There is a Lebanese revival culture that surpasses any fashion and architectural creativity, both of which are testament to the new image of the nation. The nation, previously divided by crises, is purifying itself from barbarity through the virtue of rebirth due to cross-fertilization between yesterday and today’s initiative like resilience and resourcefulness.
Fashion has also come back in the form of a trend to mix up old pieces of Lebanese colors and designs with modern fashion. Modern business corporations are mixing tradition with today’s fashion culture and green products and sustainable production systems. It is a fashion that is moving Lebanon to the next stage as the new Middle Eastern fashion capital and drawing national and international attention.
At the same time, the Lebanese urban landscape is being re-defined such that rehabilitation and restoration are one and the same as innovation, where yesterday’s battlefields are what most of Lebanon’s heritage buildings sport today. New construction equals rehabilitation since rebuilding does. Green city plans are on the rise, and the planners are penning out the spaces that find inspiration from cultural heritage but are alive enough to exist alongside the needs of the day. These are restoring a place and civic pride.
Fashion and architectonic crossroads is constructing a collaboration enterprise that expands cultural expression. Fashion shows are providing increasingly more products to specially constructed space, such as hands-on practice bridging context and creativity. Collective memory and culture inspire the collaboration as a source of creativity.
There is the public engagement at the center of this renaissance. The citizens are being provided with workshops, touch points and being gifted with ideas shared. It is such a simple project to upskill local makers and stimulate cross-disciplinary thinking, and this creates innovation and inspires Lebanon’s design sectors.
Short of it, the triumph of Lebanon over fashion and architecture is an eternal struggle to be reborn. From the convergence of contemporaneity and history, there are architects and designers giving birth to a new national identity. Through imagination, pride in history, and culture, such a new identity founded on pride in history, imagination, and culture will make Lebanon the peak of art and social rebirth for generations to come.
