Juman Malouf

Juman Malouf is a Lebanese costume designer, artist, illustrator and author.^[1]

Early life and education

The daughter of a celebrated Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, Malouf was born 1975 in Beirut, Lebanon.[1] She was six months old when her family fled the Lebanese Civil War to London. They spent two years in London before moving to Saudi Arabia, where her father, construction engineer Fouad Malouf was based. They spent six years in Khobar, before moving once again to London.^[2][2]

Malouf attended Brown University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine art and Art history. She later attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts and received an Master of Fine Arts degree in set and costume design.^[3]

Career

After graduation, Malouf started her knitwear line Charlotte Corday. She also worked as and assistant to the stylist Yvonne Sporre, before turning her full attention to illustration.[3]

Malouf's first book, The Trilogy of Two, is a children's fantasy novel published in 2018 by Pushkin Press.^[4] She worked on Trilogy for about six years, while also collaborating on Wes Anderson’s films The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom.

Personal life

Malouf met her partner, film director Wes Anderson, in 2009. The couple had their first child, Freya, in 2016. They live in London and occasionally New York.^[5] Malouf voiced a minor role in Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox. Malouf and Anderson also co-curated the exhibition Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and other Treasures, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,^[6] later published as a book.^[7]

Her brother is Tarek Malouf, author and founder of Hummingbird Bakery. [4]

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