Mohammed Aqra, the American Dubai-based entrepreneur, is broadly thought to be probably the most influential determine within the methods across the enterprise of vogue and its collaborations with trade giants.
The under-30 younger genius strategist who’s charming the media and the inventive world has managed to reshuffle industries and overwrite guidelines. What goes round in his thoughts might be a online game of breaking the foundations, attaining milestones, and modifying genes to breed new variations of alliances and types.
In January 2021, Aqra grew to become one of many founding members of the first-ever Males’s Arab Style Week, which made a major hit globally as quickly because it acquired launched for the primary time within the historical past of the Arab World. Aqra, on the middle of all of the motion, is an important participant within the vogue trade. He acquired appointed because the Chief Technique Officer of the Arab Style Council at 25, making him one of many youngest to occupy such an vital position for a global authority. His position on the Arab Style Council contains drawing with the board the short-term and long-term methods to fulfill the council’s mission of shaping the style trade within the Arab area by creating the inventive financial system sector within the 22 Arabic international locations.
Igniting the partnership between the Federation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, the French physique that coordinates Paris Style Week, and the Arab Style Council hosts an unique showroom & presentation on the official Paris Style Week calendar the place the Arab designers’ are capable of join with worldwide consumers and media.
A major a part of Aqra’s technique is constructing international collaborations between vogue manufacturers and multinationals. The younger strategist has proven muscle tissues in with the ability to create an impactful narrative round every facet throughout numerous industries. Discovering synergies between totally different and incompatible industries is a puzzle that Aqra enjoys fixing — implying massive-scale model collaborations with giants reminiscent of Microsoft, Mattel, Nikon, META, Epson, BIC, Xbox, DHL, Aramex, Schwarzkopf Skilled, and Etihad Airways.
It’s exhausting to guess who’s subsequent in line, however definitely, the sky is the restrict in his world of no limits.
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