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Fashion<br />
Dubai Future Champions Festival<br />
Autumn’s<br />
best dressed<br />
ladies<br />
the<br />
winner<br />
<strong>Velvet</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> helped judge<br />
the Style Awards at Newmarket<br />
Racecourses Dubai Future<br />
Champions Festival last month<br />
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This year <strong>Velvet</strong> partnered once again with Newmarket Racecourses<br />
for The Style Awards at the Dubai Future Champions Festival,<br />
sponsored by The Spa at Bedford Lodge Hotel. I was on hand to help<br />
judge who would take home the coveted title of Best Dressed Lady,<br />
plus over £8,000 worth of prizes. The judges and I were unanimous<br />
in voting Sarah Weston as the winning lady. Sarah’s winning outfit<br />
consisted of a Ted Baker skirt, top by Closet, hat by Carol Kennelly,<br />
shoes by Hobbs and a bag from<br />
“Other key<br />
trends on the<br />
day were tweed,<br />
furs and lots of<br />
autumnal berry<br />
tones.”<br />
<strong>Velvet</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | <strong>November</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Aspinal of London. I loved the way<br />
she had taken a spring colour pallette<br />
of creams and pastels and worked<br />
in a deep mulberry and appropriate<br />
accessories to bring the look into<br />
autumn. Other key trends on the day<br />
were tweed, furs and lots of autumnal<br />
berry tones.<br />
Winning lady, Sarah Weston, took<br />
home an array of prizes including<br />
a Winter Retreat Spa Break for 2 people including overnight stay,<br />
dinner and breakfast plus £1000 worth of luxury ESPA beauty<br />
products courtesy of The Spa at Bedford Lodge Hotel, a 3 night<br />
stay at Offbeat Mara Camp for 2 people courtesy of Smokesilver<br />
Travel and Offbeat Safaris, a bouquet courtesy of Tolly’s Flowers, a<br />
bespoke piece of millinery courtesy of Laylaleigh Millinery, a leather<br />
handbag and purse courtesy of Whitehouse, Cox and Co., a personal<br />
styling session and £500 to spend courtesy of Hobbs, haircare<br />
and treatment courtesy of Sean Hanna Salon and fragrance from<br />
Escentric Molecules. Our two runners up, Louise Wong and Victoria<br />
Roberts, also received prizes from Fairfax & Favor, Shoehorne,<br />
Newmarket Racecourses, Abbeycroft Leisure, Coast, Escentric<br />
Molecules, Martha V, www.yourwardrobeedit.com and Sean Hanna.<br />
Sarah Weston<br />
From left to right<br />
Judge: Gemma Treby<br />
Runner Up: Louise Wong<br />
Winner: Sarah Weston<br />
Third Place: Victoria Roberts
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