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SANTA MONICA, Calif. --
Discount shoe retailer Payless wanted to prove a point, so it opened a luxury shoe store called Palessi and filled it with the brand's inexpensive footwear.

So-called fashion influencers were invited to shop at the Santa Monica store, and some paid $200, $400 and $600 for shoes that typically cost $20 to $40.

The influencers commented on the quality of the Payless shoes, and many couldn't believe it when they found out the shoes were not designer.

Palessi made $3,000 in sales in just three hours. The buyers got their money back and free shoes for their trouble.

The stunt certainly paid off as the campaign has gone viral.
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November 30, 2018
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The year's best documentaries about business explore subjects including #MeToo, women in STEM careers, and the future of the American dream.

It's been a great year for documentaries about business and innovation.

In 2018, documentary filmmakers tackled complex, important subjects ranging from blockchain technology to the #MeToo movement to the corruption of the American dream. Whether you plan to spend the holidays reflecting on the past year--or trying to escape it--there's a strong group of business docs you won't want to miss.

Here are the eight best business documentaries of 2018.
1. Paris to Pittsburgh

In the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement, this documentary follows the individuals fighting the impacts of climate change in their own backyards. The film also focuses on small-business owners in Iowa who have embraced renewable energy to keep their businesses competitive and a nonprofit in California that helps businesses hire former inmates trained in solar panel installation. Paris to Pittsburgh premieres on Nat Geo worldwide on December 12
2. Generation Wealth

Acclaimed filmmaker Lauren Greenfield's latest documentary makes the case that America's obsession with wealth has corrupted the American dream. The film looks at both super-rich hedge fund managers and those struggling to make ends meet, serving as a cautionary tale for entrepreneurs--and everyone else--that making money your top priority is unhealthy and unsustainable. Generation Wealth is available to stream on YouTube, GooglePlay, and Amazon Prime
3. Trust Machine:
The Story of Blockchain

Stories about blockchain technology were everywhere in 2018, but filmmaker Alex Winter's documentary is a comprehensive account of the digital ledger that records cryptocurrency transactions--and holds the potential for so much more. The film also follows hacktivist and blockchain expert Lauri Love as he fights extradition and tries to show the world that blockchain technology can be used for noble causes like fighting hunger. Trust Machine is playing in select theaters and will be available to stream soon
4. Science Fair

Winner of the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival, Science Fair follows nine high school students as they compete in The International Science and Engineering Fair. The competition takes 1,700 of the smartest teens on the planet--all of whom are trying to change the world through science--and crowns one bright young mind as Best in Fair. Science Fair is playing in select theaters and will be available to stream soon
5. Won't You Be My Neighbor?

As the cardigan-clad host of the renowned children's show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Fred Rogers revolutionized educational TV, forging millions of meaningful relationships with viewers through his unique understanding of the link between emotion and learning. An expert on communication with both children and adults, Rogers's lessons about personal growth continue to inspire educators around the world. Won't You Be My Neighbor? is available to stream on YouTube, GooglePlay, and Amazon Prime
6. Seeing Allred

Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred has been fighting injustice against women for decades, but the rise of the #​MeToo movement has helped create a sense of urgency around fighting sexual harassment and abuse--in and out the workplace. This documentary looks at what drives Allred to continue fighting for women and her recent work on the sexual assault cases brought against famous, powerful men. Seeing Allred is available to stream on Netflix
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Mercury 13

In 1961, as part of a privately funded program, 13 women took the same physiological tests that NASA used for spaceflight, only to have their hopes dashed when a team of men became astronauts. This documentary profiles the eager renegades who could have been the first women in space, and who led the charge for other women interested in STEM careers. Mercury 13 is available to stream on Netflix
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McQueen
This documentary explores the career and inspirations of Alexander McQueen, one of the most beloved and respected fashion designers of modern times. Before his suicide in 2010, McQueen challenged the status quo with his macabre vision and controversial clothes, forever altering the fashion industry. McQueen is available to stream on YouTube and GooglePlay.
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November 23, 2018
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"I was weaned on musicals ... totally transfixed by the plumes and the paste jewels. I told myself that one day I would stage a revue," Jean Paul Gaultier said of a childhood dream that has now taken shape at the Folies Bergeres, a landmark Parisian theatre.

"The Fashion Freak Show", which opens to the public next week, traces the journey of the enfant terrible of French couture from his humble origins in a Paris suburb to international stardom.

The 66-year-old began his career as an assistant with Pierre Cardin and a pathbreaking trail followed that introduced man skirts, older men, fuller women and heavily tattooed models to the runway and the iconic cone bra immortalised by pop diva Madonna.

"I have always loved freaks, strange people, troublemakers, aesthetics which blend and unexpected encounters like when the boy from the streets consorts with the duchess," Gaultier said.

The spectacle showcases 200 of his creations and begins with "Nana", Gaultier's childhood teddy bear for whom he made a conical bra when he was just five.

It shows a young Jean Paul being regularly punished in school for drawing gowns in the classroom and goes on to his stint at Cardin, his first collection and his inspirations and muses, including Kylie Minogue, Madonna and Pedro Almodovar.

Boasting colours screaming Florida and enlivened by energetic disco beats, the revue also showcases the quirky collections of the bad boy of fashion over the years such as his corset dresses and the Perfecto gown.

Gaultier's life is laid bare with scenes from a gay cruising club and a moving moment when his lover and business partner Francis Menuge dies of AIDS.

The show brings together about 15 actors and dancers playing personalities who are "almost naked, tottering on high heels, generously proportioned and either wearing underpants or not", Gaultier said.

The designer, whose signature attire is a striped Breton jersey, has an important message for the audience at the end.

"Fashion is superficial. Have Fun! Be Free!"
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September 29, 2018
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Italian fashion giant Versace, known for its Medusa head logo and being one of the few remaining family-controlled businesses in the industry, is reportedly being sold to US fashion group Michael Kors.

The deal, worth around $2 billion, provides for the Versace family to continue to play a role, according to media reports.

Here are five things to know about the Milan-based luxury brand:

Gianni Versace, stylist of stars

Born in Calabria to a dressmaker mother, Gianni Versace began designing clothes at a young age and moved to fashion capital Milan when he was 25. In 1978, he presented his first signature collection, with his brother Santo taking care of the label's business arm.

"He was a 360-degree creator, a real artist, he had a pure creative vision on colours and materials," Stefania Saviolo, director of the luxury and fashion centre at Bocconi University, told AFP.

He wowed the showbiz world, dressing 'A'-listers from Madonna to Elton John, and getting supermodels like Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell to strut their stuff down the catwalk for him.

THAT Dress

Gianni Versace's collections were colourful, sexy and luxurious. His designs mixed baroque prints, animal skin motifs, bondage-style leather, slits and, especially, ultra-tight fits.

At the 1994 premiere of "Four Weddings and a Funeral", he dressed actress Liz Hurley in a famously suggestive black dress.

Made from silk and lycra, with a sharply plunging neckline and a long slit up the side, the dress was held together by several oversized golden safety pins.

The dress catapulted Hurley, then romantically involved with Hugh Grant, to fame and became simply known as "THAT dress".

Death and fall

On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot dead by luxury-obsessed male prostitute Andrew Cunanan as he returned to his luxury villa in Miami after buying the morning papers.

The killing shocked the worlds of fashion and show business, at a time when Versace the brand was "at its apex", said consultant David Pambianco.

Gianni's sister Donatella, then in charge of the Versus line, took over as artistic director, while Santo kept control of the money side of the business.

But the Versace brand's power shrank as management teams succeeded one after the other, employees were laid off and boutiques closed.

Donatella

Gianni's emblematic sister Donatella, 63, eternally tanned with dyed blonde hair and a face distinguished by multiple plastic surgery operations, has been in charge since 1997.

She was her brother's muse and confidante, worked at his side for 14 years and went into depression after his death. In 2005 she was treated for cocaine addiction.

After a shaky start, Donatella has risen to the challenge of running a highly successful fashion titan.

Versace 2.0

In recent years, "Versace has found 'the red carpet DNA' again after losing it as well as its very audacious, strong style," said Bocconi University's Saviolo.

Financially, the company has gone from strength to strength, from a turnover of 268 million euros in 2009 to 668 million euros in 2017. The company lost 7.4 million euros in 2016 but made a profit of 15 million euros in 2017.
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September 24, 2018
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London Fashion Week kicked off Friday with all eyes on Victoria Beckham, who debuted at the event on the 10th anniversary of her label's launch, and on Burberry's new star designer Riccardo Tisci.

The ex-Spice Girl, celebrating a decade since her brand's 2008 unveiling in New York, has since defied the naysayers and won her peers' respect.

The Briton now heads a fashion empire valued at £100 million ($131 million) by the industry press, although her appearance in London is Beckham's first at the country's premiere fashion show.

"Ten years ago, when Victoria Beckham started, many saw her as just another example of a celebrity wanting to have a fashion range with no formal fashion training," University of Westminster Professor Andrew Groves told AFP.

"Through hard work and determination she has proved those early critics wrong."

- 'VB' on Piccadilly -

Ahead of her homecoming of sorts, the 44-year-old mother-of-four featured on London's legendary Piccadilly Circus advertising screens, fulfilling a childhood dream.

The designer's show, scheduled for Sunday, is expected to attract a host of VIPs, starting with the Beckham tribe -- her husband David and their four children.

British Vogue magazine, which features them on its October cover, is hoping some former bandmates may also attend.

"Fingers crossed for some Spice Girls on the front row," it wrote.

The other big highlight of London's week, dedicated to the spring-summer 2019 collections and which ends on Tuesday, will see Tisci present his much anticipated first collection for Burberry.

The Italian designer, formerly of Givenchy, replaced Christopher Bailey as chief creative officer of the luxury British fashion house in March and will showcase on Monday.

He was credited with reviving Givenchy during his 12-year tenure there, by cultivating links with celebrities.

His arrival at Burberry is intended to reinvigorate the brand following disappointing profits in recent years.

Burberry is relying on Tisci, praised for his ability to blend street-wear with high fashion, to re-energise its high-end presence.

"Riccardo's creative vision will reinforce the ambitions we have for Burberry and position the brand firmly in luxury," chief executive Marco Gobbetti said in a statement.

- Avoiding Brexit damage -

Naomi Braithwaite, senior lecturer in fashion marketing and branding, Nottingham Trent University, told AFP that Tisci "seems a perfect choice for Burberry."

"His tendency to not be afraid to take creative risks and innovate (are) characteristics that have underpinned Burberry's philosophy in the last few years," she said.

Originally from Taranto, a port city in southern Italy, Tisci trained at Central Saint Martins, a top arts and design college in London.

He has already started to make his own mark on the venerable British brand since arriving, recently unveiling on Instagram a new company monogram.

A white "B" is interwoven with red ribbons to form the initials of Thomas Burberry, who founded the fashion house in 1856.

But Friday, it was all about colour: lemon, pink, and mint green for Ireland's rising star Richard Malone, who is just 26, and lavender and anise of Turkey's Bora Aksu.

Former Lady Gaga designer Nicolas Formichetti, who came up with the singer's famous meat dress, mixed sportswear and sequins to create a festive wardrobe for Nicopanda.

Inspired by pop culture of the 1990s, it featured a translucent cowboy hat and star-studded beach shorts.

Not to be outdone, Pam Hogg made her mark with a vibrant show inspired by ancient Egyptian queens, replete with golden robes and towering headwear, some of which looked to be a take on the Bearskin hats worn by the Queen's Guards.

"It was fantastic," Hogg said of the show and the reception.

British Fashion Council chairwoman Stephanie Phair could not avoid mentioning the elephant in the room: Britain's impending departure from the European Union in March next year.

Phair said the industry needed to open a dialogue with the British government about preparations to ensure global-facing fashion brands can continue to operate smoothly amid Brexit.

"To argue the case where damage could be done is something the British Fashion Council already does every day," she said.
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September 15, 2018
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US-Palestinian sisters Bella and Gigi Hadid proved they are in high demand at New York Fashion Week

DUBAI: The US-Palestinian Hadid sisters proved they are in high demand at New York Fashion Week by walking the runway for luxury label Oscar de la Renta on Tuesday.

Bella kicked things off in a fringed, sarong-like skirt with a tulip print and a white, one-armed top. And Gigi finished the show in a long, sheer black lace gown — also with one arm free — with delicate ruffles running up the leg, the Associated Press reported.

Two years into their tenure at the helm of Oscar de la Renta, designers Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia continue to seek new ways to inject a more relaxed vibe into the label — while maintaining its famous craftsmanship.

This week, the pair put on a rooftop runway show that felt like a sunny Mediterranean vacation — well, once it actually stopped drizzling. There were bold prints, lots of fringe, crocheted dresses and loose, comfy caftans taking their place among the elegant, structured gowns the label is best known for.

The two moods of the collection could perhaps best be sampled by looking at the show’s opening and closing garments, each modeled by a famous Hadid sister.

Backstage after the high-profile show, which drew celebrities like Nicki Minaj (and her mother), Kate Beckinsale and Dianna Agron.

The designers agreed that each season, they’ve experimented just a bit more with the aesthetic of the label’s legendary founder. This time, they thought about all the countries they’d traveled to for inspiration, and then actually made a print from a map of them, which appears on several garments.

“You can see, it goes from Turkey, to Morocco, to China,” Kim said, pointing to a photo on her look board backstage.

A number of the garments had a relaxed, looser fit, and Kim said that had something to do with the weather this year. “It was so hot this summer that I think I personally felt the need for looser clothes,” she said.

Chief among them: Kaftans, perhaps the ideal vacation garment. “We always had kaftans but we never really showed them,” said Kim. “But I’m starting to realize that that’s all I want to wear in summer.”

Colors included a lot of neutrals, but also bold colors like bright canary yellow, and a new terra cotta red. Speaking of canaries, one highly whimsical touch was a white birdcage purse — with a wallet inside, resembling a bird. Not exactly your traditional de la Renta accessory.

Earlier in the week, the Hadid sisters walked in Prabal Gurung’s show.

The designer, who sent models from 35 countries around the globe down his runway on Sunday, chose to represent a world where “all humanity reigns,” according to the Associated Press.

The fashionable crowd was also treated to the designer’s first-ever menswear collection. Among his men was Anwar Hadid, joined in the show by his supermodel sisters.
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September 13, 2018
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Legendary designer and bibliophile Karl Lagerfeld made a pitch for immortality Tuesday by setting his very Parisian Chanel haute couture show in front of the Academie Francaise.

The venerable institution, whose members are known as "the immortals", was the backdrop of the spectacular set of the banks of the Seine that Lagerfeld had built inside the Grand Palais in the French capital.

Everything from the bouquinistes' stands with their vintage Vogue magazines and books eulogising Chanel, to the Paris pavements and lampposts was recreated in staggeringly realistic detail.

All it lacked to pass for the real thing was the tourist tat and a few beggars.

Lagerfeld even roped in his godsons Hudson and Jameson Kroenig to play riverside booksellers with along with their father, the square-jawed American model Brad Kroenig.

All, of course, were dressed in Chanel.

Lagerfeld told reporters later that he can see the Quai Voltaire and the academies that act as the guardians of French culture from his windows.

At 84, the Kaiser is now too old to be admitted into any of the august bodies housed below the gilded dome of Institut de France.

In fact he is nearly a decade over the age limit to be a sage, yet the German-born designer shows no signs of slowing with two haute couture shows in two days -- with another for Fendi Wednesday.

Despite appearing doddery on his feet recently, there was almost a spring in his step Tuesday as he took the bow for a classily restrained autumn winter haute couture collection marked by slit dresses and sleeves.

- Victorian chic -

"Karl is as fresh as a bridegroom," Conde Nast maven Karina Dobrotvorskaya cooed on Instagram over her picture of him with his "bride", the traditional finale of couture shows.

The pale green two-piece dress, inspired by the olive leaf motif worn by academicians, was worn by South Sudanese-Australian model Adut Akech, who also opened the last Chanel Cruise show. The South Sudanese-British model Alek Wek, who has recently come out of retirement, was the first black model to be given that honour 14 years ago.

Like the Dior show the previous day, Lagerfeld went for a refined sobriety of sharply-cut black and grey slit dresses, worn over short thigh-riding miniskirts.

Many were lit up by flashes of crystals, feathers and glittery-edged embroidery, which pointed up the zipped slit arms.

With Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and South Korean heartthrob Han Hyo-joo in the front row with singers Lily Allen and Pharrell Williams, Lagerfeld often paired black with silver, giving nostalgic touches a metallic futuristic edge.

While much of the collection had a revved-up retro late 1940s feel with ankle boots and models' hair styled in cockerel quiffs and some wearing fascinator hats. T here were also Belle Epoque Victorian flourishes in satin and tulle dresses with glittery tweed capes and long fingerless gloves.

- Armani's army -

Fashion's other great veteran, Giorgio Armani, who is a mere 83, began his 95-look show with a similar black, white and silver palette before unleashing a string of bubblegum pink gowns festooned with feathers and rosebuds.

As ever, sheath silhouettes dominated with the designer sending out a string of shimmering ivory-hued creations in the final third of his show for his Giorgio Armani Prive Couture line so adored by films star like Cate Blanchett.

Stephane Rolland, who dressed Beyonce for her latest video "Apeshit" shot in the Louvre museum, draped his models in a series of spectacular gowns and cowls which almost seemed custom-made for the US singer.

Haute couture shows -- which only take place in Paris -- are the creme de la creme of fashion.

Thousands of hours of work sometimes goes into the handmade dresses that can only be afforded by the richest women on the planet.

The label is accorded by the French industry ministry to acknowledge traditional craftsmanship in hand-sewn, custom-made garments using strict criteria.

Only 14 fashion houses currently boast the recognition, including Chanel, Christian Dior, Giambattista Valli, Givenchy, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Maison Margiela, Schiaparelli, Alexis Mabille and Stephane Rolland.
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July 03, 2018
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"You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets," says the doctor to Cecilia Lisbon in The Virgin Suicides, to which she replies, "Obviously Doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl." Being young can be excruciating. Nothing really matters and everything really matters; 'nothing' being whether it's too late to change your career path now, or how much money you've got in the bank or whether you should lower your standards because your romance bounce rate is 90 percent, and 'everything' being how the hell you're going to fit in and find your place in the world.
When you're a teenager, you'll probably be the most emotional, irrational, passionate, obsessive, depressive, bored and excitable you'll ever be in your life (at least all at once), but being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up. Larry Clark, director of Kids, the ultimate picture of teenagehood (if a slightly more extreme, Clockwork Orange-esque version) told i-D in a 2008 interview, "It's the time when many people have a lot more freedom than they will ever have, where you're basically being taken care of, and you have all this free time to explore, and have fun." When you eventually do grow up, you realise that that's the only time you'll ever have the luxury to just hang out at skate parks, be in a band, and do stupid things like pierce your own ears with a very much unsterilised safety pin.
As Steve Carrell puts it in Little Miss Sunshine, "High school - those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that." Picture your 11-year-old self next to your 18-year-old self. You changed. I'm in the early half of my twenties now and I'm almost certain that I'll stay pretty much the same throughout this whole decade, but the things one has to endure in those seven years of secondary school are like nothing else.
For a few people, high school is easy, like riding a bike. For most, the bike is on fire and everything is on fire and you're in hell. In 1993, Dazed and Confused heartthrob Randall "Pink" Floyd expresses a sentiment that is still felt pretty much universally by teenagers today: "If I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."
Let's start in Year 7. If you were a loner in primary school, then you were either fine with also being a loner in secondary school, or you saw it as your chance to reinvent yourself as the confident, funny, potential you. If you were popular in primary school, then secondary school was a gamble as to whether you could keep your status in check. If it worked out, then great, you won at school. If it didn't, then the next few years were a misanthropic descent into emo. That's when the real insecurities, isolation and vulnerability of adolescence set in. Bear in mind that this is being written by someone for whom neither option worked out… My not so sweet sixteenth year of living was spent sitting in the dark watching old River Phoenix interviews, listening to Nirvana and feeling every word.
Then comes a series of firsts, the kind that as well as getting you into a lot of trouble, will open up a whole new world to you. There's your first kiss, the first time you smoke a cigarette, the first time you discover alcohol, the first time you discover real alcohol, and the first time you have sex. In 1983, Larry Clark published a photo series called Teenage Lust. I won't go into whether his chronicles of kids shooting up heroin or having underage sex are creepy or not, you can read up and use your own moral barometer to measure that. But the series perfectly depicts the overwhelming hunger of teenage sexuality. Picture Lux Lisbon on the roof, doing what Peaches later articulated in her song Fuck the Pain Away. It's fuelled by a devastating curiosity that is met with excitement and embarrassment in equal measure. Losing your virginity becomes a matter of anyhow-anyway urgency, not only due to your own craving but also due to, come on now, peer pressure. Once just one of your friends has lost it, the race is on, which means if you were deflowered by your first love, consider yourself lucky. For the majority it was an awkward scramble to get it over with before school was out.
Then there's love. The first time you fall in it, it's all about passion and fireworks and the fact that you'd bleed for each other. It's only when you fall in love again that you realise the first was mild infatuation. When we spoke to actress Emily Browning last year, she summed up the phases of young love like so: "I've been in a relationship for two years and this feels like the only time I've been in love… Now I feel like love is when the person you're with really wants you to be the best version of yourself and you want the same for them and you can sit at home watching True Detective together for five hours and be disgusting together." Sweet.
The clichéd benchmarks of coming of age are played out time and again on screen, but how can you measure what that even means? It's far too simplistic to pin it down to one thing like falling in love, losing your virginity or getting your driving licence. In Crimes and Misdemeanors, Sam Waterston says, "It's called wisdom. It comes to us suddenly. We realise the difference between what's real and deep and lasting versus the superficial payoff of the moment." I think that, whether it comes to you suddenly, or sinks in slowly over the years, the realisation that being yourself is the only thing that you can be for any long period of time, and the only thing you should be, is the real measure of coming of age.
This generation may be doing it younger, as social media takes over, and for every kid today who measures their social success in thumbs ups and likes, there's one who is wise beyond their years. For teenagers like Malala Yousafzai, Willow Smith and Tavi Gevinson, who are so aware of the issues that need to be fought, that wisdom seems to be arriving sooner, and that's not a bad thing.
Whatever you do, at whatever time in your life, you come of age. No matter how many rules they make you follow, "you gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N", and remember [blows smoke ring and pokes a finger through it], "don't let it die a virgin!" 
September 02, 2015
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By Alyssa Bailey
​Earlier this summer, it was reported that a Rihanna fashion line is coming. And, because Rihanna can't stop/won't stop/is the best, a beauty line is also happening. A Refinery29 reporter asked the singer yesterday during her New York appearance whether the Fenty Beauty trademark she registered on the sly last year was for a cosmetics line. 
"Oh wow, that's crazy, how did you know that?" Rihanna replied. "That is definitely something I am going to have my hands on and would love to do. It's something that I've always wanted to do, but I've always had so much on my hands. But, this time, I'm going to make sure it happens. I'm going to find some time between albums and fragrance to do that. I promise."
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Rihanna has big dreams for products. Her fantasy makeup items include "lashes that could just put themselves on...lipstick that doesn't move, but doesn't dry your lips out, that you don't need a liner for. I mean, it sounds so unreal." But if anyone can make them happen, RiRi can. The girl simply does life best.
September 02, 2015
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Nigerian British born Rachel Alaba Ekundayo (RAE) has fully decided to pursue a career in music. At first sight, the 24year old graduate of Marketing & Advertising from University Of Arts, London who stands at 5"7.5, strikes you as a model with high potentials only for you to be surpiised that she has never modeled or ever considered modelling before in her life.
Armed with a powerful voice, Rachel Alaba, the 2011 Miss Liverpool Afrikana is determined to fulfill one of her oldest desires, which has been to entertain, inspire and touch lives with her music.

 

And while growing up in Essex, U.K. under the strong guidance and tutelage of her parents Mr. & Pastor Mrs Ekundayo, she has performed covers of some popular classic love songs at events in Essex, such as "King Of Sorrow by Sade Adu" who is her mentor in the music industry and few others
Below is her official debut single "True Sensation" produced by prolific producer Chillings. She played around the song,, but her singing dexterity was undeniably present, which goes along way to show "variety" she has to contribute to the Nigeria's Music Industry.
Download Link : https://t.co/MP9liZBQhu

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December 09, 2014
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Paris-based soul singer, Asa showed she isn’t just a music icon but also a style star to watch yesterday at The Future Awards Africa 2014 awards ceremony, rocking a gorgeous, exquisitely beaded cape dress from Iconic Invanity’s S/S 2015 Collection which debuted just about five weeks ago. 
She performed from her album, ‘Bed of Stone’ for the first time in Nigeria at The Future Awards.


December 08, 2014

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