Kuwaiti painter Alymamah Rashed was stuck in traffic on her commute to her studio when the red humaith flower, a spring plant native to the Middle East, caught her eye.
"I stopped in the middle of traffic and plucked as many humaith flowers as I could, to put them in the studio and in my home for my grandmother," she begins.
"When you see it on the sidewalk specifically, it looks like nature's flame."
When Dior's invitation to collaborate on the Lady Dior heritage bag arrived in Alymamah's inbox, the blood-red petals were at the forefront of her mind.
"The image was there," she recalls. "I knew that I wanted to signify the [humaith flower] as a symbol of eternal becoming."
