JUNE, 2026
COVER STORY
GEORGES HOBEIKA THE LOVE OF FAMILY, DESIGN AND UNDERSTANDING
LITTLE ISLAND A NEW TOPOGRAPHY FOR NEW YORK CITY
POETIC COMPLICATIONS VAN CLEEF AND ARPELS’S COLLECTION ON NATURE AND ASTRONOMY
GASTRONOMY, DRAMA, GASTRONOMY, DRAMA, ART, ART, AND SPECTACULAR AND SPECTACULAR VISUALS VISUALS
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Georges Hobeika
The love of family, design and understanding
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by Robyn Tucker-Peck
ur World in Beauty features center on love, artistry, and passion. We are H[FLWHG WR KLJKOLJKW ZKDW ORYH VLJQLƓHV in fashion design and what can be achieved through collaboration. This month, we honor a relationship that started at birth. Georges Hobeika, a couturier of instinct and mastery, is an architect of elegance. He founded the Maison in 1995 with a strong commitment to excellence, honing his skills in Beirut before presenting his collections in Paris, the pinnacle of haute couture. Jad Hobeika, Co-Creative Director, represents the next chapter of the Maison— continuing its legacy and evolving its vision. Raised in the atelier, he was immersed in couture’s language from childhood, absorbing its precision, discipline, DQG SRHWU\ -RLQLQJ RIƓFLDOO\ LQ KH RIIHUV D modern perspective grounded in deep respect for craftsmanship. Maison Georges Hobeika is a haven of haute couture where tradition and innovation blend to create garments of poetic beauty. Originating in Beirut and now featuring a Parisian showroom and a worldwide clientele, the Maison is renowned for its exceptional craftsmanship and savoir-faire. Every piece is treated as a work of art, with gowns that play with light and texture—hand-embroidered arabesques shimmer like stars, and draping is sculpted with haute joaillerie precision.
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Georges Hobeika Couture Printemps-Été 2026 L’AMOUR collection conveys the dialogue: “Why did you create me?” “So that you may love.” “Why must I love?” “So that you may understand.” -XQH
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Embroidery goes beyond decoration; it is a form of artistic expression, meticulously woven by master artisans, with each stitch carrying heritage and respect. Beyond a couture house, Maison Georges Hobeika is a guardian of craftsmanship, an atelier of excellence, and a global symbol of haute couture. Each collection is a tribute to elegance, each stitch a testimony to artistry, each creation a piece of couture’s everlasting soul.
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“We gather you in this sacred place not to keep this truth within these walls, but to send you back into the world carrying it. What you understand here must live in your hands, in your choices. Love is not something you contemplate. Love is not something you contemplate. It is a gift, shared again and again, in both grand and quiet gestures. Especially in the quiet ones.” Those sitting next to you in this church, the stranger you will pass tomorrow, the one who has hurt you, the one you have failed: they are all asking the same question you once asked: why am I here? And words cannot hold your answer. It exists in how you meet their eyes, how you offer your presence, how you
choose tenderness over indifference. This is what it means to be human. To keep reaching across the distance, to keep trying. To love even when you are tired, even when you doubt, even when no one is watching. In this lies all grace. FHOHEUDWHV WKLUW\ \HDUV RI 0DLVRQ *HRUJHV Hobeika—honoring its heritage, craftsmanship, and creative excellence. Starting as a small atelier in Beirut, it has grown into a worldwide couture house, where artistry and innovation GHƓ QH PRGHUQ HOHJDQFH /RRNLQJ DKHDG WKH Maison stays committed to the pursuit of beauty, carrying forward the dream that started three decades ago. -XQH