Princess Lalla Salma: Moroccan Women’s Ambassador

Casablanca- She is the first lady of Morocco, Princess consort of King Mohamed VI. She holds some of the most prestigious honors, namely Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II of Belgium (2004), and Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain (2005).  She is Princess Lalla Salma.

She was a highly qualified information services engineer before becoming one of Morocco’s most cherished Princesses and one of the world’s most influential and elegant women. Princess Lalla Salma is known for playing numerous significant roles in Morocco, mainly social and cultural, some of which are supporting cancer associations and Fez Sacred Music Festival.

Internationally, Princess Lalla Salma has been successfully representing Morocco during a number of important ceremonies and events across the world. She is the ambassador of Moroccan women, Moroccan culture and Moroccan elegance and beauty across the world.

Princess Lalla Salma’s presence during many international events and ceremonies has been described on many occasions as exceptionally distinguished by many international voices, principally because of her majestic elegance, reflected in the cluster of beautiful and distinctive Moroccan attires she wears during those events.

During the coronation ceremony of the new Dutch King, Willeim-Alexander, last May, Princess Lalla Salma easily stole the spotlight twice from other royal, female attendants, appearing elegant in one of Morocco’s finest Kaftans and jewelries. While other princesses and queens who attended the ceremony opted for formal, yet magnificent dresses, Princess Lalla Salma attended the ceremony wearing one of Morocco’s most sophisticated attires, the Kaftan.

Her elegance, with a 100% Moroccan flavor, ranked her most elegant female royal attendee during Williem-Alexander’s coronation ceremony. Subsequent to this event, UK’s Hello Magazine launched a best-dressed poll on its website to designate the most elegant among the Queens and Princesses who attended the coronation Ceremony. The majority if online voters chose Princess Lalla Salma’s outfit as their favorite.

Her majestic attire earned her 38% of the vote, closely followed by Denmark’s elegant Princess Mary with 37%. This wasn’t all! The following day, as The Netherlands welcomed its new King, Princess Lala Salma stepped out with another magnificent Moroccan attire. This one earned Morocco’s first lady 45% of the vote, with a large gap between her and Queen Maxima, who earned only 22% of the votes.

“Mother-of-two Lalla Salma turned heads in a heavily embellished green caftan and towering gold heels. Floral detailing on the front of the caftan matched the Moroccan princess’ flame red curls, which she wore in a ponytail,” wrote UK’s Hello Magazine on May 12.

Princess Lala Salma deservedly stole the spotlight twice from her fellow royal women, only proving that Morocco’s glamorous Kaftan has what it takes to compete with the world’s most elaborate fashion trends.

Here surfaces Princess Lalla’s Salma’s role as a cultural ambassador. Her ranking as most elegant royal woman during these ceremonies does not only put her alone in the limelight; rather, it is Morocco’s entire culture that becomes an international interest. A previous article on MWN demonstrates how the world’s most beautiful and influential female celebrities have found in Kaftan a match to their distinctive beauty and refined taste in fashion.

Princess Lalla Salma is an ambassador of Moroccan distinctive sense of elegance and beauty. Her own sense of elegance is an mixture of Morocco’s traditional conceptualization of beauty, to which she remains faithful, as well as our contemporary era’s modernist breath.

Princess Lalla Salma only substantiates the idea that a Moroccan woman is most beautiful when she clings to her own cultures conceptualization of beauty and elegance. Most women around the world prefer to subscribe to the conventional, mainstream and globalized sense of beauty and fashion, whilst a scarce few remain faithful to their own culture’s definition of what makes a woman beautiful.

Morocco’s First Lady is also the ambassador of the contemporary Moroccan woman, the one that proves qualified and capable of taking up responsibility and leadership roles which have for long been traditionally restricted to men. She is an unwavering proof that Morocco has embraced a new, constructive position towards women unlike that medievalist, downgrading one it had held decades ago. Women now are as crucial to Morocco’s development as men are. Princess Lalla Salma is a towering evidence.