Elie Saab

Elie Saab is a Lebanese fashion designer with a successful career. He launched his label at the age of 18. Unlike other fashion designers, he is just self-trained. In 1981 he decided to move to Paris to study fashion but then he came back to Lebanon and opened his first workshop there. In 1997 he showed his collection for the first time outside Lebanon, in Rome. Surprisingly he became the member of the Italian Camera Nazionale della Moda although he is not Italian. His talent in fashion made him the first Lebanese designer that dressed an Oscar winner, Halle Berry. The Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture invited him to become a member in 2003. In this way he became popular also in Paris. Now he has workshops in Beirut, Paris and London. And he continues to create magnificent designs.