Tala Samman, based between London and Dubai is a fashion student at the London College of Fashion by day and fashion blogger by night for style portal, myfashdiary.com. Her style blog, myfashdiary.com has been nominated in Ahlan!

Magazine’s Best in Dubai awards, as well as the Marie Claire UK Blog and Twitter awards. Tala was also one of Dubai’s Hot 100 for year 2011. Born in Chicago and originally Syrian, Tala grew up in Dubai and currently lives between London and Dubai.

She has worked for names such as Grazia Magazine, Tom Ford and Halston. On the side, Tala is a contributing editor to several publications, a stylist and fashion consultant.

Tala has hosted and styled for numerous events between Dubai, London and Doha, and has been featured in publications such as The Guardian newspaper in the UK, Grazia UK, Grazia Middle East, Harpers Bazaar Arabia and Marie Claire Middle East to name a few.

She has also been featured on TV and Radio in the Middle East.