Alber Elbaz Heats Up Dubai

DUBAI — “Who needs New York? Who needs L.A.?” proclaimed Alber Elbaz to a huge crowd of people at a cocktail event Wednesday night at the One and Only Royal Mirage in Dubai, marking the designer’s first visit to the emirate. “It is all about heat and heart here,” said the designer, who hosted a cocktail to make guests feel like they were “part of the fashion family, not industry.” “Already a lot of brands have come here and everybody has a bigger party because the bigger the better, but I thought, ‘Let’s think small again,’” he mused. “Let’s do something smaller, going back to a sort of humbleness. Not about doing it on the 300th floor somewhere, but doing it in your grandmother’s garden.” If your grandmother is a sheikha, maybe: With nearly 400 guests roaming a candlelit Arabian courtyard carpeted with flowers, what the event lacked in true intimacy was made up for in the designer’s warmth in working the crowd. “I always say when you love people, they love you back. I felt very loved here and I gave it back,” he said, greeting guests, who clamored to take selfies with him. Also present at the party was Lanvin

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