Even as a child, Mona Al Mansouri was fascinated by fancy costumes and intricate designs. That fascination often found expression in fashion magazines in her home. Young Mona used to scan through the colourful magazines lying around in her home for photos of glamorous models in dazzling outfits. She would cut out whatever catches her fancy to add to her personal collection. The gaping holes in them was a running joke in the family. It was also an early testament to what she would become when she grows up.
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00:00The fashion is like another world, really.
00:04It's language. I feel it's language without you talk.
00:08It's culture. It is heritage for the country.
00:14I work in the field as engineering in ADMA,
00:19one part of ADNOC company, like six years.
00:24But you know, since I am young or baby, like seven years, six years,
00:29I love the material. I love the color.
00:32Even my mom, when she saw any magazine,
00:35there is some cutting in the middle like this or rounding,
00:38she say, Muna, she likes something here.
00:41And I make one album to myself to put it all what I think.
00:45I think this one, it is really my hobbies and I love it.
00:49The fashion is like another world, really.
00:53It's language. I feel it's language without you talk.
00:57It's culture. It is heritage for the country.
01:00I move for what I love.
01:02But it is not easy because, you know, before 35 years,
01:06the women in UAE is not like now.
01:09It is not like when we have even the technology,
01:14internet and social media now.
01:17It's very fast to make the people even successful.
01:21For me, you know, when I start, as everyone knows,
01:24I am the first designer in UAE.
01:27Really, my starting is very, very like a big, big mountain.
01:33And I climb, I climb, this is until I come to the top.
01:36Really, I not think in my life.
01:39I like only the design.
01:41But I never think about I will be international.
01:45I never believe I will take award from Spain or Moscow.
01:51Big trophy also from Kazakhstan, from Paris, from London.
01:56All fashion week around it.
02:00It is not easy, but it is very, very nice.
02:04And you learn, you know, every fashion week in Paris, in Spain,
02:08any country I go.
02:10Every time I learn and I all what my experience,
02:13I give for my team also.
02:15First of all, I want to say thank you
02:17for the Ministry of Tourism in Israel
02:20and the fashion week of Tel Aviv.
02:231,200 person is coming.
02:26All the ticket, it's finished.
02:28You know, the people, even if you see the video for what's happened,
02:32it's something incredible.
02:33And all the newspaper write about it.
02:35It is like historical fashion week.
02:38Not only historical for my fashion,
02:41because really I make many things creative.
02:44And everyone shocked because don't have that hot couture what I presented.
02:49But because I am the first woman and designer Arabic,
02:54not only UAE, not Gulf, Arabic,
02:57start to open the door for the peace.
03:01We need the peace through everything,
03:04through the media, through the fashion, through football.
03:08The peace can coming through the society.
03:14The peace can coming through the society.