Youssef Zogheib
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ABOUT YOUSSEF:
My first experiences in Fashion happened inside of couture salons in Beirut, Lebanon, which is where I am from.
After finishing an internship at Elie Saab, I went on to work as an apprentice at Camps de Luca in Paris, which is one of France oldest bespoke tailoring houses.
I did my undergraduate studies at Parsons Paris, where I graduated in 2024 with a BFA in Fashion Design.
After finishing my studies, I will be joining the Hermès studio in Septembre for an internship in an Assistant Designer position in the Menswear team.
ABOUT YOUSSEF's COLLECTION:
My collection takes its name from a series of photographs taken by Royal Air Force photographer John Topham in 1940 in a British military base in Gravesend, England. Those photographs were censored by the RAF for decades.
It was common for soldiers to crossdress in their time of leisure. This particular instance saw their Christmas performance interrupted by a sudden German airstrike.
Topham’s pictures immortalise the instance the instance where the boys of Gravesend ran to the the front lines to fill up the cannons, their Greatcoats hastily draped over their Babydoll dresses.
Having experienced war at a very young age and my father being in the military his entire adult life, I grew up surrounded by military uniforms.
Gravesend is my effort to deconstruct these uniforms by transforming their cut, taking inspiration by the the post-war couture shapes of Balenciaga in the 1950s.
I wanted to imagine a uniform for my own army, derived from my values and sense of beauty as a queer man growing up in a soldier’s world.
