How Emirati Mona Al Mansouri became an iconic fashion designer

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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.

00:15I work in the field of engineering in ADMA,

00:20one part of ADNOC company, like six years.

00:24But you know, since I am young or baby,

00:28I like to do everything by hand.

00:32I didn't have any experience.

00:35But now I have, so I am very happy.

00:38I like to be a fashion designer.

00:41I love to follow the trend.

00:44I also like to be a fashion designer.

00:48I like to be a fashion designer.

00:51I also like to be a designer.

00:54I love to be a designer.

00:56you talk. It's culture. It is heritage for the country. I move for what I love, but it

01:03is not easy because, you know, before 35 years, the women in UAE is not like now. It is not

01:10like when we have even the technology internet and social media now. It's very fast to make

01:18the people even successful. For me, you know, when I start, as everyone knows, I am the

01:24first designer in UAE. Really, my starting is very, very like a big, big mountain, and

01:33I climb, I climb. This is until I come to the top. Really, I don't think in my life.

01:39I like only the design, but I never think about I will be international. I never believe

01:47I will take award from Spain or Moscow, a big trophy also from Kazakhstan, from Paris,

01:55from London, all fashion week around it. It is not easy, but it is very, very nice, and

02:04you learn, you know, every fashion week in Paris, in Spain, any country I go. Every time

02:10I learn and I all what my experience, I give for my team also. First of all, I want to

02:15say thank you for the Ministry of Tourism in Israel and the fashion week of Tel Aviv.

02:231,200 person is coming. All the ticket, it's finished. You know, the people, even if you

02:29see the video for what's happened, it's something incredible, and all the newspaper write about

02:34it. It is like historical fashion week, not only historical for my fashion, because really

02:41I make many things creative, and everyone shocked because don't have that hot couture

02:46what I presented, but because I am the first woman and designer Arabic, not only UAE, not

02:55Gulf, Arabic, start to open the door for the peace. We need the peace through everything,

03:04through the media, through the fashion, through football, the peace can coming through the

03:09society.