In Cairo's Streets a New Kind of R!sky Runway Emerges

CairoScene

10-02-2025

In this exclusive documentary, Scene Styled steps into the Risky Boys' their red-clad world, tracing the movement of a local fashion renaissance.
Cairo is a city in motion, a living organism of asphalt and bodies, its streets never still. They surge and subside, fold in on themselves, recalibrate under the pressure of a million footsteps, histories stacking like sediment. It is within this framework that The Risky Boys move - a trio of 22-year-old Egyptian creatives and models who have turned the city's alleys into their own restless runway.
But The Risky Boys - Ahmed Attef, Karim Alaa, and Mohamed Tarek - are not stitched into the fabric of high fashion's orderly lineage. They did not step from the hushed corridors of academies or emerge, perfectly honed, from the glass-and-steel ateliers of Paris and Milan. They collided, as things often do in Cairo, at the blurred peripheries of modeling shoots. Their catwalks are ungoverned, uncommodified. Not the bright antiseptic glare of a showroom, but the thick, fragrant air of butcher shops and souks, the labyrinthine alleyways of Banha and Al Mattariya - the places that formed them.
The Risky Boys are not here to infiltrate haute couture, to gently subvert it from within; they stand outside it entirely, pushing at its boundaries, testing its strength.
In this exclusive documentary, Scene Styled steps into their red-clad world, tracing the careful movements of a life lived in spectacle. Attef, Alaa, and Tarek peel back the layers - of perception, of performance, of the ever-thinning line between self and story. They examine the shifting gaze of a global audience, the local dialogues ignited in their wake, and the delicate art of turning the personal into the public. To walk a day in their shoes is to inhabit a narrative in motion - crafted, claimed, and cast into the world.
Credits:
Produced by: Scene Styled // MO4 Network
SceneStyled Managing Editor: Farida El Shafie
Creative Direction & Costume Design: Risky Boys
Creative Producer: Nariman El Bakry
Editor & Creative Partner: Ahmed Salah
DOP: Felo Alexander
Photography: Faris Zaitoon
Talent: Dona Emam
Makeup: Sara Talaat
Hair: Al Sagheer Salons
Set Design: Maria Saba
Agency Producer: Hesham Baghdady
Gaffer: Ahmed Gamal
2nd Camera & Sound: Eslam Ahmed
1st AC: Mahmoud Gehad
Lighting Technician: Mazen Mohamed