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We cover what’s new and what’s hot in the world of fashion – from the unveiling of new collections by local and global designers to the latest trends that are taking the style community by storm.
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Michael Kors has announced the third installment of its Kors Collaboration series, featuring British model and muse Amber Le Bon. The DJ/model/musician, 23, is the daughter of Simon Le Bon, lead singer of Duran Duran, and model Yasmin Le Bon (née Parvaneh), who walked in many Michael Kors shows throughout the ‘80s.
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Each season as fashion inspires, excites and enthralls the style-conscious aficionados, Splash tugs at the season’s trends to showcase a collection that is talk-worthy. As the SS’13 Splash catwalk at Madinat Arena came alive with sleeker, more functional and minimalist leaning wardrobe inspirations for both men and women, more than 3000 fashion enthusiasts became part of the changing face of fashion.
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Hot off the Lanvin runway and into the closets of presumably every other fashion follower is the Parisian maison’s Arpege evening clutch. Designed in tribute to Lanvin’s 1927 fragrance of the same name, the velvet-lined case hugs the iconic shapes of the black ball bottle designed by Armand Albert Rateau.
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Bali Barret, the artistic director in charge of the Hermès women’s universe, has invited Rei Kawakubo, creator of the Comme des Garçons house, to lend her personal vision to the Hermès scarf. This unexpected encounter has produced two collections, each released in limited edition: one, called ‘Black and White’, will be available exclusively in the Comme des Garçons shops in Paris, New York and Tokyo. The other, named ‘Colour’, will be reserved for the Dover Street Market in London and Tokyo.
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Sunglass Hut, the leading global sunglass retailer, has unveiled Global Brand Ambassador Georgia May Jagger and her boyfriend, model and musician Josh McLellan, as the leading faces of its 2013 Valentine’s Day campaign. For the campaign creative, Sunglass Hut wanted to showcase a real relationship filled with love and heartfelt moments that truly captures the essence of Valentine’s Day.
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Online luxury fashion retailer Net-a-Porter.com has added another must-have label to its list of designers with the arrival of Vika Gazinskaya’s avant-garde Spring/Summer 2013 creations.
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Dubai is joining the league of global fashion capitals by hosting, for the first time in the Middle East, the acclaimed ‘Vogue Fashion Dubai Experience’ in October 2013.
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It seems like a very long shot, but just in case any of our readers would for any reason find themselves lost in the Big Boys Toys Exhibition, an expo of gadgets, cars and all those confusing, button-covered things men go crazy for, here’s something to make your visit there a little more rewarding.
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COS (Collection of Style), the slightly more upmarket brand in the H&M Group’s umbrella of fashion brands, is set to expand its presence in the Middle East with the opening of its first store in Dubai this coming Spring 2013, following the label’s successful entry in Kuwait at The Avenues.
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Following the back-to-basics, celebration-of-heritage theme I Love Classics (other people would read it I Heart Classics, but that’s just bad English), Burberry showed its Burberry Prorsum Autumn/Winter 2013 menswear collection in Milan earlier today. Guests included British musician Tinie Tempah, British DJ Greg James as well as British actors Harry Treadaway and Luke Treadaway.
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