88% matchSelf-Portrait
Guipure lace occasion dresses at a similar price point
What changes: Wholesale-heavy global brand rather than DTC-first, no bridal focus
Brand profile
Nadine Merabi
Manchester-based occasionwear label known for embellished jumpsuits, party dresses and bridal, sold direct-to-consumer with a London flagship store.
ManchesterOrigin
WomenswearFocus
Quiet luxuryStyle
$$$$Price
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What to know about Nadine Merabi
Built for events, not daily wear
The range is occasionwear: embellished jumpsuits, sequin, feather and lace-trimmed dresses, tailored sets and a bridal line, with denim added more recently.
Design starts with the fabric
Nadine Merabi, who is self-taught, works fabric-first and the team samples in-house, which is where the embellishment and tailoring detail at this price comes from.
Direct-to-consumer, grown through celebrity placement
The label scaled via celebrity and social-media exposure, selling mainly online to the US and Europe from a Manchester base plus a London flagship on South Molton Street.
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Brand facts
MERABI, the label founded by self-taught British-Lebanese designer Nadine Merabi, makes occasionwear centred on embellished jumpsuits, sequin, feather and lace-trimmed dresses, tailored sets and a bridal line, with a newer denim range. Merabi designs fabric-first and the team samples in-house. The business is headquartered in Manchester, runs a London flagship on South Molton Street, and sells direct-to-consumer online with distribution across the US and Europe. It grew through celebrity and social-media placement, and increasingly trades under the shortened MERABI name.
- Founded
- 2015
- Origin
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Made in
- UK
- Price
- $$$$
- Focus
- Womenswear
- Facts checked
- August 2026
- Styles
- Quiet luxury, Minimalist / Contemporary, Y2K