If there was one thing we would ask any vertically challenged woman to stay away from, it would be a pair of ankle boots – especially those with laces. They look scorchingly hot on long-legged slender catwalk model body types but don’t work for pretty much everybody else.

We don’t want to sound height-ist for singling out those who lack the much-needed inches by posting this. However, we just …

Hear someone say “Fashion for a Cause” and you’ll immediately think of occasional high-profile events such as Fashion for Relief where couture pieces are auctioned. Or of special tee-shirt lines launched in support of survivors of some tragic natural disaster.

These are all fine because their bottomline is to help out our less fortunate brethren, but perhaps fashion companies can go much further than seasonal events, or waiting for …

We thought our last post involving Harper’s Bazaar Arabia made an impression. But alas, this page from the title’s April 2010 issue proves otherwise. We hope this is really just a joke in reference to our piece (Yes, we like to pretend we’re important). Because this is just too painful to be real.

It’s interesting to see how UAE-based designer Aiisha Ramadan’s one-year-old blog post is resurfacing, around the time the seventh installment of the Dubai Fashion Week is going full steam ahead, in the form of a critical news item on online business title Arabian Business.

UPDATE: Since this article was published in April 2010, the Dubai Fashion Week brand has been passed on from Concept Group to Capital Marketing. Read

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Amidst all the foggy mystery that surrounds that whole buzz about Balenciaga banning Carine Roitfeld at a fashion show, something seemingly plausible surfaced, attempting to answer the biggest and most exciting why that has happened in the fashion industry in a very long time.

According to a report by Fashionista.com, master couturier Balenciaga was under the impression that Madame Roitfeld was instrumental to Max Mara copying the design of …

On Fashion Faceoff this week, La Moda Dubai’s editors give you a piece of their minds on the latest drama in Paris that involves Carine Roitfeld, French Vogue Editor-in-Chief, and Balenciaga, the French fashion house and master of all couturiers.

Jim Joquico, Editor-in-Chief, says:

Brilliant. Abso-bloody-lutely brilliant move by Balenciaga. Not that I hate Carine Roitfeld or that I work for Balenciaga, but the fact that everyone around the

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We were browsing the pages of the latest issues of all Middle East fashion magazines we’re subscribed to this morning and something caught our eyes like a mutilated corpse – something so horrible, but that which we couldn’t resist looking at. It’s something in the editor’s letter in Harper’s Bazaar Arabia’s Best Dressed 2010 supplement.

That’s a fair question to ask, considering the image below of the Asprey 1781 and the Hermes Birkin side by side which look very very much alike. We all know the deal about the Birkin: Since its introduction 20 years ago, it has been an iconic accessory among the fashion crowd for decades. It was named after British-born actress Jane Birkin, who has developed tendonitis from carrying the bag over the years.…

In preparation for Dubai Fashion Week next month, we are formally launching La Moda Dubai today. As you already know by now, we are the first and only web magazine covering high fashion and luxury lifestyle in the whole of the Middle East. We’re published in Dubai, a bustling city in Arabia which has been established as the fashion capital of the Gulf.

La Moda is here to fill …

So Jimmy Choo recently announced a line of sneakers that will come to stores in May. I am not intrigued. I’m actually a bit disappointed. Aren’t you? Then look at these and you will be.

Like that favorite pair of stilettos you wear to work everyday, these attention-seeking, uncoordinatedly colourful sneakers all carry the Jimmy Choo brand. Pretty soon the sophisticated six-inch-heel-wearing glamazon will find herself standing in a …