Since 2018, the year of his last catwalk show, Rani Zakhem seemed to have disappeared from the haute couture seasons in which he was a notable player. Only nine years had passed between the founding of his eponymous label in 2009 and this silence. The Lebanese designer's signature was the emotion with which he rendered the colors of his native Kenya in his dresses. From Nairobi, where he lived until the age of 10, to Mombasa on the Indian Ocean, to the Serengeti where he vacationed, his eyes capture the vivid nuances of light and flora, conveyed in his collections as if recreating a lost paradise. His passion came from his mother, whose elegance and magazine-inspired style matched his artistic nature. His creations, from one collection to the next, illustrated his obsession with glamor, the real thing, that of Hollywood in its golden...