• 02/01/2023
• By binternet
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Elie Saab, or the praise of simplicity<

"You'll see, there's never a last-minute rush," Elie Saab's press secretary told us reassuringly. Having rubbed shoulders with the Lebanese couturier backstage – a star in his country for thirty years before seducing the international press – we had settled in with confidence for our visit two days before his show. And now, a few hours away, nothing was quite ready. After many apologies, the meeting is postponed to the next day. Twenty-four hours flat before the show. In the huge building, a former bourgeois residence in the very chic 16th arrondissement of Paris, no Cerberus. But a stream of young people crossing each other, all smiles, in the entrance. The team is like its conductor. One imagines the collective discipline necessary for the organization of the multiple activities of the house. A sewing workshop in Beirut, a studio in Paris dedicated to ready-to-wear, teams for shoes, bags, jewellery... which are developing at full speed. "I spend my life traveling," slips Elie Saab, 51. A week in Lebanon, the next in Paris, then Milan and New York. » Its four cardinal points.