subscribe to style file blog via RSSnot a bad face lift in sight
April 25, 2008 3:59 pm
"Modern cities and groundbreaking architecture. That’s what the Spring/Summer collections are all about," reckons Kevin Carrigan, creative director of ck Calvin Klein and Calvin Klein Jeans. Where better, then, to host a cocktail party showcase than in Dubai, where a new madcap monolith springs from the sand with each passing week? There are few buildings more striking than the city’s Four Seasons golf clubhouse, overlooking the Sheikh Zayed skyline and designed to capture the motion of a golfer’s swing, which played host to Carrigan and an army of Natalia Vodianova-clone models on Thursday night. The girls, along with obligatory topless boys, were encased in giant shafts of Perspex for the duration of the party, which attracted an influential crowd, including the editors of Harper’s Bazaar Dubai and Grazia Middle East. But in a city where women think nothing of buying "one in every color," it’s as important to woo individual clients as it is the opinion-formers: "This is predominantly a consumer event," said Carrigan. "I’ve met with several Dubai women since I arrived here, and they’re extremely cosmopolitan." Surveying the room, he noted, "There isn’t a bad face-lift in sight. The cliché of this place as flamboyant, brash, and opulent isn’t the whole story. There’s room for laid-back, effortless chic as well. This is the right time for us to be here."
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