You’ve seen it all over the past week – virtually all publications writing about the same thing over and over again, reviewing what has happened in the worlds of fashion and beauty during 2010, to make a lazy transition into the new year. Lady Gaga’s meat dress here, Carine Roitfeld’s canning from Vogue Paris there, it’s all been said. And we’re going to say it again, this time in quotes. Because who doesn’t love the Kaiser droning on innocently (and might we say cluelessly) about the flawlessness of Facebook, right?

As news of Carine Roitfeld leaving her post of 10 years as French Vogue’s editor in chief widely circulated on the web during the past weekend, we didn’t feel the need to tell Dubai’s fashion pack about it at the risk of being mistaken for a broken record with no internet access.

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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