A Doha bespoke menswear and tailoring house. The current mall listing identifies the physical fashion shop.
Best for Bespoke Doha menswear and tailoring
Cellini Signature was founded in Doha in 1999 by Ghazi Al Mannai, whose vision for the brand traces to a trip to Italy in 1984, where he struck up a friendship with a boutique owner named Alessandro in a small spa town. Al Mannai has described that encounter as the spark for building a Qatari retail business run on the same standards of craft and service he encountered there. Cellini's core project has been the modernization of the thobe, the traditional ankle-length garment worn across the Gulf, reworking it through an expanded range of cuts, fabrics, colors, and patterns while keeping its essential form intact — treating a garment often mass-produced elsewhere as a made-to-measure fashion object instead. Al Mannai has maintained close ties to Italy for three decades, traveling there monthly to source fabrics from mills including Loro Piana and Thomas Mason, and sending in-house tailors to train directly with Italian fashion houses rather than relying on imported finished goods alone. He frames the business around three stated principles — passion for fashion, commitment to quality, and attentive service — with an emphasis on letting clients follow their garment through its making, from fabric and buttons to thread, rather than simply buying off a rack. That approach built Cellini into what trade press has described as Qatar's leading name in luxury tailored menswear.
Moonlight Concept is a Qatari fashion house founded in 2011 for women's apparel, from abayas and kaftans to jackets and suits. Pieces are handmade from high-quality fabrics and selected designs can be tailored to measure. The house keeps its main fashion house on Al Waab Street and a gallery in Msheireb Galleria in Doha.
Best for Handpicked womenswear and collector pieces with a regional design focus
Moonlight Concept is a Qatari fashion house founded in 2011 that describes its work as reinterpreting Arab elegance through a contemporary lens. It specialises in women's apparel, ranging from abayas and kaftans to jackets and suits, alongside accessories such as eyewear and fragrance and pieces of home art. The house says its pieces are handmade from high-quality fabrics and are defined by refined craftsmanship and pure lines, with distinctive details. Selected designs can be tailored to a client's own measurements. Its motto, look unique, feel unique, runs across the site. The Art Alphabet Collection turns Arabic calligraphy into a design language and grew from a creative dialogue between Muna Al Kaabi and the artist Ali Hassan. The original store stands on Al Waab Street in Doha, which the house calls its main fashion house. A second space in Msheireb Galleria, Building U02 on Sikkat Wadi Msheireb, serves as its gallery in Msheireb Downtown Doha. Beyond Qatar the label is stocked by Galerie Lafayette and Harvey Nichols, and an online shop ships worldwide by DHL express in the house's signature packaging.
Qatari designer Amna Al-Misned opened TRZI in 2010 and now works from a Msheireb atelier in the Doha Design District where tailors are visible behind a glass divide. The label reworks the abaya and bisht into cuts named T, A, Box and Blazer, and runs repair and redesign services.
Award-winning Qatari designer WAAD, named Designer of the Year at the 2013 Arab Women Awards, makes custom abayas across classic, lace, workwear and evening lines from Doha. Each piece is cut to the client's own measurements and preferences.