Elie Tahari
Elie Tahari is an IranianAmerican luxury fashion designer of luxury readytowear clothing and accessories. His company, is a global luxury lifestyle brand headquartered in New York City with stores located throughout the world.
Tahari was born in 1952, the middle son of a Iranian Jewish couple. He has four sisters, Aliza, Diana, Shulie and Illana. He has two brothers Avraham and Yosi. The family immigrated to Israel from Iran and lived in a maabara transit camp in what is now Mevasseret Zion. In 19531957 the family went back to Iran, returning later to Israel. When his parents divorced and his father remarried, Tahari was sent to an orphanage in Rishon Lezion, later moving to Tel Aviv . The following years were spent in Kvutzat Schiller and an Israeli Air Force boarding school in Haifa.
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