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  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Etihad Airways has teamed up with renowned Indian fashion designer Manish Malhotra to showcase the artiste’s latest collection at the forthcoming Lakmé Fashion Week in Mumbai. The award-winning airline will join the highly acclaimed designer at India’s leading fashion event for the unveiling of his winter collection, taking place in the country’s commercial capital ...

  RELAXNEWS When September comes round again, attention will turn to the four fashion capitals of the world — New York, London, Milan and Paris — to see what’s new at the spring-summer 2017 fashion shows. As always, some models will stand out during Fashion Month, and they will be the ones who the big brands sign up for their ...

  Relaxnews Swedish high-street chain H&M has unveiled a new look from its collaborative collection with French fashion house Kenzo, modelled by Norwegian musician Anna of the North. The item, a short dress printed with a folk-inspired reinterpretation of an original design by the house’s founder Kenzo Takada, is the fourth look to be revealed from the range and will ...

  Lome / AFP Wearing a brightly-coloured wrap-around dress, Sonia ambles through the crowds at a market in a popular neighbourhood of Lome, a string of tiny red beads dangling from her hips. “I’m very comfortable wearing waist beads. But it is also a way of attracting men,” says the 24-year-old hairdresser, a coy smile playing on her lips. In ...

  Cannes / DPA Seaside towns often have a long history, starting out as fishing villages and developing into maritime trade centres. Different occupying powers and inhabitants have left their traces and thanks to the towns’ location on the sea and their commercial role they’re usually cosmopolitan and culturally diverse places offering travellers a great mixture of history, night life and ...

  Emirates Business Battle-racing shifts into high gear as Anki — a robotics and artificial intelligence company —announces launch of their hit robotic battle-racing game, Anki OVERDRIVE, in the United Arab Emirates this summer. Anki OVERDRIVE is available at select Harvey Nichols and Virgin Megastore outlets across Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Following the massive success of Anki DRIVE, one of ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE is deeply committed to protecting humanitarian workers and providing emergency relief to more than 130 million people affected by humanitarian crises in over 40 countries, Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemi, Minister of State for International Cooperation, said on Thursday on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day. In a statement to mark World Humanitarian Day, ...

  KHARTOUM / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent, ERC, on Thursday launched a campaign to distribute humanitarian aid to the victims of floods and rains that hit large parts of Sudan. The campaign began with distributing more than a thousand blankets and some food parcels to those affected by the floods as a first stage. In an interview with the Emirates ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, today called parents to prepare their children psychologically and educationally for the new academic year. In a series of tweets on his official account on the microblogging site, Twitter, he said that awareness is what shapes future. He was commenting on ...

  Dubai / WAM The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) announced a specialised hall dedicated for innovation during the 18th Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition, WETEX 2016, which will be organised under the directives of Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh ...