Viany de Marceau (center), with models at the end of her first fashion show, Dec. 19, 2025. (Credit: Renee Robledo-Davis/L'Orient Today)
On Friday Dec. 19, 2025, the Migrant Community Centre (MCC) was transformed into a high-end modernist runway, and the excitement was tangible. The warm smell of frying plantains and Cameroonian food filled the air, blending with laughter and music as people slowly took to their seats.At the center of it all was Viany, a Cameroonian fashion designer who arrived in Lebanon in 2018 under what she calls “the horrible Kafala system contract.” Seven years later, here she was, presenting her own collection, created with her hands and with the help of her community and the support of a whole network of solidarity. Everything you need to know Hacking Lebanese Politics #11: What is Kafala, the system behind an unfolding slavery case in Lebanon? “This show is a punch in the face to the Kafala system,” she said. “Women in this system are scared...
On Friday Dec. 19, 2025, the Migrant Community Centre (MCC) was transformed into a high-end modernist runway, and the excitement was tangible. The warm smell of frying plantains and Cameroonian food filled the air, blending with laughter and music as people slowly took to their seats.At the center of it all was Viany, a Cameroonian fashion designer who arrived in Lebanon in 2018 under what she calls “the horrible Kafala system contract.” Seven years later, here she was, presenting her own collection, created with her hands and with the help of her community and the support of a whole network of solidarity. Everything you need to know Hacking Lebanese Politics #11: What is Kafala, the system behind an unfolding slavery case in Lebanon? “This show is a punch in the face to the Kafala system,” she said. “Women in this system...
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