High fashion designer
"When I create clothes, I think of all women but each one has her own
style," says high fashion designer Najia Abadi. Born in Casablanca in a traditional family, her father refused to let her
dress "as her friends do"
and wanted her to study medicine. When she was
pretty young, she met her future husband, "a wonderful man with whom I got
married", she says. With him,
she discovered freedom. Together, they decided to leave Morocco to settle in
Paris: "He let me choose the studies I wanted to follow. Today, I am separated from the father of my two children but he remains my
great love”, confides Najia Abadi. Since the
time when she used to make clothes for her dolls, her passion for fashion has
not weakened and has even been strengthened. The fashion
designer could speak for hours about her job: "I love passionately what I
do, I like to mix beautiful materials, lace from Calais, muslin, taffeta,
duchesse satin..." Her collections, often glamorous, reveal each time different
universes. In 2005,
Najia Abadi created and presided over the Federation of Moroccan couture to
structure the industry. She is also
the founding president of Fashion Week Morocco and in 2009 she launched Fashion
Days Morocco. She
participates on a regular basis in cultural weeks abroad or in catwalks parades
for the benefit of associations. In 2016, she
created a collection around the theme of Egyptian classical songs as part of a
charity evening whose profits allowed the purchase of bicycles for girls. She also provided dresses for movie stars during the Marrakech
International Film Festival. Today, she
develops numerous international projects where her collections are always of
great interest.