Award Winning Architect, Designer, Art and Fashion Entrepreneur and Consultant, May Barber brings all-rounded expertise and knowledge in art, fashion buying and exhibition planning to showcase the cARTel’s forte as Dubai’s unique concept store, wearable art gallery and dynamic exhibitions platform. Awarded the Cityscape Architect of the year in 2008 and BP Innovative Design Award in 2009, May reinforces the ‘spatial’ nature about the cARTel in its physical qualities, designs and merchandise. Utilizing her skills of fashion buying obtained by the prestigious London College of Fashion and Touring the fashion weeks of Paris, London, Copenhagen and Tokyo, May Barber brings in the best of the must-know designers and avant garde artists from all over the world. With signature commissioned built work in her portfolio and published written articles on art and fashion, May extends her role in the cARTel serving as Editor-in-Chief of the cARTel bi-annual magazine and publication contributing with writing articles and managing contents and editorials. May contributes to the planning of the cARTel’s signature twice a year main anchor events of fashion exhibitions merging art, exhibitions and fashion in an interactive out of the box fashion and blurring the boundaries between architecture, fashion, art and design.