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03/06/2026

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01/06/2026

Discover our new space in , where scent becomes story

26/05/2026

Scents have a way of becoming memories.
And memories have a way of bringing us home. 🤍

This Eid-ul-Adha, surround yourself with scents you’ll never forget.

What scent reminds you of Eid?

Eid Mubarak from Dastaangoi ✨
Light a candle, slow down, and create beautiful memories this season.

18/05/2026

What a week it’s been.

A heart felt thank you to the Art Dubai team, , , , and everyone else you guys are legends for pulling do such an incredible Art Dubai and for your continued love, support and belief in us.

A huge thank you to our own who while not physically being here was with me remotely and made everything happen so smoothly.

And to our artists for believing in what we are creating at

and finally to all our interns for their support during the fair.

The first time we ever do a fair and we couldn’t be happier with the outcome.

With gratitude,
Amad

17/05/2026

Pomegranates of Kandahar

Inspired by the sun-drenched orchards of Kandahar, this scent captures the bold, refreshing spirit of a fruit steeped in legend. Juicy pomegranate forms the heart of the fragrance — sweet yet tart — while cool peppermint cuts through with an invigorating freshness. A touch of rosemary grounds the blend, adding a green, herbal twist that lingers on the skin of memory.

Notes: Peppermint, pomegranate and rosemary

Available to shop at Dastaangoi.com

12/05/2026

The small ritual of taking a record out of its sleeve carefully, placing it on the turntable, cleaning the dust with your fingertips, and waiting for that soft crackle before the music begins. It made listening feel sacred.

Across the Global East, old records traveled through homes, cafés, taxis, weddings, and tiny shops hidden in crowded streets. Music from Cairo, Lahore, Istanbul, Khartoum, Beirut, Algiers — voices full of longing, joy, heartbreak, resistance. People did not listen alone all the time. They sat together, argued about songs, replayed favorite parts, told stories about singers they loved. Records became memory keepers.

There is something deeply human about vinyl culture that feels missing today. Streaming gives us everything instantly, but old records asked for patience. You had to sit with an album. You had to feel it fully. Maybe that is why people still return to records. Not for nostalgia alone, but to remember what it feels like to truly listen.

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11/05/2026

Hawazin Alotaibi is a Saudi-American artist whose work explores themes of identity, masculinity, and self-expression in Gulf culture through soft, dreamlike imagery and mixed media. Her paintings often portray intimate and vulnerable figures, moving away from traditional representations of gender in the region. Drawing from social media aesthetics, personal memory, and digital culture, her work creates visuals that feel both nostalgic and contemporary at the same time.

08/05/2026

There is a certain intellectual depth to Hussein Chalayan’s work that continues to make it feel relevant far beyond fashion itself. Hussein Chalayan has always felt like the latter to us. The more we studied his collections, the more it became clear that he was never simply designing garments but he was creating conversations around memory, migration, identity, and the relationship between the body and the world around it.

What makes Chalayan’s work so compelling is the way he merges technology with emotion. He is often described as one of fashion’s great conceptual thinkers because his garments exist somewhere between clothing, sculpture, and engineering. He became known for integrating mechanics, architectural structures, unusual textiles, and digital technology into fashion long before it became common in the industry. One of his most iconic moments remains the collection where a wooden coffee table unfolded into a wearable skirt, while chair covers transformed into dresses to express a powerful reflection on displacement and the idea of carrying one’s home through clothing.

Born in Nicosia, Cyprus, to a Turkish Cypriot family, Chalayan later moved to London, where he studied at Central Saint Martins and gradually established himself as one of the most intellectually influential designers of his generation. His background plays an important role in understanding his work. There is a constant sense of movement within his collections, between East and West, tradition and futurism, technology and humanity. Rather than relying on surface-level glamour, Chalayan approached fashion almost like research, using garments to explore political tension, migration, architecture, anthropology, and the changing nature of identity in a modern world.

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