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Bilingual fashion boutique

Chiaca

A women’s fashion boutique built bilingual from the start — dresses, tops, pants, sets and new arrivals, in Arabic and English.

Chiaca — Bilingual fashion boutique
Live site: chiaca.co

The problem

Fashion in Lebanon sells in two languages at once — the same customer switches between Arabic and English in the same conversation. Bolting a translation plugin onto a finished store gives you broken layouts, half-translated buttons and product names that never got done. And a boutique lives or dies on how new arrivals are presented: if the newest pieces are not obviously new, the returning customer has no reason to come back this week.

What was built

  • A bilingual storefront designed in both languages from day one, with proper right-to-left layout for Arabic rather than mirrored text in a left-to-right frame.
  • A category structure that follows how a boutique merchandises: dresses, tops, pants, sets, and a New Arrivals lane that stays visible.
  • A clean, photography-led product presentation so the clothes carry the page.
  • Delivery-all-over-Lebanon messaging built into the shopping flow.
  • Bilingual SEO and Open Graph metadata, so the store ranks in both languages instead of only English.

The result

Chiaca reads as a native Arabic store and a native English store at the same time, with new arrivals given their own lane so there is always a reason to come back.

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