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Badi’a al A’war became Fairuz’s dressmaker when they met in 1952, but the relationship between the two women extends far beyond the professional details of costume making. Badi’a al-A’war is a friend and confidante to Fairuz accompanying her on all her tours, local, national, and intemational, always at her side to support, to encourage, to laugh and to share the exhilaration of each performance. “I’m always with the lady,” she says. “Not for one minute do I leave her. Even when she went to the United States in 1971, I accompanied her.”
Badi’a is the last person to dress Fairuz before the singer makes her appearance on stage, her nimble fingers making adjustments until the final second, making sure that every pleat in the costume, every drape in the fabric, is in place.
