Beautiful People of Dubai

Everytime I go to a Sandance event, at Atlantis, at Palm Dubai, I am impressed by the number of beautiful people I see. They seem to have come out of the woodworks in Dubai, all converging on this island of artifice and to this event of casual festivity.

The majority of these people are young, single, fit and trendy. They are urbanites from around the world. Dubai has a smashing cocktail of people from all places and races!

They are not beautiful in the classical sense of the term. They are not a sophisticated crowd like you find in Saint Tropez, nor are they bling like in Beyrouth, nor are they groovy like in Los Angeles, nor are they trashy like they are in Ibiza.

I have had occasion to observe them closely, to dance to their rythme and to wonder where they nurse their hangovers. Are they dentists, bankers, gym trainers, advertising employees, waiters, teachers, hotel receptionists, shopkeepers, lawyers, chefs, cars salesmen, make up artists, housewives?

Dubai was once a port in the desert where beachcombers, generally men without their families, came in search of fortune. A decade later, they brought their families and Dubai became a family style haven, with very little entertainment. Then Dubai became glitzy and the glitz attracted the glitz makers and glitz seekers.



However what I am referring to with the Sandance crowd isn't the bling crowd at Cavalli, nor the eurotrash crowd of 400, nor the rave crowd of Trilogy, nor the exclusive crowd of Armani: it is a melange. I call it the "bikram crowd".

Yes, the hot room at Club Stetch does attract beautiful people too. Excluding the blogger-observer that I am, I would say it takes a beautiful soul to enter that room: courage, curiosity, strength and energy.

I have a funny theory that if I were caught in traffic on Sheikh Zayed Road and I took a sample of 200 cars, 10% of them would have tried Bikram yoga. 10% of that sample crowd is crazy enough to have tried at least ONCE.

Every session of bikram brings the fanatics, the once in a blue-mooners, the steadfast yogis and then there are the firstcomers. There will always be a handful of firstcomers at every single session. The ones that will never come back. In the hot room,  all these yogis look handsome in their attempt to perform. I have dragged my fittest friends and relatives, the knock out blond, the hunks, the beautiful brunettes, the muscled relatives, the rock star husband!

In this room, I have observed a handsome couple, the man is very tall, his face is chisled, his body is muscular. He comes with his partner, a striking brunette with perfect proportions and a relaxed disposition. They are frequent yogis. I have seen them at concerts: the Fletcher concert at Trilogy and the Robert Miles concert at Armani. They are the yogis turned party groovers. The beautiful people of Dubai.

When I dance on the beach at Atlantis to Example or Faithless, I can be sure that 80% of those beautiful people have tried bikram yoga.....at least once!