Rhosus

A collection inspired by the rebuilding effort after the devastating 2020 Explosion in Beirut. Almost three years ago, a tragic explosion in Beirut killed over 200 people, injured more than 7,500 and left about 300,000 homeless. Born and living in Canada, but originally from Lebanon, I have always been attached to my home country. Through this collection, I want to somehow contribute by raising awareness of the beautiful effort, the people of Lebanon volunteering, hand-in-hand, to rebuild the city. The strength in them taking their destructed homes and reconstructing them, is the real meaning of courage. The sunrise has always been an inspiration for peace and hope, and through this metaphor, I want to perceive the negative and make a positive outcome from it. Through appropriating the story of the abandoned ship in Beirut 2013, and the collapse of the Port's grain silos, I deconstructed fabric and yarn and reconstructed them to create the symbol of new beginnings to the life of the sailors and the people of Lebanon.