Fashion career profile
Rami Kadi
Rami Kadi is a Lebanese-American couturier whose Beirut-based maison combines detailed handwork with experiments in fashion technology. He graduated from ESMOD Beirut in fashion design in 2008 and gained early professional experience working with Lebanese designer Rabih Kayrouz. Kadi opened his first atelier in Beirut in 2011, began showing collections during Paris’s official fashion weeks in 2014 and presented his first Paris Fashion Week runway show in 2019. His practice includes couture, made-to-measure work and digital experimentation: the house describes a 2020 fashion cyber-show centered on environmental issues and a 2022 couture NFT collection developed with AI. The United Nations Environment Programme appointed him Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Sustainable Fashion in West Asia from 2020 to 2022. In January 2025 he expanded into visual art with the collection Highway to Heaven. The profile separates these dated projects from a generic claim that his work is “sustainable”: the specific source-backed environmental and digital initiatives are named, and the ambassador role is shown as concluded rather than current.
- Role
- Founder & Creative Director, Rami Kadi
- Nationality
- Lebanese
- Age
- 40
- Maison Rami Kadi — Founder and Creative Director2011–End not documented · status not documented
- Education: ESMOD Beirut, fashion design, 2008A profile in Executive Magazine records Kadi's graduation from ESMOD Beirut in 2008. · Executive Magazine
- Early career: Worked with Rabih KayrouzThe 2017 profile describes Kadi's work with Kayrouz after graduation and before launching his own house. · Executive Magazine
- Maison founded: Beirut atelier, 2011Maison Rami Kadi says it began in Beirut in 2011. · Maison Rami Kadi
- Paris Fashion Week: Collections presented from 2014The official maison chronology dates its Paris fashion-week presentations to 2014. · Maison Rami Kadi
- Runway debut: Paris Fashion Week, January 2019The house dates its first Paris Fashion Week runway show to January 2019. · Maison Rami Kadi
- UN appointment: Regional Goodwill Ambassador, 2020–2022UNEP identifies the role and its end year. · United Nations Environment Programme
- 2008 — Graduates from ESMOD BeirutStudies fashion design and gains early experience working with Rabih Kayrouz.
- 2011 — Opens his Beirut atelierMaison Rami Kadi begins in Beirut.
- 2014 — Begins Paris Fashion Week presentationsThe house starts presenting collections during the official Paris fashion-week calendar.
- 2019 — Presents first Paris Fashion Week runway showThe house dates the runway debut to January 2019.
- 2020 — Appointed UNEP Regional Goodwill AmbassadorThe West Asia role runs through 2022.
- 2022 — Launches Lucid Algorithms couture NFT collectionThe project combines couture design, AI and digital fashion.