Elie Saab Releases Spring 2023 Couture Collection

Lebanese couturier Elie Saab presented his Spring/Summer 2023 couture collection at Paris Haute Couture Week.

The regal and evocative collection, dubbed “Golden Dawn”, featured 69 looks.

Sheer diaphanous cloth floated around the runway in Le Marais’ Carreau du Temple.

Saab called it “an indulgent escape from the ordinary.”

Haute couture is an artisanal tradition invented by English designer Charles Frederick Worth in the 1870s. It involves intricate, time-consuming sewing, use of unusual fabrics, and luxurious embellishments such as rare feathers and semi-precious stone beading — and is exorbitantly priced.

This season, the Lebanese designer used the Thai kingdom as a springboard for the highly embellished yet delicate collection.

The most beautiful gowns were sometimes deceptively simple, where the sumptuous material -- like one blue satin sash rippling asymmetrically across the shoulder -- could speak for itself.

The pieces featured a palette of creams and pastels and were heavy on embellishments and texture. 

Saab’s models were escorted by men dressed in equally sumptuous attire. The designer presented lavishly decorated suits, tailcoats, and caftans, all cut in ivory featherlight cashmere and wools. Chez Saab, vanitas is definitely a virtue, regardless of gender.

“Elie Saab Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2023 is an indulgent escape from the ordinary, into an ever-present dawn of momentous festivity. The collection is an opulent expression of an endless day, where sheer beauty and magic wed in never-ending union,” read a statement in the press release.