Promotion 2017-2018
ESMOD Beirut celebrated its end of year graduation events on June 18 (Professional Jury at our Premises) June 19 (Graduation ceremony at the Residence Des Pins) and on June 20 (Fashion show at USJ, Campus de l’Innovation et du Sport) in the presence Mr. Satoru Nino, the Chair of the Professional Jury & the President of ESMOD International. The 2018 prizes are shown below.
Jury members were strategically selected to ensure complementary backgrounds and skills.
Satoru NINO (Chair), Mary NINO (Sustainable development expert), Eric LEBAS (Attache Culturel, French Embassy), Hadia SINNO (Fashion Expert & Journalist), Hussein BAZAZA (Fashion Designer, Alumnus), Lana EL SAHELY (Blogger), Tania EZZEDINE (Head of real estate & Marketing, ABC Lebanon), Rebecca ZAATAR (Fashion Designer, Alumna), Fouad MAROUN (Secretaire General, USJ), Elie BAROUD (Fashion Designer, Alumnus), Maher BSAIBES (Fashion Designer, Alumnus), Desiree Sadeck (Journalist).
Prizes:
- Jury Prize: Marylou Nemr
- Aiguille d’Or: Jolie Jreij
- Coup de Coeur: Elio Srour & Lea El Banna
- Fashion Design: Tara El Najjar
- Pattern Making: Elias Abou Antoun
The fashion show presented almost 100 total looks reflecting the richness of our students’ personal universe with tackling philosophical questions such as the concept of time and acceptance and others making us travel to worlds of fairy tales, music and mangas. ESMOD BEIRUT was privileged to have for the fourth consecutive year Rami Kadi, who accompanied the students throughout the year and provided them with individualized advice to better express their concepts and translate them into collections.
The show was the perfect opportunity to announce our recent partnership with the non-governmental (NGO) fabric AID in the context of our fashion sustainable agenda. Our second and third year students have contributed to an “upcycling” project and transformed 300 garments, which will be presented and sold in a fashion show during the month of July. ESMOD also shared with the audience the new short course introduced in 2018 based on their results of the 2017 alumni survey, and more specifically the need to further develop the Fashion Buying designed and given by two ESMOD alumni, CHARBEL FEGHALI and CARLA MAHSERDJIAN, and another one on Social Media for Fashion in partnership with Keeward.
ESMOD is grateful to NYX, Ixsir, Tony El Mendelek, Castania and Oquendo for also being part of the fashion show celebrations and contributing to the success of this event, impeccably organized by BOUCHRA CONSULANCY.