Rabih Kayrouz is a Lebanese fashion designer. Having migrated to Paris at the age of 16 to study and then train in the workshops of design houses Dior and Chanel, Kayrouz returned to Beirut In 1995. He quickly developed a reputation for designing evening gowns and wedding dresses.
In 2008, Kayrouz returned to Paris to open his own design house, Maison Rabih Kayrouz. Since 2009, Kayrouz has been a guest designer for the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, with his seasonal collections included in the bi-annual Paris haute-couture fashion shows. In 2011, Kayrouz was selected by ELLE Magazine as an "Emerging New Talent”. In 2012 he began to focus on ready-to-wear, creating a capsule collection for the French mail order brand La Redoute.
Kayrouz co-founded in 2008 a non-profit organisation called STARCH which helps launch emerging Lebanese designers and promote their work, selecting four to six young designers each year.
The founder of Souk el Tayeb, Lebanon’s first farmers market, Kamal Mouzawak is the son of farmers and producers, who grew up in gardens and kitchens, tasting life, food and fruits at their source.
Having majored in graphic design, Kamal followed career paths as a food and travel writer, a macrobiotic cooking teacher, a healthy cooking TV chef – all of which led to closer engagement with achieving social and environmental transformation.
Since its first days in 2004, Souk el Tayeb’s vision was to celebrate food and traditions that unite communities, promoting small-scale farmers and the culture of sustainable agriculture. Today, Souk el Tayeb is an institution that includes a weekly farmers’ market, regional festivals, education and awareness programs and the latest project of Tawlet, the farmers’ kitchen.