“A gown is not clothing. It is the memory of a day — made tangible.”
Rima Malaeb · Founding Couturière
Rima Malaeb opened the Maison in September 2012 with six seamstresses, a borrowed sewing machine, and three commissioned gowns. Thirteen years later, the Tripoli atelier remains a place where time slows — where silk is cut on the bias, lace is laid by hand, and every gown is numbered, signed, and released in limited editions of no more than twelve.
“A gown is not clothing. It is the memory of a day — made tangible.”
Rima Malaeb opens the Maison in Beirut with a handful of seamstresses and a single sewing machine, taking private commissions from a small Azmi Street atelier.
The Maison presents its first dedicated bridal collection — eighteen gowns shown privately to regional press and stylists.
The signature service is formalised — every gown can be bought, rented, or customised, bringing couture within reach of a new generation of brides.
Maison Rima moves into its current flagship on Azmi Street, Azmi Street — a two-floor atelier with a private salon for appointments.
The FW26 collection — the Maison's most ambitious to date — is shown at the Tripoli atelier to an invited audience of thirty-four brides, press and friends of the house.
Every Maison Rima gown is hand-embroidered in the Tripoli atelier. Our embroiderers — some trained at the Lesage school in Paris, others by the masters of the Lebanese bridal tradition — work with seed pearls, glass beads, silver threads, and hand-cut sequins sourced from a single supplier in Bologna.
Our lace is woven on 19th-century Leavers looms at the last working lace mill in Calais-Caudry, by craftsmen whose fathers wove for Balenciaga. One metre of lace requires three to five hours on the loom — a speed unchanged since 1884.
The atelier is open by appointment. Rima welcomes every bride personally — for a fitting, a sketch, a conversation over tea.
Take a gown home as yours. Fitted in the atelier, altered to measure for your day.
Wear a gown from the collection for your wedding or event, then return it to us. All alterations included.
Describe the gown of your dreams. Rima sketches it for you, then builds it from first muslin to final hem.
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