One Last Thing: Sarah Hermez on room service, bad music and hating questionnaires

The National · Nasri Atallah · 2026-11-02 10:41 UTC

Lebanese designer and co-founder of Creative Space Beirut brings her dry wit to our questionnaire

Sarah Hermez has spent more than a decade proving that fashion can be a vehicle for something greater.

A Parsons graduate, the Lebanese designer and educator returned home and, in 2011, co-founded Creative Space Beirut, a tuition-free fashion school created to give talented young people access to an industry that might otherwise have remained closed to them.

The journey has not been straightforward. Hermez has kept the school going through Lebanon’s economic collapse, the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 Beirut port explosion and regional wars.

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