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the challenge: No purchasing items of personal adornment* for a full year. *clothes, shoes, accessories, jewelry, make-up etc.how I intend to do it: Inventory items already owned.Assess…
The tide may be turning at Dubai Fashion Week as Capital Marketing has joined forces with Cranberry Middle East and International Fashion Innovators. Local fashion media outlets were…
Any visitor descending on Dubai this March would notice that a city hosting Art Dubai, the Sikka Art Fair and gallery nights held in art hubs like…
1. DFW is NOT an international fashion Week on par with the most western cities. Each season of Dubai Fashion Week I attend at least three shows…
As Dubai Fashion Week quickly approaches I find myself asking “Has the UAE reached its carrying capacity for fashion?” In Dubai we don’t typically practice restraint or…
thestraythread.com is the proud owner of the ipad 2, which we’ll be hitting the streets with to gather more candidates for the thread collective, posting more real time…
Submission Deadline: April 4, 2011 Show Date: May 21, 2011 6pm and 8pm Afterparty @ Media One Hotel This is a call out Dubai-based designers, models, make-up…
Music often serves as a major source of inspiration for many artists and designers and since fresh, non-commercially driven music is hard to come by in the…
Wowza! In the last 2 years the Gulf fashion blogisphere has exploded from a handful of sites to easily over 30. I am pretty diligent in my…
Volunteering for the Arab Modern Art Museum in Doha, which wasn’t much more than a couple of villas storing over 6000 works of art, reminded me what…
The world has seen many changes in the field of fashion in the last one hundred years. The unprecedented growth of the industry has altered tastes, ideals,…
I had the great fortune of visiting the Venice Biennale to experience the first ever UAE Pavilion and being a country adept at superlatives it was also…
I got a tip about a great resource for architects and designers available in London called Material Lab so I checked it out on Friday morning. It…
Ethical Fashion is an umbrella term to describe ethical fashion design, production, retail, and purchasing. The Victoria and Albert Museum hosted a debate with Safia Minney, founder…
‘Ignorance to apathy’ is a large part of the struggle with this whole Green Movement. There is a lot of hype surrounding buzz words like natural, organic,…
October 2009 was my first fashion season in Dubai. It set the bar in terms of what to expect and how to approach the local industry with…
This month is all about fashion in the UAE. To kick things off WHO'S NEXT PREMIERE CLASSE IN DUBAI showcased 200 designers formerly unknown in the UAE.…
There has been a steady stream of blogger mentions in the weekly rags and fashion magazines as of late and I for one am stoked. It is…
Cruising through the city of Amsterdam at night is a great way to scope out a city, especially one as crowded as this. Between the human, bike…
What a day! I spent my morning with German artist Alexander Wolff for a quick bite and a visit to his West Berlin studio. There is something…
Upon returning to Dubai after euro romp ’09 I took a look at my school holidays and decided to head back to either Amsterdam or Berlin as…
I have to hand it to Sheena Matheiken for her ingenuity and perseverance. the fashionista is on day 255 of 365 of wearing the same little black dress.…
The following are three films documenting my final comprehensive project of my undergraduate degree in art history/visual art degree at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA in…
I headed out to Dubai Fashion Fiesta at the Dubai Exhibition Center on Monday the 22nd of June to check the talent that had descended from abroad.…
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