15 stars who wore Middle Eastern designers on the 2022 Oscars red carpets

Venus Williams, Mila Kunis and Molly Sims are among the stars who wore gowns by Middle Eastern designers at the 94th Academy Awards.

Williams wore a low-cut white gown with silver detailing by Elie Saab, and Sims was seen in a deep red gown by the designer. Meanwhile, Kunis wore a rose, satin draped gown by fellow Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad.

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Molly Sims wears a vibrant red Elie Saab design for the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, 2022. EPA

Over at the Elton John Aids Foundation Oscar Party, Lea Michele stood out in a green Zuhair Murad gown, and Heidi Klum wore an Elie Saab mini dress, accessorised with a feather boa.

There was also plenty of attention on regional designers at the Vanity Fair after-party.

Kate Beckinsale wore a sheer Zuhair Murad piece, model Joan Smalls looked striking in a feather and jewelled Elie Saab, and model Lori Harvey wore an ornate gown by Tony Ward. Kelly Rowland arrived wearing a sheer mermaid signature dress in black latex and tulle by Jean-Louis Sabaji.

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Internationally, this year, the likes of Tiffany Haddish, Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o and Amelia Warner glittered on the red carpet in sequinned dresses. Both Haddish and Nyong'o wore Prada designs, while Chastain wore two-tone Gucci, and Warner sparkled in golden Giambattista Valli.

Rapper Megan Thee Stallion wore a blue gown by Indian designer Gaurav Gupta.

See all of the best dressed stars on the Academy Awards red carpet here:

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2^nd ODI, Friday, April 12

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UAE squad: Mohammed Naveed (captain), Rohan Mustafa, Ashfaq Ahmed, Shaiman Anwar, Mohammed Usman, CP Rizwan, Chirag Suri, Mohammed Boota, Ghulam Shabber, Sultan Ahmed, Imran Haider, Amir Hayat, Zahoor Khan, Qadeer Ahmed

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1. Christopher Froome (GBR/Sky) 68hr 18min 36sec,

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Conflict, drought, famine

Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.

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Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
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