From the traditional alleyways and roads of Deira and Bur Dubai, to the cosmopolitan Baniyas square, and the new and glamorous spaces of Sheikh Zayed Road, the Downtown area around Burj Khalifa, Marina and beyond, one can encounter a vibrant urban setting which defies the conventional and cliched image of a city that is exclusive, catering only to the rich and privileged.
"They feel glamorous in a glamorous space and rich in a rich space.
"They feel glamorous in a glamorous space and rich in a rich place.
Reporters flocked to gawk at glamorous space-age concepts or thundering sports cars, leaving more humdrum, and practical, machines to the tire-kicking public.
"I'm the gilded youth who will ease through life effortlessly," said Ivan. "I'm the glamorous space cadet," Grace added.
She shunned office space in Santa Monica, where ShoeDazzle and BeachMint are based, for less glamorous space downtown, where 20-something Nasty Gal employees in mesh crop tops, leggings and platform shoes stand out from the paralegals.
A glamorous space within the Esplanade, Singapore's new performing arts center — popular name, "the Durian," after the smelly fruit — it combines high-backed chairs, floating fabric panels and dazzling lighting effects.
But the iPhone is also poised to make huge strides in a somewhat less glamorous space: study guides.
Now, if the thought of watching any and all of those selectors rolling through their USBs in an imtimate, iconic, and impossibly glamorous space doesn't appeal then, well, we're not sure you're reading the right site.
Reviewing the episode "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" for The Daily Telegraph James Walton was sceptical about the fact that "some of the fawning [over Captain Jack] even came from the main baddie" and what he felt to be the indication that the character was "thrown into the mix on the principle that one glamorous space-travelling bisexual isn't enough".
In short, the hotel's glamorous public spaces, not the private ones, are the draw.
