Among the Saint Laurent gowns and Gianni Versace minis that Bella Hadid wore to the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, one look stood apart: a Michael & Hushi dress, patchworked from traditional keffiyeh scarves. The model at the time described the outfit as a tribute to designers who have championed the Palestinian cause, drawing attention to the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza. “While I still have to go to work, even through this horror, to wear our culture makes me a proud Palestinian,” she said. “I want the world to continue to see Palestine, wherever we go.”
Hadid today continued in that mission, wearing a knitted halter-neck by Palestinian designer Reema Al Banna, founder of Reem Ami, illustrated with hand-drawn sketches depicting Tatreez embroideries, a horse and cart and a tin of olive oil – all familiar motifs in Palestinian culture – while promoting her latest Orebella fragrance, Eternal Roots, on Instagram. “[It’s] a reminder that Eternal Roots isn’t just a name, it’s a way of living” she said. “It’s about protecting the threads that tie us to our families, our heritage, our truth. It’s standing by the causes that matter, even when they’re not easy to speak about.” To wit: it was just last week that Bella’s sister, Alana Hadid, attended Nicklas Skovgaard’s spring/summer 2026 show at Copenhagen Fashion Week in a custom Mailliw dress cut from the symbolic keffiyeh textile.
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Bella and Alana’s father, Mohamed, was born in Nazareth in 1948, six months after the State of Israel was declared by Jewish leaders in Palestine. Few in their industries – and fewer still with their reach – have spoken as openly about the brutal treatment of those Palestinians still living in the region. It is refreshing, too, to see fashion, which is so often written off as trite and superficial, being used as a vehicle to amplify Palestinian rights. “Palestine for me is the fullness of my heart,” Hadid said in British Vogue’s May 2025 issue. “We are people on the Earth and we are obviously for the rest of our lives going to strive for peace.”
Bella’s sister Alana Hadid carrying a keffiyeh at Copenhagen Fashion Week.
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