Zuhair Murad, a spring-summer under the term of the cedar<

On se souvient du fier bâtiment dressé face au port, portant en lettres majuscules l’enseigne de l’un des couturiers libanais les plus célébrés sur les tapis rouges. Tel un phare immatériel, le quartier général de Zuhair Murad annonçait à qui venait du large son arrivée au havre de la fête, de l’élégance et de la sensualité.

Blown, ripped, shredded: from the brand, its offices, its workshops, its archives, nothing remains.At the contiguous little coffee, the young waitress died without seeing coming.The brotherhood of little-mayors in a white coat, which sometimes crossed a cigarette on the sidewalk looking at the sea, has miraculously rescued at devastation.The next day, we were already sweeping, we moved what could be, we were trying to resume our minds.And time to get up, Zuhair Murad was already launching a T-shirt capsule embroidered with words "Rise from the Ashes" in Gothic letters.Again and again be reborn from these damn ashes.For the designer, stopping was by no means a possible choice.Winter was already at the doors, and there was no question of jumping a season, nor breaking up continuity.On these ashes we would dance the fire dance and Zuhair Murad chooses, as if the abstraction imposed itself in the face of the erasure of reality, to pay tribute for its fall-winter 20-21 in Kandinsky and the Russian ballets.The sparkling collection duly delivered, this hard worker does not yet want to disobey the merciless fashion calendar.Already considering summer ... But where to find the inspiration that goes again and again to irrigate with joy and hope an increasingly gloomy universe of which he was the first to pay the price?Only one figure obsesses him and haunts him.Placed in the middle of the flag like a talisman: cedar, promise of resistance whatever happens.Observing these Lebanese people who continue, with the same grace, to heal, heal, comfort, support, make life triumph, he sees the majesty of the tree superimposing the force of the woman.He imagines a circular labyrinth where immaterial, a forest of snowy cedars is projected,.Seeking in this maze, the woman-arbre and the woman tree exchange their essences.

Wedding dress from the Zuhair Murad Haute Couture collection, spring-summer 2021.Zuhair Murad photo

Two similar natures

The Plumber Came Here Teday and Cut A Hole in the Kitchen Ceiling, and I haven’t even Figured Out How to Buy Mulch Yet.

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This spring-summer 21 collection therefore speaks of an osmosis between two similar natures in search of each other.Through this sacred labyrinth, the Zuhair Murad woman embarks on an initiatory research of self to the last meeting, a magic fusion with the tree which she acquired through her path Many sacred characters.Sewn with iridescent shadows and wooded freshness, the collection is available in a vocabulary of light fabrics and sensual textures: tulle and silk muslin, gazar, lurex, crêpe Georgette.The palette evokes the reflections of a forest brooded with mist, at the dawn of a summer day: powder sky, cloud pink, beige sand shaded with gray, clear water green or more sustained under the leaves, silver ofbark, sap and dew.Then arise the embroidery, in refined tattooing on transparent canvas-Signature know-how of Zuhair Murad-, or in glitter and sequins, silver waterfalls, precious splashes and recurring patterns animating the line of a bodice or the fluiditydress.

Zuhair murad, haute couture, spring-summer 2021.Zuhair Murad photo

Capture light

For embroidery of this couture collection, the creator has drawn patterns of bark, branches, cones and strains, digs furrows, forming tactile reliefs and three -dimensional hatching, especially capturing the light that surrounds each silhouettea fairy halo.The feathers are not to be outdone, metaphors of birds that arise, stolen or sleeves, on the cedar woman and her beautiful mystery.Long dresses, flared ball dresses, tapered sheaths and up to the wedding dress in pinkish white apotheosis illuminated with silver, decline in the purest glamor a vocabulary of air drapes, daring and unreal transparency slots.In the alternation of vagueness and structured, the wave underlined with elegant belts that refine it.Everything, in the Couture Zuhair Murad Summer 2021 collection, surrounds the woman of Sylvestre magic, glorifies her power and exalts her divine part between eternal sap and eternal veneration.