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Originally Posted by ChristinaRizkallah
That's interesting that you were going to be a vendor for her. Sounds like you already sold a lot of her costumes. I agree with what you said. It would be difficult to agree to that structure that Sherif set up. There's no guarantee that you would be able to sell them all here in the USA. Her costumes are expensive and if you dance in dirty/stinky nightclubs and restaurants, I can see why as a dancer you wouldn't want to buy them. I think some of the night clubs in Egypt are even more dirty and stinky because they still smoke indoors and lots of them smoke! (I'm thinking of this as comparision to California where you cannot smoke indoors anymore in restaurants). That's cool that you tried to be a vendor. They may get another vendor. I guess until then we would just get them from her directly. You are right about the price, I am really paying for the "look" cuz I know other designers aren't doing it and when other designers try to copy her, they just can't pull it off as well as she, the spider and butterfly costumes being really good examples.
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Yeah, I was a little sad at first. I offered to do it because I really believed in her style and wanted to bring them here. I knew going in that it would really be a challenge because I knew many dancers would say basically what everyone has been saying about them. I thought they'd have to be introduced with a really hot website and great pics to get dancers interested even though they were minamalist. It's a tough costume market out there, but i thought once they took off, dancers would go crazy for them. I tried, but it wasn't meant to be.
I'm sure some of the smaller clubs are kinda stinky, but Dina has always danced at the big hotels and I saw Hanadi when I was there, and all she wore was Sahar. She was dancing on one of the Hotel Nile cruises on a pretty nice sized stage. In New York most of the nicer places don't have a stage. It's all dancing between stages. Only one, called Lafayette Grill has an actual performance space for the dancer. I usually only wear mine when I dance there....