My East more turned to the senses and emotions

Lebanese fashion is not just to Elie Saab, designer evening dresses strassées and yield which are stars. The creator Rabih Kayrouz plays on an another niche: minimalist, less conspicuous and easy to wear. His clothes look like sculptures to the pure and structured lines as this small dress of black organza with a bubbling back or this very net sarouel in wool cloth. The slightest movement, the Vestal in gazar (kind of organza) ribbed dress seemed to detach. The pleated mesh, seamless sweater, shudder on the body. Contents to the deaf hues are introduced by no Ribbon, node or other embellishment. "Women are poetry." "They look like angels," enthuses the former face of Yves Saint Laurent, the cliff Loulou. For its part, Martine Hadida, the first to have sold clothes in France in the Ranger shops, rents the portability of his creations as well as technical, worthy of couture excellence.

At age 16, Rabih Kayrouz wants to learn fashion and French know-how in Paris. After studies at the school of the Chambre syndicale of couture, he worked in two of the most prestigious houses: Chanel and Christian Dior. "I then realized that the style is mainly the quality of the art". A Chanel jacket not recognized not in its fabric, but finishes. "To perfect the channel or the liner editing", he explains. Clothes, entirely manufactured in France, they also differ by their techniques haute couture as bias. Impeccable. Worthy of the French designer Madeleine Vionnet. Another sign of recognition: the liner by an Assembly of pieces of organza thanks to of silk microentrecroisements. Master work. "Rabih Kayrouz...". "Even before know, his name I was dreaming", says Martine Hadida. The maronite Christian is no cliché conveyed on this country. He doesn't like what is tape-to-l'oeil. Always wearing a white shirt (he has a real collection) and dark pants, it does not adhere to the trappings of wealth. Gold jewelry, debauchery of money and other clothing rebrodés precious stones have nothing to do with his universe. It refers to a further East. More discreet. Authentic. "My East more turned to the senses and emotions." "It sits on the ground and eat with the fingers," he said. He also excelled in the dabke. "It is one of the few men to master this traditional dance," says his friend Kamal. True Aesthete, he lives in "locations". His Parisian workshop is a gigantic light bathed artist workshop open on a small paved courtyard of the 7th arrondissement. Responsible for history, this place was once small theatre of Babylon and allowed the first waiting for Godot in 1953. He echoed his beyrouthin workshop in Gemmayze, the old district of artisans of wood has become hyper trendy. His traditional home in clear stones from Batroun, a preserved tourist seaside village, it is the privileged place where he and Kamal, founder of organic markets Beirut, like receive New York photographers, Lebanese designers, French artists and other international personalities with a view. The famous Eastern hospitality...

The name of Rabih Kayrouz is inextricably linked to Beirut, a city booming, a city once again fashionable. "It fits perfectly in everything what is happening here for fifteen years, says Alexandre Medawar, designer and curator, a keen observer of the beyrouthine creative scene." His style like many in the wealthy Lebanese who are more and more under international influence. "It is also the home of the upper middle class, equivalent to the Parisian Bobo, which develops there." The name of Rabih Kayrouz is also synonymous with modernity in all countries of the Middle East where clothes are sold: the Kuwait, in Saudi Arabia or Bahrain. With its success in France, he managed to please two radically different fashion cultures.