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14 Oct

First Edition of Arab Fashion Week on Oct 31 - Nov 2 2015 THE ARAB FASHION COUNCIL ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ARAB FASHION WEEK, SPRING SUMMER 2016 OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 02, 2015 H.E Cavaliere Mario Boselli, the Honorary President of both Arab Fashion Council and the National Chamber of Italian Fashion (Camera Nazionale Della Moda Italiana) and Arab Fashion Council’s Founder Jacob Abrian announced the launch of the first edition of Arab Fashion Week at a press conference held at One& Only Royal Mirage on Wednesday, 14th October 2015. Following the official announcement during Milan Fashion Week on 23rd September 2015, The Arab Fashion Council (AFC), the largest non-profit fashion association, officially announced the launch of the first Arab Fashion...

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13 Oct

The 5xChallenge: Sign up to break a Guinness World Record!!!

by Samira Cooper

English, Events, Sport

The 5xChallenge: Sign up to break a Guinness World Record!!! Under the umbrella and high patronage of The UAE Football Association and presented by Vonni Events, the 5xChallenge was born under the vision of Mr. Ghanim AL-Falasi. Consisting of 3 main stages of high spirit football. The 5xchallenge is a 5vs5 football match marathon. The first challenge is a two day teams challenge where teams will compete for an award of up to 35,000 AED. The second challenge will be to break the Guinness world Record for the most players in a 5-a-side football exhibition match (currently held by Petts Wood Football Club (UK). The third challenge is a 2 day challenge for players under the age of 17. Register your team...

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12 Oct

Esteban Chaves is the winner of the Abu Dhabi Tour 2015

by Samira Cooper

English, Events, Sport

Esteban Chaves is the winner of the Abu Dhabi Tour 2015 Esteban Chaves celebrated victory with his Orica-GreenEdge teammates. The ever-smiling climber, who won two stages and finished fifth at the Vuelta a Espana, has enjoyed a break through season. He is now set to win the first edition of the four-day stage race, which ends with a 110km twilight stage on the Yas Marina Formula One circuit. He leads Fabio Aru (Astana) by 16 seconds, with Wout Poels (Team Sky) at 27 seconds. The 25-year-old Colombian set up victory by winning the key mountain stage to Jebel Hafeet on Saturday. Chaves attacked alone five kilometres from the finish and distanced all his rivals. Only Wout Poels (Team Sky) was able to...

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9 Oct

Andrea Guardini is the winner of The ADNOC Stage

by Samira Cooper

English, Sport

Andrea Guardini is the winner of The ADNOC Stage Andrea Guardini (Astana Team) is the winner of the ADNOC Stage (the first stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour 2015). Guardini was forced to jump around a slowing Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) but still had the legs to beat Tom Boonen (Etixx-QuickStep) Sagan’s teammate Daniele Bennati. The start line was in the suggestive scenery of Qasar Al Sarab Resort in the middle of the red desert. The stage had been reduced by 14.5km after the high temperatures (around 40 C°) made for a slow day of racing, and the peloton had just one corner to manage in the final 500 metres after more than 50 kilometres of straight roads. The presence of world champion Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo), Tom Boonen...

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7 Oct

DE.FASH.STRUCTION @ Design Space on October 7th 2015

by Samira Cooper

Art, English, Fashion

DE.FASH.STRUCTION @ Design Space on October 7th 2015 DE.FASH.STRUCTION: Telling stories through fashion curated by Khulood Thani Wednesday 7 October, 2015 7:00 p.m. 1971 – Design Space The Flag Island Sharjah, United Arab Emirates The designers in De.Fash.Struction explore ways of documenting the United Arab Emirates' rich cultural heritage and modern references through the medium of contemporary fashion. They employ the techniques of deconstruction in their newly commissioned projects for this exhibition. The exhibited designs take these cultural and local narratives as source material using the deconstruction technique. Deconstruction in fashion implies an undoing of the structure of a garment, a refusal to 'finish' it. It suggests working with subtractions or displacements and are thinking of the function and meaning of the garment itself,...

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6 Oct

Knowledge & Beauty

by stefano

Culture

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6 Oct