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In Desert Safari, Dubai

Travelogue: Dubai Desert Wandering

Hope everyone's enjoying their holidays! Here are some more shots of our trip out to the desert in Dubai - we even managed to get super close to some camels! It was a little scary actually. I hear they spit. Here I'm wearing a dress from our line, Haute Heritage, and it's available by request. Enjoy! xoxo Dress: Haute Heritage (available by request) ...

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In Abu Dhabi, Fashion

Travelogue: @ The Yas Hotel, Abu Dhabi

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all are enjoying your holiday season. While on our recent visit to Abu Dhabi, we also visited the gorgeous Yas Hotel for brunch. Fantastically modern, you may recognize it as the venue for this year's Formula One races. It's the first hotel in the world to be built over an F1 race circuit and marina. It's even more...

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In Desert Safari, Dubai

Travelogue: Dubai Desert Safari + Dune Bashing

Also during our visit to Dubai, we got a chance to do some dune-bashing on a desert safari. Basically dune-bashing is getting in an SUV truck (like a Land Rover or 4Runner) and taking it up and down the sand dunes at high speeds. Sometimes it's scary because you actually feel like the car will topple over and you'll end up rolling down...

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In Abu Dhabi, Fashion

Travelogue: Visit to the Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi

The Grand Mosque is one of the greatest architectural wonders of Abu Dhabi. Built in 2007, it holds the record of the 8th largest mosque in the world and boasts being made of marble stone, gold, and semi-precious stones. Inspired by Mughal and Moorish architecture, one instantly recognizes the dome layout and floorplan similarity to the Badhshahi Mosque in Lahore, while the archways...

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In Desert Safari, Dubai

Travelogue: Dubai Dune Buggying

Hey everyone! Stop one on our Mid East/South Asia trip was Dubai, where we visited my sis. There, we went out to the desert for a dune buggy excursion one day. The desert is absolutely beautiful - vast and seemingly endless, with delightful clusters of roaming camels along the way. But dune buggying was an experience I wasn't expecting. I thought it would...

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In Travel,

Au Revoir! Our trip to Asia

Sorry for the lack of posts the past few days... we've been getting ready for our trip to the Middle East and South Asia, so the past week has been a hectic one as we got our last minute things together. We'll be working on the upcoming line and traveling the region, and my baby sis is getting married!  Lots of things going...

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In Ethnic Style Inspiration, Fall Style

A Fall Day @ Declaration of Independence Monument

Just a normal fall day in the District this weekend. It was exceptionally gorgeous out, so we took advantage and scoped some nice places to shoot outdoors. One of the nice things about living in DC is there are so many interesting backdrops to shoot at - monuments and memorials galore, and of course all the beautiful museums. I'm looking forward to shooting...

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In Altuzarra, Fashion

How to Take Your Summer Wardrobe Into Winter: Dress-Over-Pants Edition

One look making its way back from the '90s is the dress-over-pants. Remember this baby? Gwen Stefani, c.1998 Well, Gwen's style isn't the only thing that's improved since then. The dress-over-pants look is making a comeback, and this time it's sophisticated and sleek, thanks to the likes of Helmut Lang, Rag & Bone and Rebecca Taylor: (... and Givenchy and Haider Ackermann while...

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In Decor,

Decor Inspiration: Coordination

And now for your Thanksgiving enjoyment, here are some photos of well-coordinated decor. Since most of us are spending today indoors anyway, why not feast our eyes on some good decor (since we'll be feasting our stomachs anyway ;)   For a sleek black, white and gold palette, check out this great example. The matching glossy black door arches and bookshelf add a...

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