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Arab designers dress the Venice red carpet

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DUBAI: German model Leonie Hanne wore a strapless ivory gown by Syrian designer Rami Al-Ali to the screening of “Succedera Questa Notte” at the Venice Film Festival this week, the most recent in a run of Arab labels on the Lido this year. The bodice was worked in champagne metallic thread, its fine vertical lines fanning out from a narrow waist and continuing down over the hips. Below it, the skirt fell in overlapping panels of pale blush silk, layered like petals and gathering into a short trai