beirut tailoring academy
A TUITION-FREE SCHOOL OF BESPOKE
SUSTAINING LEBANESE HERITAGE, EMPOWERING VULNERABLE YOUTH, AND RAISING THE VALUE OF LEBANESE TAILORING AND ITS TAILORS
Beirut Tailoring Academy (BTA) IS A QUINTESSENTIALLY SARTORIAL tuition-free school of bespoke offering three intensive tailoring programmes for youth AND YOUNG PERSONS hailing from disadvantaged socio-economic conditions.
BASED IN BEIRUT, BTA will bespeak a versatile environment that supports the revival of Lebanese sartorial tailoring, tailoring practices, and youth- and tailor-empowerment through the nurturing of a seamless network of students and Lebanese tailors whom the academy hires to become its in-house teachers;
Through practical, theoretical, and experiential approach to bespoke making, and an extensive support system from contributors in the fashion sector and bespoke experts, BTA tasks itself with engineering a tailoring ecosystem that promises its beneficiaries the tools necessary to navigate the folds of complex socio-political and economic conditions while maintaining and developing an enduring artisanal practice.
FREE-OF-CHARGE VOCATIONAL TRAINING →
SUPPORT SYSTEM for tailors
MASTER-TAILOR PROGRAMME
TROUSER MAKING PROGRAMME
SHIRT MAKING PROGRAMME
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THE CITY’S FABRIC
A TAILORED SILHOUETTE SEAMLESSLY SET AGAINST THE SURFACE OF THE CITY FABRIC AND THE FOLDS OF ITS HISTORY