SR-500-banknotes dress wows young designers

Saudi fashion designer Rania Ghamrawi has made a display dress using SR 500 banknotes worth SR 1 million, or about $ 266,000. The dress was wowed by a number of young designers.
Ghamrawi said she made the dress by stitching a large amount of currency paper of SR 500 category together in order to form a evening dress. She said that through designing the dress she sought to create an innovative idea to celebrate the National Day.
She added her design which comprises of Saudi currency is a traditional dress represented the heritage identity of the Kingdom in a trendy modern way; rather than the traditional costume of green or traditional headdress (shemagh).
Ghamrawi said the idea of the dress came within her gradate project to design cocktail dresses from unwornable materials, pointing out that she designed two contrasting designs: A low value dress made of black garbage-bags while the second embodied with crystals beads and Saudi banknotes of SR 500.
She said that the approximate value of the dress reached up to SR 1 million, through the money that is studded over the fabric, in addition to the crystal beads sewed on the chest, and the interlining and lining fabrics of the dress. Studding the money on the fabric took almost three weeks.