The Syrian Refugees Behind Lebanese Fashion | States of Undress

The Syrian Refugees Behind Lebanese Fashion | States of Undress | Refinery29

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Designers in Lebanon are world renowned for their glamorous gowns. Hailey travels to Beirut to see how Syrian refugees are using their skills to transform Lebanese haute couture.
This episode of States of Undress first aired in 2017.
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@MsAmara4 10 ай бұрын

That guy that said focus on him is rude.

@MsAmara4 10 ай бұрын

This was captivating and so intriguing

@A-V-A- 7 ай бұрын

Desperate, complex, rude, so so scared of not having his dreams realized

@Fumi007 6 ай бұрын

I'm glad they left that comment in. It showed a lot of out who he is as a man.

@parisz 6 ай бұрын

Narcissistic attitude

@ElanTee 5 ай бұрын

Perhaps he should focus on being a decent employer and person. What an arrogant twat.

@sxt4447 4 ай бұрын

Please bring back Hailey and this show! We need her and her perspective on the fashion industry around the world. P.s. the designer who said “my goal is for everyone to like me” is not very likable lol

@hanikaram3351 2 ай бұрын

he also hurt the feelings of his employee the Syrian Lady when he told the translator to direct all the questions for himself since he was the designer for you could tell from her face that she was affected by his arrogance however hailey told all the employees a nice meeting you all and gave a nice glance to the Syrian Lady

@kmh9232 6 ай бұрын

It always blows my mind how someone could be celebrating a birthday on one side of the world and on the other side someone is going through the effects of war in their country. This world so heavy.

@silviadesoto362 5 ай бұрын

Love her way of entertwining fashion, politics, and humanity. Great job Hailey❤

@mayafawaz206 10 ай бұрын

Wow, huge props to the Refinery29 team for this video. Super impressed with the reporting done on this project and accuracy in Lebanese people/history (coming from a Lebanese woman who recently had an Islamic mariage in Lebanon who also happens to be a journalist lol)

@antimony003 8 ай бұрын

This content was produced by Vice in 2017. Not Refinery29

@badwabbit 5 ай бұрын

@@antimony003oh shit

@badwabbit 5 ай бұрын

They have their logo pasted everywhere. Is this a sssniperwolf situation Hailey I love you please dont be fake

@aidadalatisyriatraditional6875 9 ай бұрын

Beading is and was everything in Syria. I bought Al my beaded trim in the silk Souk in Damascus but the meter. Women who needed to supplement their income took glass beading home by the kilo to creat the fine textiles and trim. As an American Syrian designer I thank this program for respecting the Syrian men and women’s contribution to this fashion industry.

@headingnorthwest 6 ай бұрын

this is truly such a wonderful show, Hailey is such a great host, someone with compasion, intelligence and cultural knowledge. Very happy that shows like these get a platform. Can't wait for more to come!

@apio388 4 ай бұрын

Sadly this show is from 2017 and they’re not making any more :(

@JanieGal16 10 ай бұрын

My childhood best friend is first generation Lebanese American, and I can attest that Lebanese people LOVE sparkle and detail. One of her two wedding dresses (yes I said two. Her husband is Korean; so when they got married they had two, traditional weddings for each of their cultures) was bedazzled to high Heaven.

@maci966 6 ай бұрын

This is the kind of fashion reporting we are missing! Please keep this up!

@farinhossain9360 6 ай бұрын

Yassin is so adorable. I hope he gets to be surrounded by nature.

@amyserenity365 10 ай бұрын

I love this series. Please continue to make more

@Mini-ge9sm 5 ай бұрын

Yes!!❤❤

@reneeolo3814 5 ай бұрын

Incredible how fashion reporting can tell us so much about the complexities of this region! I was particularly taken aback by the Hezbollah advocate/fashion designer who bragged about treating her Syrian tailor kindly, the cognitive dissonance was deafening. Thank you for trying to allow these wildly skilled, displaced people to have a voice amid the oppression and discrimination they face from their neighbours and employers.

@Suite_annamite 5 ай бұрын

Fashion has long been a socio-political expression, especially more so in a part of the world where a given haircut or beard style can give away one's ideological stance.

@JewelzG277 7 ай бұрын

Need more States of Undress. Favorite series.

@tricksagogo 10 ай бұрын

This was excellent, sad, informative, and inspiring. Thank you.

@_ZB4 7 ай бұрын

Hey; commenting for engagement because I love this series and Hailey is wonderfully empathetic and sincere as a reporter. You’re doing great work with this - push on! X

@melaniealaran6767 5 ай бұрын

amazing documentary, full of facts and empathy

@lovinglife419 5 ай бұрын

Those gowns, every single one…stunning ✨✨✨

@gretaweiss6802 10 ай бұрын

Yayy a new episode! New to me at least. I love this series so so much. It’s amazing!

@megangeustyn930 7 ай бұрын

Such a beautiful series. So informative and filled with empathy and understanding. ❤

@kiranb.5701 5 ай бұрын

Love love this series!

@hughp2879 10 ай бұрын

Learning so much from your videos. Interesting informative..truly appreciate your work. 🙏👏💟

@wendywilson-fall3973 6 ай бұрын

Excellent video!!!

@imenetrabelsi2210 6 ай бұрын

I ve been based in Lebanon for the last three years and I m sad to say that since this was filmed ( obviously before the 2019 financial crush in Lebanon) the situation of Syrian refugees is way worst today. 9 out of each 10 refugee families are living in acute poverty, children are no longer able to access schools as the lebanese state is without means to offer basic services for its citizens nor the refugees. Syrians, especially refugees, have are going through hell for over 12 years and sadely this is not likely to change anytime soon

@j23lo5 2 ай бұрын

🥹

@MRSECEA 5 ай бұрын

Please continue making this series.. Hailey is the perfect host for this.

@robertfantasticsinginggreatson 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Hailey really enjoy the video feel sad for these people war is a bad thing thanks Hailey

@TheZeyyyyy 9 ай бұрын

Very good. Your empathy added something special to this segment.

@Loveyoucr396 10 ай бұрын

Cool place!😊

@virginiamr 10 ай бұрын

Lo siento, pero en la parte en la que le dice que le hagan las preguntas a él y deje de hablar con los demás….

@iezgi 6 ай бұрын

Hailey is a great reporter. Keep these coming!

@LoverOFhopeANDcompassion 10 ай бұрын

Where did this come from. Came out in 2017 just discovered it - your drive to show us, inform us tells me youre a humble soul looking to bring pp together -

@dinomite078 6 ай бұрын

“ my dream is everyone to like me …..” dam jerk just because all the questions were being asked to him ?

@Hhhhhhh-wi1qe 5 ай бұрын

I love Lebanese dresses

@alekadelacruz8592 6 ай бұрын

I love Elie Saab and Zuhair Murad couture 😍

@LifeofMinna 6 ай бұрын

heavy... but good!

@missbodo4566 5 ай бұрын

All your videos are great. Very well done and askin what realy matters. Congratulations to the team. It make you think and know the complexity of the politics in middle east. Is very hard to be in one side or the other... never with DAESH of course!... Thank you guys!!!

@eyebyte 6 ай бұрын

And Free Palestine, Free West Asia, Free the “Middle East”, FREE US!

@Suite_annamite 5 ай бұрын

Well, to be frank, *free North Africa from the Middle East.*

@maryam_mukbang 5 ай бұрын

The dress looks even more beautiful on the journalist than it does on the original model! Gorgeous designs

@mizpike1683 5 ай бұрын

Coming to a town near you. 17:53

@chickenjoymanok1 5 ай бұрын

the syrians are craftsmen

@angelam.4670 5 ай бұрын

Not a fan of the way Farrah is taking advantage of that Syrian tailor to further her own agenda. The fashion is pretty but also a political statement, isn't it? Women's images are a political statement.

@Hhhhhhh-wi1qe 5 ай бұрын

Ohho

@raymollyraymolly722 5 ай бұрын

Lebanon has the best haute couture designers in the world and most Hollywood stars are wearing Lebanese labels.

@1stDon 4 ай бұрын

The woman at the end sitting on the couch getting her makeup done HR/MaisonRevelle/NISA/ELAN/MANA/MARA/MACK/VISILI/BOBO/SCHUBERTS/RMG

@MAYK1NG 5 ай бұрын

“Stuff” “How’s it goin’?”

@claudine6399 4 ай бұрын

Bella Baxter is Hailey ‼️‼️‼️

@nicolapattison7913 5 ай бұрын

That guy made my jaw drop, what a w''"er, who the hell is he?

@JCWong 10 ай бұрын

The female designer talks like Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows

@Suite_annamite 5 ай бұрын

Natasia Demetriou

@maysuclassroom 3 ай бұрын

Why does she need to focus on him? for being a designer? I don't understand why he said that.

@Iluvrocket 5 ай бұрын

The life of a refugee is rough, and to hire them at lower wages, then pat yourself on the back for being “so nice” is cruel. And then there’s the truth spinning to save face, like that one guy who said the curfew was a “polite suggestion.” You must think you’re a good person, because you told yourself so!

@tracymasiello1456 6 ай бұрын

I find your reporting interesting: however, to report that the conflicts in Lebanon were specifically with Israel, is not balanced reporting. Lebanon also has had conflict with Syria.

@panadocoughsyrup Ай бұрын

That was quite literally the central theme of the last half of the video, if you watched it you would know this

@MetaBassy 10 ай бұрын

Damn how many advertisings along this video..

@Zee-yu9eg 5 ай бұрын

As an Egyptian with practically a lot of Syrian brothers and sisters I am completely shocked about what is happening there to them. Try to come to Egypt we love your fashion, your food, your traditions and pretty much you are our partners in the country

@raymollyraymolly722 5 ай бұрын

Lebanon is the capital of fashion in the Mediterranean, and they have the best Hate couture designers in the world. Lebanese have their fashion expertise and don't need any help from anyone. There Syrians are learning in Lebanon about fashion, and the Lebanese are helping the Syrian refugees as much as they can. In Egypt, Syrians are suffering and Egyptians are asking them to leave. In the last 3 weeks, I've seen more than 10 Egyptian vidios on KZfaq asking Syrians to leave their country.

@hanikaram3351 2 ай бұрын

Hailey speaks Arabic , Hailey I am surprised that you are that shocked because you had a bit of knowledge about the geographical area

@raymollyraymolly722 5 ай бұрын

Nearly 3 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon and that more than the half of the Lebanese population. Lebanon is suffering .

@ozgebaybars 5 ай бұрын

In Gaziantep in 2015, I worked in refugee camp to teach Syrian children maths and English. Guess what happened in the next? I was complained about not covering my head in my own country. This is what happened when you value to people who have no knowledge about civilization.

@rasalove6669 5 ай бұрын

Do Syrians have compulsory hijab?

@Jayne-sl 5 ай бұрын

They are doing it in Sweden too.We should stop taking them

@ozgebaybars 5 ай бұрын

@@rasalove6669 In Syria, there is no sharia. People are free to wear what they want, but among Syrian refugees, a woman should wear hijab. Most of them are extremist islamists. That’s why they broke out civil war in Syria

@galialtman5916 6 ай бұрын

It disgusts me to think the female designer got the funds to open her store from the terror organization that destroyed her employee's life

@lilol8761 6 ай бұрын

?? what

@irenesara455 5 ай бұрын

The Lebanese government is a Terror organisation?

@gbcxroz3258 2 ай бұрын

So sad but that’s how the world works

@mizpike1683 5 ай бұрын

23:08 THIS. AMERICANS NEED TO STAY OUT OF PEOPLES BUSINESS.

@karenaouwad2697 5 ай бұрын

Lebanon although a tiny country but has a very broad variety. It seems to me like you only went to a specific area and specific people to show a specific image. Like everywhere in the world there is ethical clothing and unethical clothing. This reportage shows how truly the media can mislead a reality

@user-ou8sf6qq7u 6 ай бұрын

Lebanon used to be Christian and liberal

@lilol8761 6 ай бұрын

ok..

@rirri2386 5 ай бұрын

Sure bro

@Max-st8ig 5 ай бұрын

still is

@kalyaamirouche6009 5 ай бұрын

Not true, half christian. They called Lebanon the Switzerland of the Middle East because of its banking system and not because of the mountains. A banking system that made it a tax heaven for rich Middle Easterners. Lebanon was an economically “third world” country in the 60's; 70's like other coutries in Asia; Africa and south america

@user-ou8sf6qq7u 5 ай бұрын

@@kalyaamirouche6009 and what have they done to the country now?

@aaronnava2985 4 ай бұрын

😂 dont waste ur money just put a hazard suit on her. That dress is too much. She cant even walk in the hall.

@GlobalInsightsTV1 4 ай бұрын

I really feel sorry for syrians but if they followed what our prophet advised they wouldn't be in the situation they are now , the prophet s.a.w said " don't rebale against your leaders unless they prevent you from practicing your religion"

@CesarGarcia-nd5xz 6 ай бұрын

Eww covering the hair is so 1400's

@rirri2386 5 ай бұрын

Cope harder lol

@hanssolos3699 6 ай бұрын

too funny that the bride wears a body hugging gown that shows her curves......a good humble muslimah would never do that for modesty reason

@lilol8761 6 ай бұрын

not ur place to judge, a good muslim would lower their gaze 🙄

@irenesara455 5 ай бұрын

It's her and her family's choice. You stay out of it and stop lecturing muslims online. It's public humiliation

@panadocoughsyrup Ай бұрын

Stop wasting your time lecturing other people on their own lives. I was far more concerned about how she got her funding for her business from a pretty horrible political party.