Fashion Week Comes to Saudi Arabia—in Modest Style

Models walk the runway in Riyadh in opaque fabrics and skirts that don’t show knees

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—At this catwalk show, only women are allowed to watch, skirts can’t show off the knees and cleavage is strictly forbidden.

Welcome to Fashion Week, Saudi-style.

Saudi Arabia is hosting its first-ever Arab Fashion Week, an event that is testing the limits of what is acceptable in a profoundly religious country where women...