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Loquet London
Take your charms to the next, most adorable level, with this company created by London girls-about-town Laura Bailey and Sheherazade Goldsmith. Loquet lets you design a gold and crystal locket (geddit?), filled with the charms of your choice, from 18k hearts, stars and butterflies to birthstones such as emeralds, rubies and sapphires. They are at once modern and fairy-like. A small 14k round locket with a diamond butterfly and sapphire is Dh7,146; with more charms is the medium locket with diamond, emerald, tourmaline, Dh11,163, at shopbop.com.
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The Kooples
Let the French fashion takeover continue. The latest store to capture everyone’s attention overseas has now opened at The Dubai Mall. Kooples became famous for its advertising, which features real-life (very trendy, nay, hipster) couples wearing the designs of brothers Alexandre, Laurent and Raphael Elicha. The pieces are the French street classics — slim-fit blazers, shirts, soft t-shirts and tight black jeans — for men and women. Their heritage is pretty solid too: Their mother launched Comptoir des Cotonniers, whose advertising features mother-daughter pairs in similar clothing. Keep it in the family.
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Fake fur
You can stay warm without sacrificing a life with Unreal Fur, an Australia faux fur brand that’s now available in the UAE. Before you start to say “when am I ever going to wear that?”, let us remind you of the near-freezing temperatures we are currently experiencing. See? You can rock a fur coat in Dubai, and you don’t even have to be the girlfriend of a rock star to do it. We love the classic coat, Dh1,695, at WEST L.A. There are also stoles and jackets.
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Hilfiger Collection
Tommy Hilfiger’s premium women’s collection landed in the Mall of the Emirates earlier this month, the only outlet in the Middle East to stock the range. These are the pieces that Hilfiger shows on the catwalk during New York Fashion Week in February and September, although they are made in Italy.
“Our consumers in the Middle East have always appreciated the quality, luxury, versatility and sophistication of our designs,” said Hilfiger. Hilfiger Collection introduces an elevated interpretation of our ‘classic American cool’ spirit that further emphasises our presence in the market as “a premium designer brand”.
