Mila M collection to be showcased at Abu Dhabi Fashion Week in March

Notes and media contacts

The event will take place from 15-18th March at the Emirates Place Hotel in Abu Dhabi. For more details log on to: http://www.abudhabifashionweek.com

For more informaiton please contact Summera Zaheer:Weber Shandwick: Tel: 00971 4 321 00 77
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For more informaiton please contact Ayman AlSaleh, Maven Corporate

Abu Dhabi Fashion Week
Abu Dhabi Fashion Week has been created by Maven Corporate Ltd as part of the initiatives underway to develop in the United Arab Emirates as a new centre for the fashion industry in the region. In this process, Maven has formed an alliance with Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (the organizers of Milan Fashion Week) to develop the Abu Dhabi Fashion Week into a glamorous, business-driven international event.

In a unique step for the region, the Abu Dhabi Fashion Week will form part of the international fashion calendar alongside the fashion weeks of New York, London, Milano and Paris. The inaugural Abu Dhabi Fashion Week will be launched in Abu Dhabi at the Emirates Palace Hotel from the 15-18 March, 2008.

About: Maven Corporate Ltd
Maven is an international company with offices in the UAE, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Brussels. Maven is a services company specializing in the fashion, apparel and textiles industries. The Company's services focus on design, branding, marketing, retailing, sourcing and investment.

Maven works extensively with international and regional brands and retailers to assist them in expanding their operations into new markets and in creating the new structures, alliances and processes that allow them to do this in an optimal fashion. Maven maintains a global network of partners, clients and investors from North America, the EU and Asia, whilst focusing the bulk of its work on the Middle East & North Africa and South and East Asia (SAMENA).

About: Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana
Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (the National Chamber for Italian Fashion) is a not-for-profit association that disciplines, co-ordinates and promotes the development of Italian Fashion.

The Association represents all the highest cultural values of Italian Fashion. It aims to protect, co-ordinate and strengthen its image, both in Italy and abroad. In accordance with the statutory provisions, the Association is the point of reference, as well as the preferential mouthpiece, for all the national and international initiatives aimed at valuing and promoting Italian style, customs and Fashion.

Right from the year of its foundation, in 1958, the Association has pursued a policy of organizational support aimed at the knowledge, promotion and development of Fashion through events with a highly intellectual image in Italy and abroad. Recent agreements over international calendars, which have led to the signing of the Italian-French agreement, have given Milan and the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana the role of undisputed protagonist on the international fashion scene, thus also contributing to the consolidation of alliances with London and New York.