He put Beirut on the couture map. Elie Saab's signature - lace, crystals, embroidery layered into gowns that photograph like architecture - made him the first Lebanese designer admitted to Paris's Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, the guild that decides who gets to call their work couture at all.
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Magdalena Frackowiak in Elie Saab at Paris Fashion Week Fall Winter 2011
Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, wearing an Elie Saab bridal gown in 2012.![Many attendees at the 64th Golden Globe Awards in 2007 chose beaded or metallic dresses, such as Beyoncé's sequinned gold Elie Saab gown.[39]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Beyonce_and_Evangeline_Lilly.jpg/1280px-Beyonce_and_Evangeline_Lilly.jpg)
Many attendees at the 64th Golden Globe Awards in 2007 chose beaded or metallic dresses, such as Beyoncé's sequinned gold Elie Saab gown.[39]On YouTube
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Elie Saab launched his business in Lebanon in the early 1980s, starting with bridal couture and building a reputation on meticulous craft: gemstones, pearls, embroidery, lace worked into structured silhouettes. By 2017 his collections were selling in Paris, London, and Beirut, with ready-to-wear distributed through 160 retailers and his own boutiques. The Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture made him a member, the first Lebanese designer granted that credential. In 2016 he judged Project Runway: Middle East.
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