Top 100 Arabs 2025

73. Ellie Saab

Fashion designer

Origin: Lebanon

Residence: Lebanon

Sector: culture and society

2024 Rank: 61

Saab, the man who taught himself to sew before the age of 10, is not only a designer of choice for celebrities but also dresses royalty such as Kate Middleton, Princess Rajwa Al Hussein, and Queen Rania.

His brand is now valued at $792m.

He also became the first non-Italian designer to be accepted into the Camera Nazionale della Moda, the country’s governing body for Milan Fashion Week.

In 2003, the designer was invited by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris to be a member, and he remains one of the few officially ordained haute couture labels in the world.

In January, Dubai-based real estate company SAMANA Developers unveiled the SAMANA Ocean Views interiors by ELIE SAAB project in Dubai’s Madinat Arena.

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