Abu Dhabi Fashion Week was launched at a glittering event at the Emirates Palace Hotel, before an international audience.
With Arab designers taking centre stage at the launch, the first night of the launch event for the Abu Dhabi Fashion Week played to a full house of fashion experts, buyers and guests who had descended on the specially constructed venue on the waterfront at the Emirates Palace Hotel.
The official opening of the launch event of the Abu Dhabi Fashion Week was undertaken by Khaldoun Khalifa Al-Mubarak, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority, Executive Chief and Chairman of Mubadala Development Company, Matteo Marzotto, the Chairman of Valentino and Ron Barrott, the CEO of ALDAR. Abu Dhabi fashion week will take place next year from March 17 to 21.
The audience was treated to the best of Arabian creativity on the first day. The elegant and chic collection of Rami Al Ali was the first to be showcased.
Following Rami's show, it was the turn of the avant garde collection of Milia M, the doyen of cutting edge, post modernist Arabian fashion design. On the second and final day of the launch, creations of Valentino, one of the greatest and most romantic of all designers in the recent past, was featured.
