Elie Saab’s spring/summer 2026 haute couture show unfolded like a fever dream of light and music, and titled “Golden Summer Nights of ’71”, it certainly wasn’t unexpected.
It was a collection steeped in nostalgia, not only for the 1970s jet-set glamour it evoked, but for Saab’s own beginnings. Born in 1964, Saab founded his atelier in Beirut in the early 1980s as a teenager, and this season felt like a return to the spirit of youth – a designer looking back at the era that first shaped his imagination.
