Girl about Dubai: October 2012

Review: LCF Short courses in Dubai

A few weeks ago I attended the London College of Fashion short course thanks to my lovely friend Izzy. I thought I'd do a review for any of you who were thinking of applying to one. The course was titled: 'Your future in Fashion' the aim was to help those thinking of a career in fashion to understand a bit more about the roles of certain jobs involved in the industry.

I 100% recommend this course to anyone hoping to have a future in fashion, I learnt about things that I didn't know existed within the industry! If you are thinking of applying to London College of Fashion I also suggest attending a course before you apply, just so you get a feel for it. I have had a couple of emails in the past from my readers asking me what I wish to study at University, after this course I have finally made up my mind. I am going to study Journalism with English Literature to begin with then take a Post-Graduate in Fashion Journalism, hopefully at London College of Fashion. The course really opened my eyes to everything involved in getting into the industry thanks to the excellent lecturer Toby Meadows. He taught us how to predict trends, about brand DNA, marketing strategies and much more.

After the course we were all invited to a cocktail evening at OKKU which was a lovely way to end the weekend course.

If you are interested in applying to a short course visit: http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/shortcourses/middle-east/

There are a variety of courses starting in Jan-May, if you do book a place let me know how it goes!

Hope this was helpful

Love Fia x

My feature on United designers.ae!

A couple of weeks ago I had a interview published on the United Designers blog about A/W trends! I'm very happy to be a part of the United Bloggers group along with a few of my favourite Dubai based bloggers. Check out my interview here: http://blog.uniteddesigners.ae/bloggers-unite-with-girl-about-dubai-2/

I hope to see you at the Topshop event tomorrow!

Love Fia x

Fashion Overdose: LONDONIZE.ME!

Last Wednesday night Wafa and Farah Habbar the creators of Londonize.me hosted the fabulous event that was Fashion Overdose at the amazing Armani Privé ! The evening consisted of a fashion show, socialising and partying, a very glamorous affair! I've already expressed my LOVE for Londonize.me, when I went to their pop-up shop a couple of weeks ago and if you haven't already checked out their website you seriously need to: http://londonize.me/

I guess I'm breaking one of the Fashion Shower rules by doing another post on my blog wearing the same outfit, but I had to wear this gorgeous River Island dress to at least one event in Dubai, forgive me Anna Del Russo! If you have no idea what I'm talking about watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZbF98jxF5c Regardless, here are the pictures!

Andrea and El-j <3

Nouna looking amazing as ever

2AM on a school night, whoops!

Thank you so much to Wafa and Farah, I had the best time!

Remember to check out Londonize.me and like them on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/Londonizeme?ref=ts&fref=ts

Love Fia x

H&M: Anna Del Russo's Fashion Shower accessories !

I could not resist not going to an H&M today, I just had to check out Anna's much awaited and hyped up collection! Everything was nice enough, I guess, just not really to my taste. Perhaps a little tacky at best?
I'd definitely worth going and having a look around though, even if it just to mock dead bird hats and brash necklaces...

Not too sure about this one, perhaps if I had a crazy event to go to or a mad hatters tea party...

As much as I love Anna Del Russo I feel these shoes just look a bit tacky

These are pretty, I do like them, however they aren't the best quality for the price!

Overall verdict: Not particularly for me apart from the clutches, I did like those, shame about the quality. One thing I did love about this collab however was the catchy song, Fashion Shower! If you haven't heard/seen it, you need to watch it now! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZbF98jxF5c

What do you think of the much awaited collection? Were you disappointed like me?

Thanks for reading

Love Fia x

Happy 1st Birthday to It's Sugar!

Today I went to Mall of the Emirates with my best friend, Megan, who you've probably seen a lot on my blog! Anyway, we popped into It's Sugar to wish them a happy 1st birthday and then to see Anna Del Russo's new collection for H&M which launched this morning (next blog post).

It's Sugar were celebrating their birthday with dancers, beat-boxers, giant sweets and of course free candy for everyone! I had a little too much fun posing with massive sweets, I'm eight years old at heart! They were also kind enough to let me fill up a box of sweets for myself, which I took great delight in doing, kid in a candy store and all haha.

Beat-box winner!

My sweet box, nom nom

I think I need one of these for my room...

Like their Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/itsugarme and be sure to wish them a happy birthday! Or even better pop into the store (opposite Vox cinema at MOE) and treat yourself to something sweet!

Thanks for reading

Love Fia x

OOTN| The first fall outfit!

I know, it may seem very ridiculous to be wearing this outfit in Dubai when it is still so hot, however I went out for dinner with my best friend and decided why not! We weren't going to be spending any time outside anyway. To be fair, inside buildings it is actually pretty damn cold with the AC and I've been so ill recently, all the more reason to wear a faux dead animal on my head, I think! Anyway I've saved this outfit post for the 1st October to mark the start of the Fall season, bring on the jumpers, socks and hats!