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Paris Fashion Week: Elie Saab Spring 2010

coutorture — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:43:55 -0700

Paris 10/07/09. Getty Images

Elie Saab Fall 2009 Haute Couture

FabSugar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:14:32 -0700

Paris 07/08/09 Dominique Charriau/WireImage.com.

Paris Fashion Week: Elie Saab Fall 2009

coutorture — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:13:00 -0700

Paris 03/11/09. Photos by Karl Prouse/Catwalking/Getty Images.

Quote Of The Day: Sarah Mower on Elie Saab Spring 2009 Haute Couture

coutorture — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:43:58 -0800

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As a Lebanese designer with a big business in Beirut and Paris, you'd think Saab might have fewer worries about sales, but rumor has it that Middle Eastern consumers are also exhibiting caution, so perhaps the relatively restrained colors reflect that.

”Review, Sarah Mower for Style.com

Elie Saab Spring 2009 Haute Couture

coutorture — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:45:30 -0800

Paris 01/28/09. Photos by Francois Guillot/Getty Images.

100 Handbags From Paris Fashion Week Spring 2009

coutorture — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:53:03 -0800

Choose from Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, John Galliano, Christian Dior, Chanel, Hermés, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Cacharel, Lie Sang Bong, Celine, Stella McCartney, Balenciaga, Leonard, Ungaro, Chloé, and Elie Saab. Click on the tags below to see the designer's individual Paris Fashion Week Spring 2009 collection.

The 50 Best Prints of Spring 2009

coutorture — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:42:08 -0700

If you are feeling glum from all of the gray we saw on the catwalk, the impending financial doom, our imperiled ecosystem or are just plain out of sorts we have the fifty best prints of Spring 2009 here to cheer you up. From Gucci to Pucci, Miu Miu to Marc Jacobs we cover New York, Milan and Paris' best prints.

Rome, Paris, Nah Its All About Beirut and Dubai

coutorture — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:23:13 -0700

We had a thought while browsing through the Spring 2009 gowns on display from Elie Saab, why didn't anyone float the Lebanese designer as a possible Valentino successor, moot though the point may now be. Now hear us out, the self trained designer knows how to make a woman look beautiful. His entire career has been based on designing gowns that make an impact. Saab was the first non-Italian designer to become a member of the Italian Camera Nazionale della Moda, not to mention his inclusion his Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture more than qualifies him to take on the more strenuous couture colections. Sure Saab doesn't quite have the Valentino color pallete but how hard is it to change up the fabrics to red huh?

And lord knows that the world's spendiest couture consumers are coming from the Middle East these days. We say what says jet set more than a weekend in Dubai. The new luxury class is very much from these oil rich countries and old line houses might do well to aknowledge that.

Paris Fashion Week: Elie Saab Spring 2009

coutorture — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:59:07 -0700

Paris Fashion Week Elie Saab Spring 2009 Ready To Wear Photos by Francois Guillot. Le Carrousel du Louvre, Salle Delorme, 1st

Fashion in 50 Seconds 6/10

coutorture — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:09:39 -0700

Fashion never stands still, even when your editors are in a whirl of travel plans gone awry. Lebanese couturier Elie Saab is designing signature luxury hotels with Dubai real estate developer Tatweer, starting with a high-end boutique hotel at The Tiger Woods Dubai resort. This adds Saab to a growing list of fashion designer or firms such as Giorgio Armani, Christian Lacroix, Versace, Salvatore Ferragamo and Bulgari, who all have or are developing luxury hotel projects. Barney's plans to open its fourth store in Japan in the city of Kobe. The CFDA is still concerned about model health. All of that excitement over China? Yeah, that obscures the real picture of just how hard it is to make it in retail or fashion over there. Express decides to go all Mise en abyme thanks to Lloyd (+ Co) and their Peter Lindbergh shot advertising campaign. And while we like to make a little Hamlet joke it feels just a little too Ophelia. The concept of the campaign - models cavorting on the beach - is only part of the story. What are those tripods doing on the beach, and that fan? Express wants to give viewers the feeling of being behind the scenes at a photo shoot. The campaign's conceit is to have the gear used to make fashion images, such as backdrops, light stands and cables, intentionally visible in each shot.