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Asil Attar

Emirates Woman

2019

Five questions on style and leadership

A conversation on personal taste, jewellery as memory, and the interior life of a chief executive in the Gulf's luxury sector.

Key highlights

  • 01

    Jewellery is memory before it is ornament.

  • 02

    Personal taste and commercial instinct share a source.

  • 03

    A short-form portrait of leadership in the Gulf's luxury sector.

From the feature

Emirates Woman's five-question format produces a quieter portrait: how taste is formed, and what a chief executive notices when she is not working.

Jewellery is framed as memory, objects that record occasions, which is precisely why the category resists purely rational marketing.

The through-line is that personal conviction and commercial instinct are not separate faculties.

Summary written for this site. The original feature is published by Emirates Woman.