Tania Fares is a Lebanese fashion writer based in London with homes in Lebanon and

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, United States. In 2011, she founded and co-chaired, with Sian Westerman, the BFC Fashion Trust, a charity supported by the

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. In 2018, she co-founde
Fashion Trust Arabia
with her co-chair, Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, which supports fashion designers in the

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region. In 2021, she became a co-chair of th
BFC Foundation
alongside Narmina Marandi. In 2022, Tania co-founde
Fashion Trust U.S
alongside Laura Brown
Anne Crawford

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Samira Nasr
an
Karla Welch

Early life

Fares was born in Lebanon but grew up in Paris, where an uncle introduced her to the city's art and museums. She held an internship with

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Writing

Fares is a frequent contributor to ''

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''. She and

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co-authored ''London Uprising: Fifty Fashion Designers, One City'' (Phaidon, 2017: ). She and Krista Smith co-authored ''Fashion in LA'' (Phaidon 2019: ).

Personal life

Fares resides in Los Angeles, Beirut, Paris, and London. In Lebanon, she lives in a home in the mountains above Beirut, designed by

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* * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Fashion journalists Lebanese company founders Lebanese women company founders 21st-century Lebanese businesspeople 21st-century Lebanese businesswomen Lebanese women journalists {{Lebanon-bio-stub