🎙️'The Ensemble': Live from Riyadh fashion week, strapless dress threatens Iranian regime, British monarch to pray with the Pope for the first time in 500 years

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Suzanne Kianpour, Sophie Donkers, and Veronika Kolosova

Oct 22, 2025

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Hi - it’s Suzy in Saudi. Welcome to our midweek update - at the end of the Long and Winding Road to the Stella McCartney show in Riyadh (sorry!), wedding dress unrest in Iran, and all the rest of the news so far this week.

It’s been ten years since my first reporting trip to Saudi Arabia, a time when it was so rare for reporters to get access to the King…

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