Juman Malouf (born 5 December 1975) is a Lebanese costume designer, illustrator and author.
Early life and education
Malouf was born on 5 December 1975 in
Beirut, Lebanon. She is the daughter of Lebanese novelist
Hanan al-Shaykh.
She was six months old when her family fled the Lebanese Civil War to
London. They spent two years in London before moving to
Saudi Arabia, where her father, construction engineer Fouad Malouf, was based. They spent six years in
Khobar, before moving back to London.
Malouf attended Brown University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art and Art History. She later attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in set and costume design.
Career
After graduation, Malouf started her knitwear line Charlotte Corday. She also worked as an assistant to the stylist Yvonne Sporre, before turning her full attention to illustration.
Malouf's first book, The Trilogy of Two, is a children's fantasy novel published in 2018 by Pushkin Press.
Personal life
Malouf met her romantic partner, film director
Wes Anderson, in 2009. The couple had their first child in 2016. They live in London and occasionally New York.
Malouf voiced a minor role in Anderson's
Fantastic Mr. Fox. Malouf and Anderson also co-curated the exhibition
Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and other Treasures, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
later published as a book.
Her brother is Tarek Malouf, author and founder of Hummingbird Bakery.
