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Harvey Nichols – Dubai pays tribute to Oscar de la Renta and his career as a leading fashion icon with it's ‘Legendary Style’ – in-store event.The first of it's kind in Dubai, the event will highlight memorable red carpet and runway gowns from previous Oscar de la Renta collections.Also being shown will be a selection from the Spring Summer 2015 collection.

‘Legendary Style’ will showcase the extraordinary talent and creativity of one of the world's most celebrated designers.These spectacular red carpet and runway gowns, worn by models and celebrities throughout de la Renta's career, illustrate his sense of style and love of beauty.The exclusive VIP event will feature stunning pieces of the current Spring Summer 2015 collection including a selection of daywear, shoes, bags, fur and eveningwear.

Date     : 13 April - 13 May, 2015

Venue  : Harvey Nichols Dubai

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In line with Cities Boutique's drive to encourage and support artists and designers, the region's pioneering art and design concept store will host an in-store exhibition of works by Greek-American artist Fotis Gerakis showcasing skateboard art form in the boutique.

The purpose of the exhibition is to encourage viewers to discover the world of art that often resides within the realm of design.Fotis Gerakis' skateboard art focuses on contrast, mastery of the self, fantasy, objectification, and desire, making his urban style artwork worthy of further examination.

Fotis Gerakis is a lifelong artist whose previous creations include endless experimentations.He has been educated, lived, and traveled around the world.Within his professional career, his motion graphic and art direction work was awarded multiple times with prestigious Emmy and Telly awards, and he also received a silver BDA/PROMAX award.He has taught at the university level and he was also one of the co-founders of a successful design firm based in Riyadh and Beirut, where he helped influence the design trends of the region.

This exhibition aims to introduce the art of Fotis Gerakis to the public while encouraging new forms of artistic expression.His debut is part of a series of events that Cities has planned in order to further the education and exposure of viewers to the endless forms of art and design available.

Date   : 19 April - 29 April, 2015

Venue: Galleria Mall, Dubai, UAE.

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Celebrating another year of Beauty excellence, AREEJ hosts the annual and exclusive Beauty Extravaganza across all its stores from 1^{st -} 30^th April 2015.

In celebration of a month dedicated to beauty, AREEJ will also offer customers the chance to take their make-up skills to the next level with beauty master classes, which will cover popular techniques as well as beauty basics such as ‘The Smokey Eye’, ‘Contouring’ and Flash make-up’ for beauty addicts on the go.

The beauty obsessed can visit AREEJ from April 10 to be amongst the first to exclusively experience ‘French Paradise’, Lancôme’s Summer Make-up Collection of luminous corals, refreshing azures, power pastels.That's not all, add a pop of colour to your dresser with a limited edition AREEJ make-up brush case containing 4 professional make-up brushes, upon a spend of AED 699 or or 69.

With a host of the finest offers from international beauty brands such as Dior, Estee Lauder, Clinique, Lancome, Illamasqua, Clarins and Givenchy to name a few, there's never a better time to stock up on all your beauty must-haves.

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You're invited! Socialista Boutique is hosting a pop up called THE HUT this coming Tuesday and Wedesday, co-hosted by Juniors Be Junior.The Hut will host the top emerging brands of the region, good music and very yummy snacks.


Date     : 24 March - 25 March, 2015

Timings: 11AM - 8PM

Venue   :Socialista Boutique, The Sunset Mall, Jumeirah Beach Road, Dubai.
               
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Experience a night of Botanical Fashion at Valleydez boutique, as they unveil their latest arrivals, which include stunning collections from Monique Lhuillier, Tony Ward, Manish Arora, Amit Agarwal and many more.

Date     : 23 March, 2015

Timings: 6PM - 9PM

Venue   : Valleydez at Sunset Mall, Jumeirah Beach Road.

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Initially launched in Cairo by two women whose love for art exceeded the boundaries of their own homes,‘Part With Your Art’ is a one-of-a-kind social event entirely devoted in showcasing people's personally-owned works of art along with the hopes of scouring a new favorite that will make a statement without breaking the bank.

Along with co-founder and creator, Laila Naga, Iris Dubai invites and encourages art patrons and owners to take part in ‘Part with Your Art’, all in the hopes of transforming your home space to feel more like you.

“Iris Dubai will be transformed into an open art market that will focus on acquiring and selling pieces of art while also creating a space for socializing and embracing the art world,” said Karim Jaber, Iris’ founder and managing partner.

How to sell your art:

Visit www.irisdubai.com art in order to login and submit your art piece's necessary details.Iris Dubai will in turn contact you to discuss availability and the procedures of the event.Art submission ends on April 11.

Date          : 18 April - 22 April

Timings     : 4PM - Onwards

Venue       : The Oberoi, Dubai (27th floor).

Telephone: +971569511442

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Design pioneer, Nada Debs will be hosting an exciting launch event to showcase an exclusive collection of her iconic pieces and never before seen furniture and home accessories at design concept store, Comptoir 102.

This year, Debs celebrates the extraordinary 10-year journey of her international furniture and home accessory brand.Following the formative years of her artistic career where the focus was to combine Middle Eastern craft and modern design, Nada Debs will progress into an even more minimalistic and clean design aesthetic continuing forward.

Comptoir 102 is the perfect synergy to Nada Debs' novel direction where interiors are synonymous with contemporary living.Her pieces seamlessly tie into the signature identity of the story-telling concept store. 

Date     : 16 March - 16 May, 2015

Timings: 6PM - 9PM

Venue  : 102 Jumeirah Road, Dubai, UAE.

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Ayyam Gallery is pleased to announce it's participation in this year's Art Dubai from 18 until 21 March.Returning to the region's leading art fair with recent examples by Nadim Karam, Faisal Samra, Safwan Dahoul, Sama Alshaibi, Kais Salman, Mouteea Murad, Athier Mousawi, and Alireza Fani, the gallery's curated selection will spotlight artworks that either consider the precarity of the present, on both micro and macro levels, or offer bold visions for the future. 

Date     : 18 March - 21 March, 2015

Timings: 18 March (4PM - 9:30PM) INVITE ONLY

Venue  : Madinat Arena, booth J-24, Johara Ballroom, Dubai, UAE.

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Gallery Ward Dubai is thrilled to invite you to the opening preview of Linked Itineraries, Reminiscence, and Representation.This exhibition marks a significant meeting point in the regional exhibition movement, presenting works side to side by two widely celebrated and inspirational figures in the Arab World art: Adam Henein and Farouk Hosny.Two personal styles and languages, interlinked in the ways each translate visually personal inspiration.

Linked Itineraries, Reminiscence, and Representation brings back Adam Henein and Farouk Hosny after their seminal exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum Farouk Hosny/Adam Henein: Contemporary Egyptian Artists and Heirs to an Ancient Tradition in 1999.

Date     : 11 March, 2015

Timings: 7PM - Onwards

Venue  : Gallery Ward, Dubai.

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Opera Gallery Dubai, part of the internationally renowned Opera Gallery network, is set to exhibit Argentinian artist Antonio Segui’s new collection of paintings.The collection, which will be shown during Art Dubai 2015 ties in nicely with this year's focus on Latin America, showcasing Segui's fascination with cities, urban landscapes and multiculturalism on a global level.The artist will attend the opening night of the exhibition.

One of the greatest Latin American painters, Segui's past three decades of work illustrates his attraction with the city, it's people and it's pulse.Visually, Segui presents the 'everyman' in his work, an anonymous passerby amid the swarm and hustle and bustle of city life exploring man's place in society and surroundings.

Date       :18 March - 1 April, 2015

Timings  : 7 PM - Onwards

Venue    : Opera Gallery, Gate Village Building 3, DIFC, Dubai.

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Ayyam Gallery is pleased to announce Femafia, the solo exhibition of acclaimed Iranian artist Afshin Pirhashemi, who returns to Dubai with a new body of work.Pirhashemi's evident fascination with women, their struggles in hostile environments, and a resulting combative character, now expand to a wider scope of observation, tainted by the atmosphere that has been surrounding the artist for the past year.News, films, and women, among others, ignited a shifting outlook on the world that Pirhashemi has translated with his unmistakable style into photorealistic portraits defiantly laying on minimalist backgrounds. 

While Pirhashemi's consummate brushwork remains a constant, his instantly recognisable monochromatisms seemingly dissolve, allowing colours to gain territory on his canvases.Following his UK show last year (Seduction, Ayyam Gallery London), in which two large-scale paintings introduced nude hues on the faces of his bold heroines, Pirhashemi’s thirst for pigments amplifies after years of colour abstinence. 

Through carefully orchestrated depictions of his flamboyant characters, paired with strong, symbolic, and revealing titles, Pirhahsemi takes the viewer on a narrative road to an evolving psychic state that translates his oeuvre into one continuous series.

Date     : 16 March - 30 April, 2015

Timings: 16 March (7PM - 10PM)

Venue  : Ayyam Gallery, Gate Village 3, DIFC, Dubai.

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Ayyam Gallery Dubai (DIFC) is pleased to announce LOL, the solo show of influential Syrian artist Khaled Takreti.Highlighting Takreti's latest body of work, the exhibition travels to Dubai after a highly successful debut at Ayyam Gallery's Beirut outpost in September 2014, where a new monograph on the artist was simultaneously launched.

LOL demonstrates Takreti's recent innovations in painting through a methodical process that involves multiple stages of executing his compositions.In each work, the artist begins with appropriated or photographic imagery then creates a stencil that serves as the outline of his subjects as he renders an ‘etching’ on the sparse background of untreated canvas. 

The new, bilingual monograph on the artist will be available at the DIFC installment of the exhibition.Featuring a catalogue of reproductions spanning two decades of Takreti's oeuvre, the publication also includes essays by critic, editor, and novelist Pascal Amel and Ayyam Gallery artistic director and chief writer Maymanah Farhat.

Date     : 14 January - 12 March, 2015

Timings: 14 January (7PM - 9PM)

Venue  : Ayyam Gallery, Gate Village 3, DIFC, Dubai.

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NAKKASH Gallery, known for its dedication to highlighting and showcasing contemporary design and antiques, brings yet another reputable artist into its inspiring mix, Jaber Alwan.Displaying his works at the gallery, Alwan is set to enrich art lovers with his vision as he expresses his life views on canvas.

Alwan's brilliant pieces have been displayed across the globe and have effortlessly narrated the arbitrary color and emotion that goes into each stroke he fashions.Unveiling Jaber Alwan, the famous Iraqi/Italian name, NAKKASH will showcase the artist within the gallery next month.

Date     : 8 December, 2014

Timings: 7PM - 10PM

Venue  : Nakkash Gallery, Sheikh Zayed Branch, Dubai, UAE.

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The world's foremost fashion legends will once again celebrate the newest trends in fashion at the second Vogue Fashion Dubai Experience to be held at The Dubai Mall, home to the largest collection of high-end brands under one roof.

A high point of the event will be it's focus on serving as a platform for emerging fashion talent from across the world, with Vogue Italia and BySymphony.com scouting 20 emerging designers, who will show their works from throughout Vogue Fashion Dubai Experience.Eight established international talents, selected by Vogue Italia, will also display their newest collections during the event.

Date     : 30 October - 1 November, 2014

Timings: 30 October (7PM) - 1 November (3PM)

Venue  : The Dubai Mall

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Gallery Ward is proud to present Egyptian Beliefs, the first solo exhibition in Dubai for renowned Egyptian artist Adel Tharwat.Organized by Ehab Ellaban, this exhibition highlights iconic concepts, style, and imagery of Tharwat's representations of Egyptian culture.The artist's bold and vibrant figures and sceneries are charged with noble understanding of a rich heritage and deep awe to forefathers of all civilisations that shaped modern Egyptian life we know today.The paintings tell combinations of stories through obvious and subtle associations of elements from old tales, popular myths, and melodious hymns that have survived and become uniquely encrypted in Egyptian memories.

Although the artist derives inspiration and incorporates images from history, he maintains a completely modern perspective in contexualising his visions.Thus the works reveal new meanings to symbols manifested in objects (like the key), forms (like triangles), texts, or postures and features of his figures that are reminiscent of Pharaonic monuments and murals.Tharwat's surreal settings raise new aesthetic implications, in terms of colour, composition and angles, use of space, and conceptual presumptions, bringing forth an experience that drives viewers to use their imagination in order to make sense of and complete the stories presented.

Date     : 20 October

Timings: 20 October (7PM) - Onwards

Venue  : Gallery Ward, Dubai

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It is with great pleasure and immense excitement that we announce that S*uce has been chosen as the official Pop-Up partner to Dubai's design trade fair: Downtown Design. 

Downtown Design debuted in 2013 and is held under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.The fair will be held in the heart of downtown Dubai, showcasing the latest in design, complemented by a series of events and renowned keynote speakers.

The s*uce pop-up space will be curated under the theme: Marie Antoinette x Bedouin Nouveau and will give fairgoers the opportunity to pick up an affordable design piece, lifestyle item or gift from a vast number of regional as well as international designers.

Date     : 28 October - 31 October, 2014

Timings: 28 October (12PM) - 31 October (6PM)

Venue   : Downtown Dubai

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The cARTel is proud to be opening the Fashion Week Middle East.Portraying their avant-garde Autumn/Winter 2014 collection featuring: Rad Hourani, Hellen Van Rees, and Kaal E. Suktae to name a few.So don't miss out! See you there!!!


Date  : 1 October, 2014

Time  : 4PM

Venue: DIFC

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“Fifty Shades of Flowers” celebrates all things floral, fun and colourful.This time Sauce Gifts has collaborated with the gorgeous Miri NJ Khayat who has created these breathtaking sunlashes.They're the picture-perfect accessory to take your vacation wear up a notch.

Don't forget Tuesday Treats is on for one day only, so pass by Sauce Gifts today to get your hands on one of these uber-unique flowery pieces!

Date     : 20 May, 2014

Timings: 10AM - 10PM

Venue  : S*uce Gifts

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Summer is here! So why not treat yourself this Tuesday Treats with these limited edition Tarsila Schubert beach hats.

Psst it's one day only, so don't miss out!!!

Date     : 20 May, 2014

Timings: 10AM - 10PM

Venue  : S*uce Gifts

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Ayyam Gallery is pleased to announce Syria's Apex Generation, an exhibition featuring recent works by artists Nihad Al Turk, Abdul Karim Majdal Al-Beik, Othman Moussa, Mohannad Orabi, and Kais Salman.Curated by art historian and Ayyam Gallery Artistic Director Maymanah Farhat, the exhibition will spotlight a new school of Syrian painting in the midst of expansion despite the disintegration of the Damascus art scene, it's original centre.

Syria's Apex Generation explores the myriad ways artists are responding to the current conflict in Syria through multifaceted works that reflect a new phase of the country's contemporary art.Focusing on painters who launched their careers in the 2000s when the Damascus art scene experienced significant growth, the exhibition will demonstrate how these artists have contributed to the catapulting of Syrian art over the past decade, which reached a high point just before the onset of the war.


Date          : 9 June - 2 August, 2014

Venue        : Ayyam Gallery Dubai (Alserkal Avenue)

Telephone : +97143236242



Date           : 9 June - 2 August, 2014

Venue        : Ayyam Gallery Dubai (DIFC)

Telephone : +97144392393



Date           : 12 June - 2 August, 2014

Venue        : Ayyam Gallery Beirut

Telephone : +9611374450/51

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