The highly anticipated fashion event is the latest event to hit due to the on-going conflict in the region
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Global brands and celebrities set to dazzle at Mode Dubai
The UAE’s first consumer-focused fashion week Mode Dubai will feature an impressive line of global lifestyle brands
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Dubai Fashion Week 2023: Catwalk shows, models and designers
Inaugural Dubai Fashion Week will attract key industry personnel to Dubai Design District
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Dubai’s Chalhoub Group eyes burgeoning Saudi fashion design industry
Luxury retailer is using its incubator programme to identify emerging talent in the kingdom for potential investment
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Emirati founded start-up Boksha locks in $1 million seed funding
UAE-based tech start-up Boksha is an online marketplace for independent fashion designers from the region
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Saudi Arabia eyes global catwalk success with 100 Brands initiative
Fashion Commission announces program to help local designers and brands to break into international markets
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Why Dubai is the ‘best place to be’ for design
Level Shoes sees “exponential growth” of local designers, eyes first expansion out of Dubai into Saudi by year-end
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Indian women’s wear start-up breaks into UAE as first international expansion
YourLibaas will join a long list of Indian companies that have chosen the Gulf for their maiden global expansion
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Video: Dubai is the new Milan as fashion designers head east
Fashion designers and industry professionals are flocking to Dubai, which is fast making its mark in the world of haute couture.
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Designers pay up to $22,000 for one show in Fashion Forward Dubai
Bi-annual fashion event was halted for two years after facing ‘viability’ concerns from stakeholders
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Arab fashion students are ‘weak’, says Zuhair Murad
The Arab world needs stronger fashion schools in comparison to Europe, says fashion designer
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Video: Where did the fashion investors go?
Take the glamour out of the fashion designer’s dreamy world and what is left is a business thirsty for investors. And despite 21 years in the GCC, Ali’s fortunes fare similarly. He hasn’t managed to secure a single physical retail spot beyond the Arab world.
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Malls should give local designers space, charge less rent, says Rami Al Ali
Rent fees should be in line with the size of the business, according to the fashion designer
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Where have the fashion investors gone?
Celebrated fashion designer Rami Al Ali lifts the curtain on the Arab world’s dazzling fashion industry to expose a local sector thirsty for investors
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‘Too many’ fashion designers and ‘not enough funding,’ says Rami Al Ali
Dubai designer says fashion weeks ‘will not keep the industry alive’
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Chasing fashion: How The College of Fashion and Design will help Dubai reach Vision 2021
Brand View: Billa Bhandari, Advisor at the Board of Trustees, The College of Fashion and Design (CFD), explains the role the college will play to help Dubai reach its 2021 goal.