ANISSA AIDA

Raised in Paris and Tunisia, designer Anissa Meddeb creates clothing and accessories inspired by Tunisia’s heritage. She explores traditional garments worn in North Africa and the Levant, and looks further east to sartorial traditions of China, Japan and Korea. The Parsons School of Design graduate interned for Marc Jacobs Accessories and avant-garde fashion collective ThreeAsFour before launching her own label in 2016. Designed in New York and produced in Tunisia, Meddeb’s looks invoke classic Arab silhouettes with an architectural edge. Dubbed “one to watch” by Fashion Scout London, she has shown at fashion weeks in Paris, London and Berlin. She was recently selected as a FIT Design Entrepreneur at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and won the Open My Med Prize of Maison Mode Méditerranée in Marseille, France.

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