Nazzy Beglari is an-award winning Iranian-American journalist and fashion designer. Growing up in Tehran in a multi-cultural family of Iranian, Azerbaijani and Georgian descent, Beglari was exposed to her grandmother’s collection of vintage ikat coats, suzani bed spreads and rare textiles. That has sparked a lifetime passion for hand loomed textiles. She left Iran in 1979 and moved to the US where she studied journalism and eventually became senior international correspondent covering the conflict zones. She later freelanced for CNN in Abu Dhabi and for Harper’s Bazaar Art Middle East.
Eventually she turned her passion for fabrics into a fashion business, mostly using ikat textiles she hunts down Uzbekistan, India, Thailand and Japan. Her designs have won praise from some of the most beautiful and talented personalities in the world of cinema, including Isabella Rossellini, Tilda Swinton, Golshifteh Farahani, Yousra and Hend Sabri, and the celebrated Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat is also an admirer of Nazzy’s unique designs. She is careful to follow the principles of ethical and slow fashion and is mindful of ‘no-waste’ fashion. Her designs have been featured on TF1 in France, Architectural Digest Middle East and Architectural Digest The National.