Elias Makhoul
BFA fashion design
Lebanese american university
Specialisms: Apparel / Fashion Styling / Casual/Streetwear
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Elias Makhoul
First Name: Elias
Last Name: Makhoul
Specialisms: Apparel / Fashion Styling / Casual/Streetwear
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My Location: Beirut, Lebanon
University / College: Lebanese american university
Course / Program Title: BFA fashion design
About
Fashion Designer & Creative based in Lebanon.
A fresh graduate exploring fashion through design, styling, and creative direction, with a focus on unconventional materials, strong silhouettes, and contemporary luxury. Inspired by culture, people, and the tension between the familiar and the unexpected.
Currently building, creating, and looking for opportunities to grow within the fashion industry
Winner of the Coup de Cœur Award, Brushing Shoulders questions who has the authority to define “good taste” in the contemporary era. Inspired by John Chamberlain’s sculptures, particularly his use of discarded and compressed car parts, the collection explores transformation through fragmentation, collision, and reconstruction. It is built around fictitious narratives and imagined encounters between strangers in the streets, where fleeting interactions become exchanges of identity, emotion, and physical presence. Through garments, textures, silhouettes, and the manipulation of the body, the collection imagines individuals exchanging not only feelings, but fragments of themselves. Brushing Shoulders transforms the everyday encounter into a visual language of collision and connection, challenging conventional ideas of beauty, taste, and individuality
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