Dipesh Depala On His Secrets To Success & The Evolution Of The Luxury Landscape In The Middle East

SheerLuxe Podcast

Mia Luckie

Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Arts

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week on the SheerLuxe Middle East podcast, Georgie Coleridge Cole is joined by Dipesh Depala. The two talk about Dipesh’s early life, including what it was like to grow up in Dubai, the experience of losing his father at a young age, and the changing landscape of fashion and luxury in the Middle East. They then discuss how he established himself in the region – from his early days running Red Velvet Nation to the importance of networking and making connections. Dipesh also explains how he met his Qode co-founder, Ayman Fakoussa, and the journey of building the agency across the GCC. Finally, the pair end on a more personal note, touching on Dipesh’s love for fashion and buying better, his health journey and advice for raising children in the region.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Georgie Corish Cole and welcome to today's Sherlock's Midleas Success Stories podcast.
0:18.0	I am absolutely delighted to be joined by Depeche de Pala, who is co-founder and managing
0:24.5	partner of The Code. The Code, we're going to come on to the Code. The Code is the original
0:31.4	premium luxury and lifestyle communications and events agency in Dubai.
0:37.9	It's also part of a global network of agencies in 15 cities worldwide.
0:43.6	It specialises in campaigns across the MENA region and India.
0:48.4	And you also have offices in Riyadh and clients that include Dior IWC, Army Nichols.
0:56.6	I mean, we could go on because the client list is extremely impressive and endless.
1:01.7	Also, a lot of F&B as well, I know.
1:04.8	You've also raised tens of thousands of pounds for UNICEF.
1:09.2	You've lived here for 30 years, Dupesh.
1:11.7	You were an early adopted of digital media.
1:13.6	I mean, I feel like this is meant to be.
1:15.3	If ever there was a success story, it's today.
1:18.9	We're here to talk about your career, the lessons you've learned along the way,
1:23.7	fashion and luxury industry.
1:26.2	And yeah, thank you so much for joining me it's my pleasure
1:29.6	i feel like we've both got the memo i'm quite often in monochrome so you know it's no surprise
1:34.4	but we're blending in beautifully into this lovely space a big thank you to cue comms for hosting us
1:40.9	in their sunny new podcast space and yet yet, thank you for joining me.
1:44.6	Thank you for having me.
1:45.8	We often do some warm-up questions to sound check.
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