Two hours after the appalling explosion in Beirut flooded the news, agonizing replies from friends started coming through to my phone. Roni Helou, one of the most committed ethical young designers I know, DM’d: “I’m fine but my house and atelier are destroyed.” The Mukhi sisters, jewelry designers Maya, Meena, and Zeenat said: “We’re fine, but the shop’s badly damaged.
After seeing heart-wrenching footage from inside the beautiful, smashed house belonging to Maison Rabih Kayrouz, I managed to find him through DM. “I am in the hospital,” Rabih, the couturier who normally brings his chic-modern couture collections to show in Paris, managed to tell me later, while being treated for a head injury. “My place is in one of the beautiful 19th-century buildings. I live there and work there, everyone is there and it is devastated.
At that event, international guests, who included Pierpaolo Piccioli, Diane von Furstenberg, and Olivier Rousteing, were introduced to a stunning variety of designers, including the outstanding young couturier Krikor Jabotian. The unique modern energy, exuberance and refusal to be daunted that radiates from the creative independents of Lebanon spontaneously turned that afterparty into an unforgettable dance marathon.
The scale of the disaster is what I think made these friends in the Beirut fashion community say they were “fine” when in fact their studios and homes have been wrecked. No one is more aware than they are of the bonds of interdependence between the craftspeople, sewers, embroiderers, and goldsmiths they rely on. A glance at Instagram posts from Cynthia Merhej of Renaissance Renaissance shows her impassioned sense of responsibility, urging people to employ and buy locally.
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