Blanka Matragi was born in former Czechoslovakia in 1953. In 1980 she left for Lebanon to live together with her husband Makram Matragi. She opened the prestigious salon „Blanka Haute Couture“ in Beirut and has become successful in selling her clothes to royal families and to wives of oil tycoons, diplomats, entrepreneurs or doctors, not only in the Middle East but also in Europe. She concentrates mainly on evening, engagement and wedding dresses.