Stephanie Sayed surrounded by her T-shirts dyed in her unique blue "Blue 314." (Credit: Photo provided by the designer)
Lebanese by birth, Sayed grew up between two cultures, with part of her mother’s family living in Venezuela. "I grew up with this dual Lebanese and Venezuelan culture, and with a pretty remarkable family: lots of colors, very strong personalities, sometimes eccentric, tons of stories… In hindsight, there was sometimes a bit of a telenovela feeling !" she told L’Orient-Le Jour. That richness, she says, has profoundly shaped her imagination.Her childhood was also marked by something distinctly Lebanese: the pressure surrounding success and other people’s perceptions. “I was sometimes asked: ‘Why don’t you make dresses like Elie Saab?’” she says, laughing. “There’s always that comparison, that tendency to look at what the neighbor is doing, that impression that you could always do more or do things differently.”For Sayed, the...
Lebanese by birth, Sayed grew up between two cultures, with part of her mother’s family living in Venezuela. "I grew up with this dual Lebanese and Venezuelan culture, and with a pretty remarkable family: lots of colors, very strong personalities, sometimes eccentric, tons of stories… In hindsight, there was sometimes a bit of a telenovela feeling !" she told L’Orient-Le Jour. That richness, she says, has profoundly shaped her imagination.Her childhood was also marked by something distinctly Lebanese: the pressure surrounding success and other people’s perceptions. “I was sometimes asked: ‘Why don’t you make dresses like Elie Saab?’” she says, laughing. “There’s always that comparison, that tendency to look at what the neighbor is doing, that impression that you could always do more or do things...
