Co-founder Jocelyne Abdel Malak, has been President of luxury fashion house Georges Chakra since 1993. Jocelyne played a crucial role creating a business model fitting for Georges Chakra’s design aesthetic and that has paved the way for the Georges Chakra Company to develop into the international couture house that it is today.

After graduating from USJ Beirut with a degree in Business Management, Jocelyne joined the International Committee of the Red Cross as reporting war on atrocities for 3 years, moving then to Paris and then to Canada in 1978 to establish Aramex International.

Fascinated by the fashion industry since childhood, Jocelyne left Canada after meeting Georges Chakra to co-found a Beirut office for the Company in 1993. The luxury fashion brand has since then moved offices to Beirut and established a Paris office as well as point of sales in the United States. "Georges chakra runs in a world where everyone walks. And we are all running behind him trying to keep up" Jocelyne says. With two Couture shows during Paris fashion week, Jocelyne keeps pushing the luxury fashion brand into recognizing its full potential.

Onna Group, owner of Georges Chakra brand, was established in 1994 in Beirut, Lebanon. It is the extension of Georges Chakra's previous establishment in 1985. Throughout the years, Georges Chakra’s brand stood for providing the highest quality in dressmaking and modern creativity.

Since 2002, Georges Chakra has been showing his collections during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week. And in 2006, his collection appeared in the hit movie “The Devil Wears Prada” which featured actress Meryl Streep. In 2007, the company opened a showroom in Paris, situated in Le Triangle D’Or, a modern, glamorous and luxurious boudoir.

In February 2009, Onna Group launched "Edition by Georges Chakra", a luxurious ready-to-wear line for the modern, elegant and self-confident women. Its first Fall-Winter 09-10 collection was showcased as part of the official New York Fashion Week calendar to rave reviews. Since then the collection has been sold across the United States, Europe and Asia

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