Boutique 1, Dubai high fashion retailer has launched a version of its store, online. The website will include international brands including Carolina Herrera, Temperley and Joseph as well as top denim brands, 7 For All Mankind, True Religion and Rock & Republic. It will also feature a ‘shop-in-shops’ for both Elie Saab and Missoni, featuring [...]
Dubai Shopping
Dubai high fashion retailer Boutique 1 launches online store
February 23rd, 2010 | by Dubai Dude | published in Dubai Shopping, Living in Dubai
Bloomingdale coming to Dubai Mall
January 25th, 2010 | by Dubai Dude | published in Dubai Shopping, Living in Dubai
Bloomingdale’s, the famous New York department store, will open in The Dubai Mall on February 1. The two stores – a 146,000 sq ft fashion and accessories store spread over three floors, and a 54,000 sq ft home store – will open in partnership with the UAE-based Al Tayer Group. The launch marks the start [...]
Dubai Malls Offering Cash Incentives to Taxi Drivers
January 16th, 2009 | by Dubai Dude | published in Dubai Shopping, Living in Dubai
Another shopping festival has started in Dubai and the malls, already affected by looming downturn, lure taxi drivers by offering cash incentives as an attempt to enhance customer service to shriking shoppers. Khaleej Times reports Deira City Centre recently took an initiative to woo reluctant taxi drivers by giving them Dh10 in instant cash. The [...]
Yateem Optician
November 26th, 2008 | by Dubai Dude | published in Dubai Shopping, Living in Dubai
Well, Yateem means Orphan in Arabic as well as in Urdu. I thought it to be a starange name for a Group of Companies, established in 1910 and operating in the Gulf, including UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait. Now, I won’t mind visiting a Yateem Optician, for pity’s sake at least. Image: [...]