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Part 2 Interview of Nigeria/New York's Fashion Designer Lola Faturoti
We complete our interview with Nigeria/New York's Fashion Designer Lola Faturoti. Here, Lola discusses some tips African designers can use to get noticed in the USA/European fashion industries.

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A Designer in the Making: The Early Years of Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein knew by the time he was five what he wanted to spend his life doing. He was going to be a fashion designer and no one was going to stop him. Indeed, Klein would go on to become one of the most respected designers in the fashion industry, with a billion dollar company and a name brand that can be found on almost everything from jeans to perfume to underwear. Both his unique fashion sense and his marketing genius have earned him the nickname ‘Calvin the Conqueror’ for the impact he has had on the global fashion industry throughout his astonishingly successful 40-year career.

Humble Beginnings: The Early Years of ‘Coco’ Chanel
The simple mention of the name ‘Chanel’ and images of luxury, grandeur and haute couture spring up in minds across the world. As one of the most recognized and venerated brands in fashion history, Chanel came from the impoverished streets of France to revolutionize women’s fashion and liberate it from its restrictions. Thirty years after her death, Chanel’s lasting impact on the fashion world can still be felt.

Russell Simmons and Kimora Lee
They are two of the largest names in the hip hop and fashion industries, but behind closed doors Russell Simmons and Kimora Lee have also become celebrities for their rocky relationship with one another. The two entrepreneurs met when Lee was just 17 years old. She was in her last year of high school and pursuing a modeling career, while the 35 year old Simmons was making his way in the hip hop industry. At six-feet tall, Simmons was immediately captured by Lee when he first saw her on a runway during New York City’s Fashion Week.

Interview With South Africa's Top Fashion Insider, Renato Palmi
South Africa's Renato Palmi an academic and also business developer for the clothing and fashion sector in South Africa discusses with Uduak Oduok aka Ladybrille the State of South Africa/ Africa's current Fashion Industry. He addresses issues on doing business in South Africa, expanding into the USA markets and the obstacles and challenges such as lack of business skills, and influx of cheaper Chinese imports that create challenges for Africa's fashion designers and the industry as a whole.
Part 2 Interview of Nigeria/New York's Fashion Designer Lola Faturoti
We complete our interview with Nigeria/New York's Fashion Designer Lola Faturoti. Here, Lola discusses some tips African designers can use to get noticed in the USA/European fashion industries.

Lucire Magazine's Jack Yan Offers Tips on How to Get the Media to Notice You!
A big believer in Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR] and a very savvy media expert, Jack Yan is the publisher of the global fashion magazine Lucire. He is also an identity and global branding consultant, management consultant, a cross-media specialist, an international columnist, author and speaker. He holds a law degree from Victoria University of Wellington Law School in New Zealand, has been profiled and interviewed in too numerous a publication and TV shows to name. Jack Yan shares with LADYBRILLE.com the importance of media, branding, and how African fashion professionals such as models and designers can feature on the glossy fashion pages of a magazine such as Lucire.
African fashion features on Fashion Television
The always insightful program Fashion Television has two exciting podcasts on African fashion posted online.
Nyakio Kamoche Launches Safi Fragrance
By now, you are probably familiar with Nyakio Kamoche. The first generation American with Kenyan heritage who launched Nyakio, a sucessful skin care line based on family recipes and ingredients from Kenya. Nyakio's skin care line is sold online and in over a hundred and eighty nine boutiques around the country. Just recently, the fierce entrepreneur diversified her portfolio to launch a fragrance line, Safi Fragrance. Of course Ladybrille had to catch up with the very Ladybrille woman to see how she does it.

Bola Atta, Editor-in-Chief True Love West Africa, Personality of the Month!
Fashion icon and Editor-in-Chief for Vogue, Anna Wintour, is one personality that helped raise the profile of fashion/lifestyle magazines from mediocre to excellent. In Nigeria, Bola Atta, Editor-in-Chief for TRUE LOVE West Africa Magazine a subsidiary of South Africa's Media24 Publications, has had the same effect. Atta through her management of TRUE LOVE West Africa has succeeded in raising the bar of fashion and lifestyle magazines in Nigeria from mediocre to superior quality, commanding millions of loyal readers. Her hard work, brilliant creative vision and managerial skills earns her Ladybrille®Nigeria Personality of the Month for August. Read on as we delve into media/publishing in Nigeria and of course reveal a lot more in our exclusive about the seemingly mysterious brilliant Ms. Atta!

Keith Springer Wealth Manger in Sacramento CA Quoted In CNN Money on European Banks
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