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Ottoman fez gets face-lift in Beirut

Two Lebanese designers are collaborating to reinvent the traditional tarboosh and give it a 21st-century look.
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Lebanese designer and entrepreneur Elias El Haddad wants to breathe new life into the tarboosh, the traditional red flat-topped hat worn by men during the Ottoman era.

In 2016, he launched his new line Boshies and since has been collaborating with fashion designer Diane Ferjane. The two designers now work on a line that would modernize Middle Eastern casual wear.

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