Ellie Saab 2008 Spring Couture Collection

   

   

   

Lebanese designer Elie Saab has long been a leading name in haute couture in the Middle East, where his romantic, crystal-encrusted evening and wedding gowns attracted princesses to his Beirut atelier, opened in 1982 (when he was just 18 years old). His ready-to-wear line, which launched in 1998 in Milan, heralds the same feminine aesthetic as his couture dresses, with brightly-colored silks, chiffons, pearl beading, and embroidered lace. Classically regal, yet unmistakably sexy, Saab’s designs combine Middle Eastern details with European fashion, and appear at home on Hollywood A-listers like Halle Berry who wore Saab at the 2002 and 2003 Academy Awards.

The International Press and Colleagues have praised his workmanship and his choice of style, which renders woman astonishingly beautiful. His fabrication is Middle Eastern, carried out by the one hundred artisans in the Beirut Atelier. His Collections never cease to astonish, with their rich fabrics and sumptuous embroidery, indispensable accessories for women eager for solid signs of well being and confident of established apparitions.