Maie Salameh Couture

Paris 2024

Dressing
Our Team
at the
Olympics

Ceremonial garments made for arrival, procession, and the public memory of a team.

Palestinian Olympic delegation wearing ceremonial garments at the Olympic rings

A uniform can become a national memory.

01 / The Delegation

Tatreez, keffiyeh, and national color carried into ceremony.

The work moves between garment and gesture: made to be worn by a team, seen in procession, and remembered in public images.

Palestinian delegation waving flags during the Olympic parade

02 / Public Cloth

In a crowd, the garments become legible from afar: red embroidery, white ground, black line, green field.

Women wearing embroidered ceremonial garments for Palestine

Seen
from
afar.

White shirt with embroidered Palestinian motifs

03 / Detail

Small motifs become a language of distance, place, and return.

Palestinian Olympic team garments photographed at the Olympic rings

The Olympic rings turn the project into a threshold: heritage dress entering a global frame without losing its own rhythm.

Palestinian athlete in ceremonial dress with embroidered chest panel

04 / Opening Ceremony

At night, the flag becomes the scale. The garment sits beneath it, close to the body, close to the story.

Palestinian flag carried during the Olympic opening ceremony
Palestinian delegation entering the Olympic ceremony stage

Cloth
becomes
presence.

Palestinian flag leading the team during the Olympic ceremony

Final Plate

A procession, a flag, a team. The design leaves the studio and enters collective memory.