Meet the designer turning Beirut’s forgotten fashion into contemporary couture

Middle East Monitor

Larissa von Planta’s atelier is hidden away in a traditional 1930s Lebanese villa on one of Beirut’s typically haphazard and bustling streets. Standing on her balcony, though, ever so slightly shielded from the heat of the midday sun by a withered palm tree, and surrounded by offcuts of fabrics, bits of ribbon and disused zips, it feels like a completely different world.


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