E L I E S A A BSpring 2012 Haute Couture

Georgina Ogirri

E L I E S A A BSpring 2012 Haute Couture

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Elie Saab is a name you hear on the red carpet more and more these days. What makes the Lebanese designer so popu-lar with the Hollywood crowd? An influential celebrity stylist told us, “His dresses are shiny, uncomplicated, and easy to di-gest.” That sums up Saab’s new Couture offering quite well. He showed full-skirted party frocks and slim evening gowns in a rain-bow of pastel shades, nearly all of them sparkly. What separated one from the next was the ver-tiginousness of a neckline, the presence or absence of sleeves, the length of a train, and the oc-

casional cape. He included one print, an oversize botanical, but it looked like an afterthought amid all that pink, peach, yel-low, mint green, and baby blue.

Our stylist friend neglected to mention one thing in her expla-nation of Saab’s success: light-ness. Despite all the handwork, these dresses—with the excep-tion of an uncharacteristically heavy wedding gown—appeared almost weightless. That’s gotta count for something when you could be walking away from the Oscars with a statuette.

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Anja Rubik

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Cora Emmanuel

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