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  MODEL1345 MADELEINE VIONNET DRESS SUMMER 1922 – DETTO “THE STORM”   Silk canvas in brown and beige, cut along the nap and laid out in geometric compositions with gold seams.

  MADELEINE VIONNET DRESS WINTER 1920 – CALLED “FOUR HANDKERCHIEF DRESS”   Ivory crepe cut along the nap in 4 square panels, fixed on the shoulders and gathered by two vertical seams at the base.

  MADELEINE VIONNET EVENING DRESS WINTER 1930 – MODEL 4226 ATELIER MARGUERITE   Ivory muslin cut on the bias, embroidered with patterns of stylized clouds in silver beads, back of the corset with braided ribbon.

  Although he is welcomed with open arms in Los Angeles and Paris, his design studio is in the heart of Beirut where more than a hundred craftsmen and skillful embroiderers make a woman feel like a princess (or at least the lucky ones who can afford it) through their …

  Designer to the stars: Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow just to name a few, whenever he designs a dress he thinks of one woman alone: his wife. His story begins in a faraway land; a child prodigy, he designed his first dress at age nine for his sister. …