Elie Saab
Elie Saab was born in Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon on July 4th, 1964 and is the Fashion Designer. At the age of 59, Elie Saab biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Elie Saab (born 4 July 1964) is a Lebanese fashion designer.
His main workshop is in Lebanon, and there are additional workshops in Milan and Paris.
He began his business in the early 1980s and specialized in bridal couture (expensive fabrics, lace, gemstones, Swarovski crystals, pearls, embroidery, etc. He is the first Arab to be admitted to the fashion industry's governing body, Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. In 2016, Saab served as a judge on Project Runway: Middle East.
His couture collections are available in Paris, London, and Beirut, as of March 2017, though his ready-to-wear pieces were in 160 shops and his own boutiques, marking the first time Saab has dressed a royal.
Early life
Elie Saab is the eldest son of a wood merchant who raised five children in Damour, a southern coastal suburb in Beirut, Lebanon.
Saab's mother, a Maronite Arab Arab, began sewing as a child. His fascination had turned to fashion at the age of eight. With his sisters as models, he'll take patterns from newspapers and raid his mother's closet for supplies.
Personal life
Saab and his wife Claudine live in Lebanon with their children and three sons, who live together.
Career
Saab came from 1981 to Paris to study fashion. He later left Beirut to reopen his fashion line. He started working with a team of 15 people in 1982, when he was 18 years old. His atelier, who specialized in bridal couture, began making wedding dresses and gowns out of expensive fabrics, lace, detailed embroidery, pearls, crystals, and silk threads. His fame in Beirut grew from dressing women in his neighborhood, and was soon enhanced by high-socie women sporting his styles.
Saab was the first non-Italian designer to join the National Chamber of Italian Fashion in 1997, and he unveiled his first collection outside of Rome in 1997.
He began his ready-to-wear collection in Milan in 1998, as well as an accessories collection. Elie Saab signed a Beauté Prestige International fragrance and cosmetics deal later this year. Saab hosted a fashion preview in Monaco this year, with Princess Stéphanie of Monaco in attendance.
According to reports, one of his dresses, which was heavily embroidered with emeralds and diamonds, was worth $2.4 million.
After being the first Lebanese designer to dress an Oscar winner, Halle Berry in 2002, Saab became more popular in the United States. The Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture invited him to become a member in May 2003, and he presented his first haute couture collection in Paris in July 2003.
Elie by Elie Saab, he began working with Pronovias in 2003 to produce Elie by Elie Saab, a bridal line.
In 2006, the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture inducted him as a member correspondent. The Spring-Summer 2006 collection was his first ready-to-wear collection in Paris.
The Beyoncé Experience tour's designers, Tina Knowles, House of Deréon, Giorgio Armani, Versace, and Herve Leger were among the costume designers for the 2007 The Beyoncé Experience tour's outfits. Overall, Saab hosted 102 celebrities for events in 2010, up from 40 in 2009. The 2011 figure, which was up until March, was 88. Madame Tussauds unveiled a wax statue of Kate Winslet draped in the Elie Saab dress she wore at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 2011. Elie Saab's first fragrance, Le Parfum, was released in 2011.
When attending Royal Ascot in 2019, the Duchess of Cambridge wore an Elie Saab gown. It was the first time a British royal wore one of Saab's gowns.
He began studying at Lebanese American University and London College of Fashion in 2012 to pursue a bachelor's degree in fashion design. The brand had boutiques in Beirut, Dubai, Doha, London, Geneva, Geneva, New York City, and Mexico, as of 2013. Elie Saab Jr., a Saab's nephew, became the brand director in 2013.
In 2016, Saab served as a judge on Project Runway: Middle East. The Elie Saab company in London opened a second Paris boutique and a new one in Mayfair, London, and one in Manhattan between 2015 and 2017. It was his first store in the United States when it opened in October 2016. His couture collections are available in Paris, London, and Beirut, as of March 2017, although his ready-to-wear clothes were sold in 160 shops and his own boutiques. The Elie Saab company opened a new Madison Avenue store last month, as well as that month.
At Emaar Beachfront property in Dubai, Lebanese fashion designer and the real estate development firm Emaar unveil luxurious Elie Saab. Elie Saab's luxurious gated island home, Grand Bleu Tower in Emaar Beachfront, will feature one, two and three-bedroom apartments as well as four-bedroom penthouses with interiors. The Arabian Sea, The Palm, and Dubai Marina are among the residential buildings that have views of the Arabian Sea.
The explosion damaged Saab's main office and headquarters, and his family's home was completely destroyed.
Despite this, the designer and his staff are planning to return to work in order to complete the collection for the September show.
Elie Saab introduced an initiative in April 2021 that involved donating a portion of sales to UNICEF's "Integrated Education and Wellbeing for Vulnerable Girls in Lebanon Program."