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Dubai Fashion Week to return in September

Dubai Fashion Week (DFW), co-founded by D3 and the Arab Fashion Council, has announced it will return for spring/summer 2025, ahead of New York Fashion Week from September 1 to 7. The preliminary SS25 schedule features more than 30 established and emerging designers from France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia,...

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Kate Spade New York debuts café concept in Dubai

American fashion brand Kate Spade New York has debuted its first-ever global café concept within Bloomingdale’s at Dubai Mall. The café concept has been designed to bring to life Kate Spade New York’s signature brand codes while offering customers an enhanced lifestyle experience with a menu featuring drinks and branded treats. Open until June...

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Dubai Future Foundation launches luxury retail accelerator

The Dubai Future Foundation has teamed up with Swiss luxury conglomerate Richemont to invite tech start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs from around the world to participate in its new Future of Luxury Retail accelerator programme. In a statement, the Dubai Future Foundation said it is looking for innovators and entrepreneurs across two challenges to...

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Michael Kors to show in Dubai in December

American designer label Michael Kors, which was recently acquired by luxury fashion group Tapestry, the parent company of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman, has announced it will present a complete collection catwalk show outside of New York for the first time in Dubai. Michael Kors will present an exclusive catwalk showcase in Dubai on...

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Chanel to show 2022 cruise show in Dubai

Chanel is taking its cruise show on the road to Dubai for 2022. The show will take place on November 2, and is actually a repeat collection show. Chanel’s cruise 2022 collection was first unveiled this past May in the South of France at the Carrières de Lumières limestone quarries in the village of Les Baux-de-Provence. This marks the second...

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Hong Kong: most targeted market for international retailers in 2017

Hong Kong is the place to be for retailers exploring foreign markets. For the third year in a row, the region has scored the top spot on an annual list of most targeted markets for international retailers, made by real estate investment firm CBRE. A total of 85 international retailers have entered Hong Kong’s market for the first time last year,...

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Arab Fashion Week eschews the abaya with resort-couture

As the abaya witnesses a global resurgence, the sixth edition of Arab Fashion Week opened Wednesday with fallen angels, Rococo corsets, cupcake headbands and nary a kaftan in sight. Billed as an official fashion week alongside the famed Paris, Milan and London shows, the Arab edition of fashion week is the sole event dedicated entirely to...

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International Apparel and Textile Fair 8th Edition brings global textile industry to Dubai

DUBAI, April 2018 – The 8th edition of the bi-annual event of International Apparel and Textile Fair (IATF) had received an overwhelming response from the apparel and textile manufacturers in the country and worldwide. The three-day event that took place from 24th to 26th April 2018 was inaugurated by H.E Butti Saeed Al Ghandi, Second...

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International Apparel and Textile Fair gears up to bring forth design & innovation in the UAE with its April 2018 edition

The November 2017 edition of International Apparel and Textile Fair (IATF) proved to be grand success, making apparel and textile manufacturers from around the globe look forward to the highly anticipated 8th edition due to take place in 24th,25th,26th April 2018. The three-day event that took place from 1st to 3rd November 2017 was inaugurated...

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Little women stand tall at Dubai fashion show

Like all working mums, Colleen Theriault has her hands full with her four-year-old son and a full-time career as head baker at a patisserie in the US state of North Carolina. But the 24-year-old is also an advocate for a budding movement that is breaking into the international fashion scene. Its models, like their initiative, are small but...

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Arab Fashion Week brings unisex minimalism to Dubai

Designers, buyers, and influencers have descended on Dubai for Arab Fashion Week, a five-day event dedicated to ready couture and resort wear for women, men and those who refuse a label. The show opened Tuesday night with Jordanian-Canadian sensation Rad Hourani, known for his unisex designs, Palestinian-American Jenanne Filat and her menswear...

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Syrian refugee tent transformed into dress

Once home to a family of Syrian refugees, a UN tent has found a new life as a dress still bearing the marks and stains of its past. "Dress for Our Time", the brainchild of fashion designer Helen Storey, has turned a discarded tent from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan into a hooded dress featured on stage at the Glastonbury Festival and in the...