Lanvin x H&M

Yep Alber Elbaz for Lanvin is the next designer to collaborate with H&M, the collection is due for Autumn!

Sound like good stuff... Let's see xx

Who's next?

When H&M decided to play with our head, launching teaser after teaser (6 in total) - it's certainly the web buzz of the moment. The intrigue is simple: who'll be the next designer to collaborate with the giant swedish chain?

One after another, some designers (with a strong foreign accent) talk about their vision of fashion and their collaboration with H&M.

Personnaly, I start to get tired of those collaboration, last ones were very disappointed and way over-priced. Really feel like just a way to sell expensive H&M quality stuff!

Bon if it's really Alber Elbaz (from Lanvin) as suspected from the video I might fall again...

Take a guess, the name will be reveal on the 9th of September...

Bon week end!

Fashion Dome

Fall Ad campaign

Listen up fashionista gals!

Today, the house of Dior re-opens its Mall of The Emirates boutique in the newly opened Fashion Dome section, 480 sqm of women’s wear, accessories, timepieces and will also present “Dior Homme”, fashion for man (love love love the sharp cut of Dior Homme!!!).

Dior Homme RTW runway

Prepare your credit card and check out the latest to-die-for 3D bag and cavalliere boots from the fall collection (on my wish list!).
Besides Dior, the new fashion extension includes other much-waited opening like Christian Louboutin 1st UAE boutique.

See you there tonight and bon shopping !!

Charity Sale @Dubai Ladies Club

"The lovely gals of Dubai Ladies Club are rallying fashion lovers to their Donate Your Bag and Accessories for charity sale, on August 28th from 8pm. "



Dubai Ladies Club members (from left) Hind Beljafla, Muna Bin Kalli, Shaikha Al Ketbi, Eman Al Mansoori. Funds raised from the August 28 sale will be dedicated to Mohammed bin Rashid Charitable Humanitarian Foundation.

Call Dubai Ladies Club on +971 4 349 9922 to arrange a complementary pick-up of your donated bag by Aramex.

photo credit Harper's Bazaar Arabia (join the Facebook group).

Jaimemoncarre.com

Hermes has launched a cool new website called J'aime Mon Carre.

Luxe French fashion house Hermes and its signature scarves are usually associated with polished, ladylike glamour. But take a look at the label's brand new website, J'aime mon Carre (I Love My Scarf) and you'll see a whole new side.



The site features colourful street style pics of hip and cool girls sporting the scarves in different ways - as turbans, headbands, belts and, of course, as scarves. They're teamed with denim and slouchy T-shirts rather than twinsets and, if you're looking for inspiration on how to wear the scarves stashed in your wardrobe, then this is the place to head.



The site isn't just there to give us sartorial ideas though. It has been launched to mark the collaboration between Hermes and uber-cool French store Colette. The two have teamed up to create a special collection of scarves that will hit Colette in September - anyone heading to Paris Fashion Week take note.

Check out the site at http://www.jaimemoncarre.com/


Text credit elleuk.com

Sweet Symphony

The hottest fashion news around town is the very soon opening of the new multibrand store Symphony in Dubai Mall.

Symphony is set to stock a diversecollection of luxury fashion brands like Christian Siriano, Luisa Beccaria, Jason Wu, Vera Wang, Ports 1961, Thakoon, Halston and many, many more. The new store will be spread over 3,000 sq ft and located in the Fashion Avenue. Symphony will also stock a range of quirky lifestyle items for the home, inspiring books and rare magazines, lomography cameras and coveted vintage designer pieces.

For the occasion, Symphony unveil their inaugural A/W 2010 new campaign shot in Dubai featuring america's next top model, Raina Hein. The inspiration of the campaign is the old and new Dubai; the past and the new; the East and the West; a symphony between opposites with the location set as the Dubai Creek.

Styling, Creative Direction and Concept: Salama Alabbar & Holly Williams
Photography: Susanne Spiel
Hair & Make-up: Sophie ChudzikowskiProduction: Capital D Studio
Model: Raina Hein

Bargain, bargain, bargain...

Ladies get behind your Macbook on the 16th of April!!

Outnet.com (the Net-a-Porter outlet online site) decided to celebrate its 1st year anniversary by throwing a 1 day designer sale party - offering all their items at 1 euro (around 5,5 dirhams!!!).

To participate you have to register here before the 11th of April.

Adieu

RIP Mr. McQueen

Green: next generation trendy color

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With the opening of Copenhagen climate summit, a special editorial calling for action from world leaders is simultaneously published in front cover of 56 newspapers in 45 countries.

The UAE based newspaper Gulf News has joined the cause with today’s front cover dedicated to the climate issue subject.

“Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.”

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Read here the entire article

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Such media action has never been done before, it will certainly be seen by many as coordinated PR or global media manipulation but still It is a global issue and it's time to limit the damage caused - we are all concerned and small independent act can make a difference…

Thanks for reading

Boutique 1 goes Online

For the workaholic, e-shopping freaks or just lazy fashionistas like me... famous department store Boutique 1 goes online!!

All brands carried in the store seem available online - from 3.1 Philipp Lim to Acne, Marchesa or Zac Posen - let's just hope now cause only the assortment selection will make the difference.

Weekly fashion news and report and personal styling advice.

Ladies seriously get your credit card ready!!

www.boutique1.com

Christopher Kane @TopShop

For the second time Christopher Kane collaborates with our fav’ Brit chain TopShop for a capsule collection.

Since Lagerfeld and the Swedish giant H&M, no one is surprised anymore to hear about hot designer and mass-distrib-fashion (so many the past years!)

They haven’t been all satisfying (I have in mind the disappointment of Comme des Garcons at H&M)

But it seems that Kane and TopShop is a successful affair!

The preview looks are more than promising and hot-trendy - rock-glam-80’s well exactly what we are looking for the upcoming season.

Metallic details – studded leggings – designer look dresses and for sure my next buy the Mesh-Platform shoes!

For those (like me) who couldn’t afford the so-wanted gorillas dress – Kane generously edited a (more affordable) crocodile version.

Available by End of September.

Matthew Williamsonizer

Parisian store before the official opening last Thursday

I have to share this with you; this is one of those days when Lily is feeling completely fashionalistically sad!!!
My disappointment is huge when I say huge I mean gigantesque!!!! Life is unfair….

Time has come once again, and all fashionistas around the world were in the starting blocks, waiting for the new Matthew Williamson collection for H&M to come!! The H&M collaborations with designers have become an institution, some pieces are even collectors (remember the tuxedo vest by Lagerfeld).

Well here we go!! The 1st Part of the collection was officially launched last Thursday in selected stores (200 worldwide) and more democratically mi-May a second collection in all stores. As I could manage to catch a little glimpse of the collection before, which was very promising, I got all excited and impatient to touch the pieces in real (and avoid the Comme des Garcons disappointment…). I want it all, I want the perfecto leather jacket (still i'm wondering if i can put dhs 959 in an H&M jacket even signed by mr. W himself), I want the electric blue suit, I want the sequins dress, I want the SJP belt!!!

Ok the big question now is: what about Dubai??

As I was getting very curious to know the release date in Dubai… and decided to give a quick phone call to MOE boutique. What????? May 14th??????? But Whyyyyyyy????????
Hang up, start sweating and calling all the shops…. ‘Matthew who?? Euh noooo sorry I don’t know m’aam…’ grrrrr

6 phone calls, 6 hang ups later and 6 arguments later... i was trying to understand:

Are we not fashionista enough to have the 1st part in exclusivity,at least in one of the UAE’s shop? Not enough Williamsonizer material?!?! Is it a test to see if we can book a ticket to Paris just for that?? Okay 1 week difference is acceptable but 21 days to wait non non et non!!!!!!!

I got even more nervous when my girl friends in Paris started sending me emails like “I got the blue electric vest and peacock dress, and you??” grrrrrrrrrrrrr told you life is unfair!

So H&M decision maker if you can hear me I hate you!!!!!!

Photos www.lexpress.fr/styles and H&M website.

Breaking News

Sorry guys this little post concern my french compatriots or people with french postal address.. (they don't deliver to UAE).

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