Interviews

Prestige issue 260, March 2015
A true visionary, an influential fashion icon, a silhouette alchemist… a true artist. At the helm of Lanvin since 2001, Alber Elbaz revived the world’s oldest couture fashion house, a sleeping beauty until his arrival. His down-to-earth creations ooze timeless elegance... with a touch of fun, the Alber way. Lanvin knows no age barrier and translates easily across the generations.

Prestige issue 260, March 2015
Writing and politics do they meet? Both are an art, the art of expression and the art to direct. While the writings defend rights, politics work to achieve them. The writer and politician complement each other. In 1976 in Lebanon, the stakes were high, with a country at war and uncontrolled economic situation. George Skaff, journalist, writer and minister at the time, has succeeded.

Prestige issue 179, June 2008
It is a very united and strong family we met just before the election of Michel Sleiman, 12th President of the Lebanese Republic. The receptions of the villa in Fayadieh crawling with people. Parents and many friends came to congratulate the family and share the emotional moments before the election meeting at Parliament at 5 in the afternoon of this historic Sunday of May 25th.

Prestige issue 77, October 1999
Icon of international song, he once again profoundly touched an adoring public, in one excessive and humble gesture in his sole recital at the Grand Hotel Kadri in Zahle. It is in its quiet lounges that we had the privilege of meeting the Titan with a golden voice.

Prestige issue 64, september 1998
Born in 1921, Wadih Francis became Wadih el Safi at 17 years old. The directors of the Lebanese Radio have decided so, for this young man who won top national voice of the song contest. This Safi surname, pure, will accompany some 50 years dedicated exclusively to exalt Lebanese Tarab.

Prestige issue 259, February 2015
To mark the 250th anniversary of Baccarat, Manasseh, exclusive agent of the brand in Lebanon, celebrated the event in the presence of Mathias, designer and creator of the House. In a long interview with Prestige, Mathias tells his fascinating story with Baccarat, the most famous international manufacture of glassware.

Prestige issue 81, February 2000
The night of his birthday on December 20th 1999, in his sanctuary at Doha-Aramoun, that few could visit, we have an appointment with Salim Hoss. After meeting him at his home in Aisha Bakkar in Beirut for a first interview, two days later the Prime Minister invites us to his villa in Doha that he built «stone by stone, a part of myself».

Prestige issue 49, June 1997
A name that raises so much values, so many memories: beauty, culture, cosmopolitanism ... and the memory of a festival that embraced the columns of Baalbeck.

Prestige issue 34, March 1996
Skillful fingers fix colors and nodes on a NAWL. Leaning on her loom, a Bedouin revives the tradition and takes one to one every thousand gestures. She suddenly looks up and raises her arms. A woman walks toward her, very beautiful, with simple majesty. It’s her! Exclamations broke out in the workshop ...

Prestige issue 29, October 1995
«I do not blame our society. In our country, there is everything, a sharp mind and a willingness to trade inherited from our ancestors who followed the path of the stars».

Prestige issue 23, April 1995
She seduces Lebanon with her modern spirit and dynamism. If Mona Hraoui acknowledges being a privileged woman, happy, she remains sensitive to the great issues of today such as thalassemia, drugs, AIDS, wars, loss of values, the future worries her sometimes "but I trust human consciousness," said the First Lady. Mona Hraoui4

Prestige issue 18, November 1994
Keystone of independence, since its beginning in 1946, he remains inseparable from the Lebanese political scene. His infallible memory guides us into unexplored windings deep in history.