Inside the stunning Lebanon home of Tania Fares:
. Not far from a 1970s Paul Evans modular sofa is a Phoenician terra-cotta figure from about 350 BC, along with a rare Hubert le Gall coffee table and Louis XVI chairs that came from Fares’s mother’s apartment in Paris.
The surprise is that Fares furnished the house almost 15 years ago, back when many of these disparate pieces were far less coveted than they are now—and when the very idea of bringing them all together under one roof was considered outré in this part of the world. Fares had no help from a decorator, adding or subtracting a Campana Brothers chair here, a Nada Debs side table there.
That philosophy has been serving Fares well, particularly in her home base of London, where she has lived since 2002. Although she and her husband, the Beirut-born financier Fares Fares, and their two sons make regular trips to Lebanon, for the past few years Tania has been focusing her time and energy on the British fashion world. As cofounder of the Fashion Trust, the charitable arm of the British Fashion Council , she is giving a much-needed boost to an entire generation of designers.
For the designers, the benefits are obvious. While other fashion grant programs, like the LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers, select one main winner each year, the Fashion Trust’s advisory committee likes to spread the love around, choosing about 10 recipients annually. In 2016, Huishan Zhang, the Chinese-born alum of the Christian Dior Haute Couture atelier, used his grant to pave the way for his first store in London; Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida invested in their online operations.
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