Born and raised in Beirut to an Armenian-Lebanese family, Maribelle discovered her love for design through watching her grandmother work - crocheting, tailoring, and sewing by hand and with machinery with tireless dedication. “She used to spend hours working by hand… with passion, despite the long hours and the tired hands,” an experience that became her greatest source of motivation to enter the field. After high school, Maribelle chose design as her path, seeing it as “a way of expressing oneself… through a vision, without having to explain or say a word.” Her creative process often begins with the natural world - such as the seasons, studying nature’s transformations, from blooming landscapes to the metamorphosis of a butterfly, and translating them into texture, color, and form. Maribelle sees CSB as the foundation where her ideas can meet technical mastery, critical thinking, and real-world preparation. She hopes to bring her own heritage into the school’s creative ecosystem, “Being Armenian and coming from a background of patterns, motifs, embroidery, carpet weaving and garments… this is what I want to bring into CSB - cultural boldness, new patterns, vibrant expressions.”