Bosaina El Kahhal
THE FASHION STUDIO (TFS)
Style as System: Education, Industry, and Editorial Infrastructure
Between 2012 and 2022, Bosaina designed and led The Fashion Studio—Egypt’s first dedicated styling school, image lab, and talent incubator. At a time when styling held little cultural capital within Egypt’s creative economy, TFS seeded what would later become an entire aesthetic ecosystem: from education and editorial pipelines to campaign direction, talent mentorship, and garment design.
Structured around a curriculum that fused critical theory with immersive media practice, The Fashion Studio was not a course—it was a cultural engine. Merging styling, aesthetic systems, retail psychology, and cinematic composition, the Studio developed Egypt’s first applied fashion education platform to fluidly navigate editorial, commercial, and narrative formats.
Origins & Immersive Foundations
The Studio’s DNA was shaped by Bosaina’s global exposure to image systems. While studying at Istituto Marangoni London, she developed a foundational lens rooted in symbolic styling, image psychology, and aesthetic structure.
In 2013, a connection from Marangoni led her to assist stylist Marni Senofonte during the making of Beyoncé’s landmark visual album. She supported styling across pre-production and on-set for the “Grown Woman” video, as well as artist campaigns including Kelly Rowland’s appearances on The Voice. This intimate, behind-the-scenes glimpse into one of pop culture’s most iconic visual mythologies directly informed the Studio’s narrative frameworks.
In 2017, Bosaina returned to Marangoni Florence for faculty training and was later invited to tutor—further anchoring the Studio’s ethos in creative rigor, real-world immersion, and image as symbolic language.
Graduate Work & Cultural Impact
By 2016, The Fashion Studio had grown into a closed-loop vertical ecosystem. Graduates entered directly into professional pipelines: national TVCs, celebrity styling, campaign design, red carpet, and retail activations.
The curriculum expanded to include media training, commercial styling, and production workflows across fashion, beauty, telecom, real estate, and F&B sectors.
In tandem, Bosaina developed a full-spectrum styling agency and design atelier—crafting original looks for Egypt’s commercial industry across sci-fi, gaming, and tech-driven campaigns. From motocross-inflected streetwear to Afrofuturist glamour, the Studio helped script a new visual lexicon for futurist aesthetics in commercial media.
The Studio also served as a launchpad into fashion media, with top students placed directly into editorial teams and credited on major campaigns. By formalizing pathways into high-fashion publications, Bosaina transformed The Fashion Studio into a conduit between emerging talent and the Arab word's evolving image economy.
At its height, The Fashion Studio was more than a school. It was a cultural ministry, a living archive, and an aesthetic infrastructure for the next generation of image-makers. Its methods—still unmatched in the region—redefined what fashion styling could mean in the Arab world.




TFS Teaching Moments: Bosaina in-session with students
Campaign and editorial styling by TFS Alumni