L’Orient Le Jour featured today the career path of emerging Lebanese fashion designer, Timmy Hayek. Despite her young age (28 years), the newspaper wrote, Hayek proved her talent in the industry. Since her study and graduation in fashion design in 2012 from the UK Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, Hayek did not have a day off. She was trained by famous designer Mark Jacobs at the Paris premises of Louis Vuitton back in 2011, and later by the renowned French Charles Du Castelbajac. For her graduation project, she moved to London to gain skill-based experience with Mary Katrantzou and Alexander McQueen, Hayek told the newspaper’s reporter. To recall, in 2010 Hayek won the prize of liberal art textiles and her design was sold to the legendary British store ‘Liberty’. Hayek disclosed that she launched her first women collection, carrying her name, with Stars Fashion Forward Dubai in 2014 and opened her first boutique shop in Beirut in 2015, located in Monot Street of Ashrafieh. (L’Orient Le Jour, June 24, 2017)