Typology
Commercial
Usage
Experiential Retail
Location
Designed to be their flagship store in Alexandria, Egypt
Floor Area
12 × 18m footprint.
Scope
Spatial concept
Client
Concept sprint. Designed for mothernaked.
Duration
Two weeks. Brief to full visual narrative.
Date of Completion
May 2026
CGI
outofspaces® studio
What would a space feel like if it was built from the brand's own skin?
The mashrabiya is one of the most distinctly Egyptian architectural moves. A perforated screen between inside and outside that filters light, creates depth, and gives a building its skin. For centuries it has done what good design always does. It makes the boundary between two worlds beautiful.
For Mother Naked the move was simple. Instead of a traditional geometric pattern, the perforation unit is the brand's own emblem. The m.-top form, two rounded bumps, one valley, one dot, tiled across the full facade in hot magenta powder-coated steel. Every unit in the screen is the brand's letter. The building wears its monogram the way the brand wears its formula. Lightly. Precisely. In a way that lets what's underneath show through.
By day sunlight passes through the perforations and casts the m. on the floor inside. By night an LED display behind the steel glows through every void and illuminates the Alexandria street. The building is never not Mother Naked.
Inside: one continuous cool pale pink world. Sky blue zellige at the ritual counter. Three brass basins. Nested arches that pull you toward a glowing circular mirror at the back. A strelitzia at the centre of the gondola, the only warm saturated colour in a restrained pink space.
The lip treat does one thing really well and doesn't pretend to do anything else. The space works the same way.
You are inside the brand's own letter. The m. falls on the floor around you. The light comes from within.