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Reem Acra (Arabic: ريم عكرا) is a fashion designer born in Beirut, Lebanon, known for her eponymous bridal gown line and her ready-to-wear collection. Education: American University of Beirut, Fashi... Profession: fashion designer Place of birth: Beirut, Lebanon Nationality: Lebanon

Reem Acra studied at the American University of Beirut, where her parents both worked. Her mother, Nadia, worked in the family medicine department, and her father, Aftim, was a prominent and distinguished academic, professor, public health expert, and an amber collector.[2][3] She grew up with three brothers, Michael, Fadi, and Sari, in Beirut.[4][5] While a teenager, she joined the fashion club at the American University in Beirut where she graduated in 1982 with a business degree. She held a fashion show in June 1982 that attracted 2,000 people.[6] In 1986, she graduated magna cum laude from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and won the Fashion Design Department's award for her year.[7] After graduating from FIT, Acra studied at the École Supérieure des Arts et Techniques de la Mode design school in Paris.[7] Acra left Beirut in 1983, relocating to New York City, during the peak of the Lebanese Civil War.[8] Reem Acra's designs on the runway. After her studies at ESMOD in Paris, Acra took mainstream fashion design positions in Hong Kong and Taiwan. At the age of 25 she was overseeing a $30 million project, but left after seven years to start her own line in New York.[6] Acra worked as a luxury interior designer for three years before starting her own line