Lagerfeld adds designer touch to World island

DESIGNER TOUCH: Lagerfeld (pictured) has been unveiled as the first designer to collaborate with Dubai fashion island Isla Moda. (Getty Images)

Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld has been named as the first designer to collaborate with Dubai’s Isla Moda, the world’s first 'fashion island' being built on Nakheel's manmade archipelago The World.

Lagerfeld will design 80 residential homes, which will include a limited edition line for the island, the German-born designer told Grazia Middle East magazine in an interview to be published on Wednesday.

“For the fashion world this region is very important,” the designer said. “Other parts of the world can have a little [financial] crisis, there is no crisis here."

The artistic director for Chanel, whose collaborations also include Fendi and Chloe, is the first of five fashion designers to sign a contract with Dubai Infinity Holdings, the company behind the island.

Isla Moda, which is set to open in 2011 will house villas, boutiques and a 250-room Hotel Moda, as well as staging fashion shows and offering a style concierge for fashion connoisseurs.

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The World is so cooooooooooooooool!!!
Posted by debbie, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 9 July 2008 at 08:53 UAE time

I can't believe that all these glamorous people are in The World. I can't wait to go one day and live with them all.

Lagerfeld and Isla Moda
Posted by Rodney DeMott, Gay, USA on 8 July 2008 at 16:31 UAE time


Karl Lagerfeld is brilliant. It will be exciting to see how his vision manifests itself within the form of Dubai’s Isla Moda.

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