1. Could you tell us your fashion house story? How did you start? The story started with my mother who used to be a couturier in Beirut. I helped her in her fashion atelier before opening my own house. Architecture, which I studied, influenced my style. As well as the nature – another element the…
Six new names will appear in the official program of the upcoming Haute Couture week in Paris in January 2017. Some of them are not new to Parisian high fashion: since many seasons, they have been showing their collections “off the schedule” or presenting them at showrooms. Still it will be their first défilé as…
Judging by the reigning on the current autumn-winter haute couture week floral mood, Parisian designers decided to proclaim the advent of eternal summer. The tone was set by Donatella Versace who opened the couture week. In his turn, Georges Hobeika continued the vegetative theme, presenting a collection in the Lebanese designer’s favorite “contemporary princess’s wardrobe”…
“Sparkling organza gives birth to crystal buds, captured by silk muslin…” – from the first lines the press release, forestalling the fall-winter haute couture show of Georges Hobeika, tunes the audience to poesy and sets up a romantic mood. Drawing a portrait of a graceful and fantastic ingénue, the designer takes his heroine to the…