Dubai Fashion Week
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Dubai Fashion Week is a fashion week
Fashion Week
A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers, brands or "houses" to display their latest collections in runway shows and buyers and the media to take a look at the latest trends. Most importantly, these events let the industry know...

 held in Dubai
Dubai
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

, United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

 that was launched in 2005 and owned and organised by Capital Marketing FZ LLC, an event management company. It was co-founded by Marc Robinson, a well-known international fashion show producer. The event witnessed the launch of some brands:
  • Estinna
    Estinna
    Estinna is a brand founded by Seher Bedi and Tina Bedi. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Estinna is retailing in multibrand outlets in the UAE and India. The brand launched in Dubai Fashion Week in October 2009.The owner Tina G...

    , October 2009.

The first Indian designer to open Dubai Fashion Week was Wendell Rodricks
Wendell Rodricks
Wendell Rodricks is a prominent fashion designer based in the western Indian region of Goa. He has been listed among one of India's top ten designers. His work has involved a wide range of fashion—from lecturing on world costume history to fashion journalism and styling for international...

. Some models have debuted their career in Dubai Fashion Week including:
  • Aditya Redij
    Aditya Redij
    Aditya Bipin Redij is an Indian actor and model. He enrolled at St. Xaviers and later at Symbiosis International University.-Professional life :...


The models who ramped on the runway include:
  • Simran Kaur Mundi
    Simran Kaur Mundi
    Simran Mundi was crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe 2008 in Mumbai on 5 April 2008. She then represented India at Miss Universe 2008, held in Diamond Bay Resort in Nha Trang, Vietnam on July 13, 2008.-Biography:...

    , Miss India
    Miss India
    Miss India or Femina Miss India is a national beauty pageant in India, one of the most recognized contests to produce international beauty queens in the 90s, which annually selects three winners to compete globally. It is organized by Femina, a women's magazine published by Bennett, Coleman & Co...

    , 2008.


This event is covered by various national and international media. Prominent fashion editors who have covered this event includes Sourendra Kumar Das
Sourendra Kumar Das
Sourendra Kumar Das is a fashion editor with FashionFad.In who writes in English and a gay activist who fights for attaining equal rights of the LGBTI community. He has been writing on gender, sexuality, fashion, lifestyle and various diverse topics since 2004...

, ex-journalist with The Asian Age and The Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...

.

It is a by invitation only event.

Emirates Fashion Week 2011

This event of fashion extravaganza is poised receiving unprecedented press expose and will generate notoriety to designers. The event is set to promote networking among fashion industry professionals, educators, retail buyers, fashion journalists, trendsetters, taste makers and consumers. EFW will be featuring renown designers around the world, which will be the center of attraction to media and consumers.

See also

  • Paris Fashion Week
    Paris Fashion Week
    Paris Fashion Week is a famous fashion week held semi-annually in Paris, France with Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter events held each year. Dates are determined by the French Fashion Federation...

  • Milan Fashion Week
    Milan Fashion Week
    Milan Fashion Week is a famous fashion week held semi-annually in Milan, Italy Spring/Summer event held in February - March of each year and Autumn/Winter event held in September - October of each year....

  • New York Fashion Week
    New York Fashion Week
    The semi-annual New York Fashion Week, branded Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek in 2009, is held in February and September of each year in New York City. It is one of four major fashion weeks held around the world .-History:The first New York Fashion Week, then called Press Week, was the world's first...

  • London Fashion Week
    London Fashion Week
    London Fashion Week is an apparel trade show held in London, England twice each year, in February and September. It is one of the "Big Four" fashion weeks, along with New York Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week.-Organization:...

  • India Fashion Week
    India Fashion Week
    The India Fashion Week , is an event organized and promoted by the Fashion Design Council of India and sponsored by Wills Lifestyle.It is a fashion week and held in the national capital of India, New Delhi annually....

  • Karachi Fashion Week
    Karachi Fashion Week
    Karachi Fashion Week is a fashion week held in Karachi, Pakistan. It is the country's largest fashion display event.-Karachi Fashion Week 2011:...

  • Sourendra Kumar Das
    Sourendra Kumar Das
    Sourendra Kumar Das is a fashion editor with FashionFad.In who writes in English and a gay activist who fights for attaining equal rights of the LGBTI community. He has been writing on gender, sexuality, fashion, lifestyle and various diverse topics since 2004...

  • Marc Robinson
    Marc Robinson
    Marc Robinson is an Indian actor and model.Robinson started off his career as a model. He played the male lead in Bada Din , opposite Shabana Azmi and Tara Deshpande. Since then, he has worked primarily as a model coordinator and choreographer.On 2 February 2002, he married fellow model Waluscha...


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