Karl Lagerfeld is designing an island for the Sin City of the Middle East.

“The legendary Chanel designer has teamed up with prestigious Miami-based architecture firm Oppenheim and the KOR hotel group to create the manmade island situated 20 km off the coast of Dubai.” -Vogue UK.

Even through the economic turmoil, the super-luxe must really need more exclusive, isolated places for their massive spending and lavish grandeur. Isla Moda is to be the world’s first-ever “fashion island.” By 2014, it will be up and running, equipped with luxury boutiques, three highest-end hotels, and 150 villas.

A slideshow of Isla Moda’s fancy renderings was posted on NYmag.
The captions were on point so I didn’t change a thing.

Isla Moda is a magical land, where grass grows indoors, waterfalls spill from nowhere into rivers that disappear into black holes, and, most important, the roofs look like disco balls.

The futuristic buildings resemble modern shelving. Perfect for storing spendy residents, while allowing them ample sunlight for tanning that never has to stop.

You know a place is fancy when the peacocks are albino.

And the scene out of Inception looks like the beginning of a fun night at the club (models! bottles! BOATS!), instead of your mind’s innermost fears eating themselves.

Shoppers apparently can enjoy malls where everything is gold-plated and runway models pop out of bright corners at random.

The lighting is designed to make sure everyone always looks their best — you know, as though you’re underwater all the time.

Residents will wear an obscene number of all-white outfits, and travel by James Bond’s future speedboat.

The Others can view the fabulous sea dwellings from shore. And wonder how all that glass and all those canals will fare in a natural disaster.

Basically, it looks like a floating fish tank.

Or a computer chip! The future of living — for, like, five people — is here.

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