It’s the second year for the DIFF VIP Lounge, which is located in Al Qasr hotel. The lounge, which last year played host to celebrities including Colin Firth, Cate Blanchett, Kristen Davis, offers 17 different brands of gifts and services. Nadia El Dasher offers a sneak peek at what the stars will perusing at this year’s event.
Making a Kilian
The house of Kilian was launched in 2007 as a luxury fragrance brand. Kilian Hennessy, the man behind the launch, was introduced to the perfume world while writing his thesis on the semantic of odours at the Sorbonne Paris. After training with perfumers at Christian Dior and Giorgio Armani, Hennessy began his own journey into the world of fragrance. During the Dubai International Film Festival, celebrities will choose from Kilian’s three new collections: Playing with the Devil, Musk Oud (pictured) and Shanghai 1920. Playing with the Devil is a collaboration with the perfumer Calice Becker and is built around “forbidden fruits” and contrasting scents. Musk Oud is the last of the Arabian Nights collection that brought about a meeting of minds with Kilian and the Saint Laurent fragrance creator Alberto Morillas. The perfume combines liquorice, Bulgarian rose, Indian geranium and oud along with different musks. The final fragrance, Shanghai 1920, was inspired by the Chinese city and its glamour and elegance in the 1920s.
A rosy outlook
O’de Rose, the Dubai-based store, is a great stop for artisanal gifts and home-decor pieces. The shop is packed full of Arabian-inspired furniture, home accessories and jewellery, including chairs by the Lebanese design duo Bokja and cushions from We.rak. The store is also a firm supporter of Emirati designers. Celebrity giveaways include Tamer Khalifa’s pop-art cushion (pictured), which features movie star prints, as well as geometric jewellery by Azza Bijou.
Dazzling eyewear
The Austrian crystal specialists, Swarovski, does more than just homeware. The label has transformed into a fully fledged lifestyle brand that incorporates fashion, millinery, home decor and jewellery. This year, VIPs at DIFF will be able to get their hands on this pair of metal frames. The sunglasses, which feature ultrafine crystals embedded just above the lens, are a great mix of form meets function.
Juicy loves UAE
The American label Juicy Couture has come a long way from its velour tracksuit days. The “Juicy” emblazoned zip-up hooded jackets and tracksuit bottoms were a celebrity hit in the noughties and we predict that these “Juicy Couture hearts UAE” T-shirts will follow suit at DIFF. Stars will get their very own crystallised top in the colours of the UAE flag, quite appropriate seeing as the festival began just a few days after National Day festivities ended.
Because he’s worth it, too – male grooming at DIFF
The Dubai branch of the Mayfair men’s salon Gentlemen’s Tonic at Atlantis is the male equivalent of a luxury salon. The idea behind Gentlemen’s Tonic was to recreate a traditional barbershop for the modern man. From haircuts to wet shaves, the station offers men a chance to get in on pre-red carpet pampering.
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There are numerous success stories of teen businesses that were created in college dorm rooms and other modest circumstances. Below are some of the most recognisable names in the industry:
- Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg and his friends started Facebook when he was a 19-year-old Harvard undergraduate.
- Dell: When Michael Dell was an undergraduate student at Texas University in 1984, he started upgrading computers for profit. He starting working full-time on his business when he was 19. Eventually, his company became the Dell Computer Corporation and then Dell Inc.
- Subway: Fred DeLuca opened the first Subway restaurant when he was 17. In 1965, Mr DeLuca needed extra money for college, so he decided to open his own business. Peter Buck, a family friend, lent him $1,000 and together, they opened Pete’s Super Submarines. A few years later, the company was rebranded and called Subway.
- Mashable: In 2005, Pete Cashmore created Mashable in Scotland when he was a teenager. The site was then a technology blog. Over the next few decades, Mr Cashmore has turned Mashable into a global media company.
- Oculus VR: Palmer Luckey founded Oculus VR in June 2012, when he was 19. In August that year, Oculus launched its Kickstarter campaign and raised more than $1 million in three days. Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion two years later.
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- Mold is bad: the colour pink is a sign of mold. If yogurt turns pink as it ferments, you need to discard it and start again. For kraut, if you remove the top leaves and see any sign of mold, you should discard the batch.
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