinner remains the one nobody has improved upon.