In Beirut, where fashion lives dangerously

Middle East Online

Late last year, while working one afternoon in his atelier in central Beirut, the fashion designer Krikor Jabotian and his 20 or so staff members heard a very loud bang.

It sounded like a bomb,” said Mr. Jabotian, who grew up in the city during the civil war that raged in Lebanon from 1975 to 1990 and started his label there five years ago. “But we just kept working. That’s just how we work in Beirut: expect the unexpected.”

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