By Mariam Khafagy

We’re super excited for the Vogue Fashion Dubai Experience! This night of fashion fabulousness will include fashion shows, interactive experiences, celebrity appearances, and SO many opportunities to shop!

Make sure you head to the catwalk, which will feature four designers from the Gulf: Qatari [...]

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Fashion Forward is happy to announce the following inspiring talks and panel discussions created in partnership with Dubai Design District. d3 Fashion Talks is led by global role models and experts.

We encourage press and visitors to visit the registration desk at the venue up to three hours prior to the event to obtain invites [...]

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Fashion critics and journalists should be allowed to publish critical and substantial commentary on fashion shows without brands banning them from runway shows, says Colin McDowell, a member of the recently launched BoF 500.

Cathy Horyn and Suzy Menkes sitting front row | Source: theluxechronicles.com

LONDON, United Kingdom — The relationship between fashion houses [...]

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El-Khayyat Center

Jeddah’s Al-Khayyat Center is located on main Tahliya street and is home to the world’s biggest upscale designer brands like Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Dior, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana to name a few. A brand NEW El-Khayyat Center Khalida is under construction on Sari and Amir Sultan Street [...]

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By Mariam Khafagy

Every year, brand management firm Interbrand announces its list of the top 100 most valuable brands in the world and for the first time ever, a fashion brand has made the list! Louis Vuitton now reigns as not only the most valuable fashion brand but also as one of [...]

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This second collaboration from Vans and Liberty Art Fabrics will be hitting Vans online and retail stores and the iconic Liberty shop in London this October, but why wait until they’re available to start picking out which styles you’re going to shop? We’re keen on the red and blue Liberty Hera peacock print on [...]

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By Marriam Mossalli

Once reserved for edgy French editorials and supermodels on their days off, sheer pieces have now made their way to the “real world.” Mullet skirts and crop tops have become the national blogger uniform. Sheer maxi dresses with opaque minis underneath are now a staple in every twenty-something’s wardrobe. And [...]

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By SUZY MENKES Published: September 24, 2013

The Art of Alaïa: An exhibition of the acclaimed designer’s work will be the first show in the City of Paris’s newly refurbished fashion museum. Photo credit: Benedicte Kurzen for the International Herald Tribune

PARIS — “It is all those years of work — [...]

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By SUZY MENKES Published: September 23, 2013

The milliner Stephen Jones has created an exhibition to showcase the hundreds of hats collected by the legendary Italian Vogue editor Anna Piaggi.

MILAN — “My hat is personal. It is what contains the soul, the feeling, the sensation that moves this little world around,” the legendary [...]

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By Marriam Mossalli

Anna Wintour and Selena Gomez

First it was Miley Cyrus on Harper’s Bazaar US and now rumors of Selena Gomez on Vogue?! The fashion world is either on bath salts, or its official: Anna Wintour has become completely senile!

The two shaded-ladies were snapped by paparazzi, as they headed into [...]

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