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Originally Posted by susan alicia
re her haute couture passion:she is one of the 25 (or so) women from middle eastern countries who keep the haute couture houses from closing and in this way secures the employment of some very gifted craftmen and women and they are able to teach the young their crafts so that it is not lost.
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Women in Middle Eastern countries aren't the only ones who wear designer clothes. If Rania and these 25 (or so) women stopped wearing designer clothes the gifted craftsmen and craftswomen wouldn't be out of work and their talents wouldn't be lost in the least.
And frankly, to keep 25 (or so) Middle Eastern women well dressed isn't sufficient reason in my books for the rest of their country's citizens to be living in poverty or degradation. The majority of the women in Jordan probably couldn't afford one bead on one of Rania's purses. And if they were given the option of one of her Hermes scarves or feeding their family for a month, I think the choice would be obvious.
Rania's outlandish spending on her clothes and accessories and keeping herself looking pretty don't justify keeping some craftspeople in business. The ends don't justifty the means. And perhaps if some of the money Rania spent on clothes and purses were put back into Jordan then these craftspeople would have other means of work and wouldn't have to make their living sewing beads onto Chanel gowns.