The imprint of Milia Maroun, radiant, is too deep to fade. (Credit: Photo taken from the official Milia Maroun website)
White curls on brown skin, an improbable hairstyle that made her look like a page from the 18th century... It was a small concession to cancer, and she had accepted it, proudly displaying her favorite portrait where she appeared bald, her gaze direct and intense. Such was Milia Maroun, a serene fighter behind the iconic clothing designer whose contributions brought Lebanon’s artistic scene to universality. Torn between interior architecture and fashion — which she studied at Esmod Paris and taught in Damascus, where the famous school had raised its flag — she preferred the moving aesthetic and public presence of clothing over the intimacy of private spaces. In the mid-1990s, in a Lebanon experiencing, for the first time in 20 years, a life without shelling, fashion was a grail through which everyone saw a way to recover dignity and the...
White curls on brown skin, an improbable hairstyle that made her look like a page from the 18th century... It was a small concession to cancer, and she had accepted it, proudly displaying her favorite portrait where she appeared bald, her gaze direct and intense. Such was Milia Maroun, a serene fighter behind the iconic clothing designer whose contributions brought Lebanon’s artistic scene to universality. Torn between interior architecture and fashion — which she studied at Esmod Paris and taught in Damascus, where the famous school had raised its flag — she preferred the moving aesthetic and public presence of clothing over the intimacy of private spaces. In the mid-1990s, in a Lebanon experiencing, for the first time in 20 years, a life without shelling, fashion was a grail through which everyone saw a way to recover dignity and...
