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Article: A Fashion Show in Beirut, Annotated; Two Millennia of Paradox March Down the St. Georges Runway
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- The Washington Post
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- December 16, 1990
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War, Peace and Display
One of Beirut's fashion designers, Loulwa Abdel-Baki, spent four
days last month clearing the devastated St. Georges Hotel lobby of
rubble and rats, then presented her fall/winter collection there.
Some 20 models paraded down a makeshift runway, while a sound
system connected to a generator outside pumped in rock music so loud
that many of the onlookers thought the charred and damaged ceiling
might collapse on them. The designer intentionally left some of the
war's rubble in place as a sign, in the words of one attending
Beiruti, of "what we have lost."
According to the Associated Press, Adbel-Baki intended the show
to symbolize Beirut's rebirth after 15 years of ...
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