Fashion Designers
Mônot’s “Near Naked” Dresses Have the Celebrity Seal of Approval
If you’re not familiar with fashion brand Mônot, you’re about to be. The chances are you’ve seen the label’s looks on some of your favourite celebrities as the daring cutouts synonymous with the brand have become must-wear red carpet attire. Dua Lipa, Simone Ashley, Maya Jama, and JLo, to name a few, are fans, while its recent spring/summer 23 show at Paris Fashion Week brought all the drama. Despite still being in its infancy, debuting with a spring/summer 2019 collection, very few brands have blasted through the glass ceiling in the same way as Lebanese designer and head of Mônot, Eli Mizrahi. While many designers moved to more modest and muted designs, Mizrahi ran, seemingly at breakneck speed, in the opposite direction, creating the “near naked” dres...
Rua Carlota’s Sustainable Knitwear Is Completely Created From Secondhand Clothes
Rua Carlota is at the centre of the conscious fashion revolution. The London-based brand sources clothes that are destined for landfill and transforms them into colourful patchwork knitwear that sells out in minutes. Each piece is handmade by founder Charlotte Rose Kirkham who was previously selling secondhand clothes, until she asked herself: “What is happening to all of the pieces that aren’t interesting and don’t fit this curated aesthetic?” Since going viral on Instagram in 2020, Rua Carlota has been driven to change people’s perspective on waste culture. The brand’s spring project with Cadbury Creme Egg is a milestone for the designer who tells POPSUGAR that it inspired her to come out of her comfort zone, and approach her design process with a fres...
Celebrating Thierry Mugler’s Inimitable Legacy
Prolific fashion designer Thierry Mugler died on Jan. 23 at the age of 73. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the French designer helped to shape an era of colourful catwalks with artfully sculpted and larger than life designs. More recently, Thierry Mugler and his eponymous brand experienced a renaissance since stars like Cardi B and Kim Kardashian were often seen wearing his archival creations — and we couldn’t help but indulge in finding Mugler’s most over-the-top ’90s fashion designs. It was 2019 when Mugler charmed Instagram’s influential set of baddies. Cardi B showed up at the 2019 Grammys in a Mugler Couture oyster gown from 1995 that was inspired by the 1480’s painting The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. The following year, the “WAP” singer wore a...
Zendaya’s Sheer Nensi Dojaka Dress Marks a Sexy New Era For the Star’s Personal Style
Zendaya‘s name is synonymous with young Hollywood elegance, and her red carpet style has become notably sexier during the Dune press circuit. Following a futuristic Rick Owens gown at the Dune premiere in London, Zendaya wore emerging designer Nensi Dojaka to the afterparty at Chiltern Firehouse. Zendaya’s spaghetti-strap cut-out dress is a custom design from Nensi Dojaka’s spring/summer 2022 collection. It features sheer burgundy and mocha silk attached with contrasting black seams, and a fuchsia heart-shaped seam on the bodice. Stylist Law Roach paired the dress with stacked diamond rings and bracelets from Bulgari’s Serpenti collection, and Christian Louboutin So Kate pointed-toe pumps in the shade Safki. Emerging London-based Albanian designer Nensi Dojaka is a ...
Kai Collective’s Fisayo Longe Partners With Puma and Liberty to Celebrate Women Making Big Moves
As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you’ll like too. If you buy a product we have recommended, we may receive affiliate commission, which in turn supports our work. Puma and Liberty’s first collaboration is inspired by women who are thriving despite the challenges they face. Starring in the campaign are six impressive young British talents, including UN Women UK activist Emma Breschi, photographer Michaela Quan, founder of XYZZY collective Coumba Samba, editor of Bricks magazine Tori West, musician Chi Virgo — and Kai Collective founder Fisayo Longe. Puma x Liberty includes trainers, activewear, loungewear, and accessories that combine Puma’s signature styles with Liberty’s famous prints. Titled “Wild GardenR...
You’ll Soon Be Able to Shop Dua Lipa’s One-Shoulder Butterfly Crop Top
Dua Lipa is making a strong case for the return of Y2K style, and her favourite fashion item of the era is certainly butterfly details. After sweeping the 2021 Grammy awards in a sparkly Versace butterfly dress, the Future Nostalgia singer has consistently been repping all things butterflies — including jewellery, homeware — and now, a one-shoulder crop top that had us scurrying to find the designer. After a few hours of sleuthing on Instagram, we can confirm that Dua Lipa’s one-shoulder butterfly crop top is from emerging designer Masha Popova’s autumn/winter 2021 collection “You Make Me Dizzy”. The piece is part of a Popova’s first official collection since graduating from Central Saint Martins. The Y2K-inspired collection features sequin butterfly crop tops...
London Designer Miss Sohee Is Reinventing Couture Fashion For a New Era
London-based fashion designer Sohee Park defines her womenswear brand Miss Sohee as “demi-couture”. After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2020, her graduate collection was featured on the cover of LOVE magazine — and Park has since launched a successful fashion brand in the midst of the pandemic, while reinventing couture for a new generation. Sohee Park graduated in the same CSM class as emerging designers Harris Reed and Yasmina Atta. Her graduate collection “The Girl In Full Bloom” featured voluminous demi-couture gowns with glam ’60s and gilded Hollywood references. The first star to embrace Park’s designs was Miley Cyrus for a performance on The Graham Norton Show in October 2020. But Miss Sohee truly took off in 2021 after being worn by Ar...
Emerging Designer Miss Sohee Is Reinventing Couture Fashion For a New Era
London-based fashion designer Sohee Park defines her womenswear brand Miss Sohee as “demi-couture”. After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2020, her graduate collection was featured on the cover of LOVE magazine — and Park has since launched a successful fashion brand in the midst of the pandemic, while reinventing couture for a new generation. Sohee Park graduated in the same CSM class as emerging designers Harris Reed and Yasmina Atta. Her graduate collection “The Girl In Full Bloom” featured voluminous demi-couture gowns with glam ’60s and gilded Hollywood references. The first star to embrace Park’s designs was Miley Cyrus for a performance on The Graham Norton Show in October 2020. But Miss Sohee truly took off in 2021 after being worn by Ar...
Join Us While We Marvel at Thierry Mugler’s Most Over-the-Top ’90s Fashion Designs
Thierry Mugler is one of the most prolific fashion designers of 1980s and 1990s. For two decades, the French designer helped to shape an era of colourful catwalks with artfully sculpted and larger than life designs. More recently, Thierry Mugler and his eponymous brand have experienced a renaissance since stars like Cardi B and Kim Kardashian are often seen wearing his archival designs — and we couldn’t help but indulge in finding Mugler’s most over-the-top ’90s fashion designs. It was 2019 when Mugler charmed Instagram’s influential set of baddies. Cardi B showed up at the 2019 Grammys in a Mugler Couture oyster gown from 1995 that is inspired by the 1480’s painting The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. The following year, the “WAP” singer wore a shee...
Join Us While We Marvel at Thierry Mugler’s Most Over-the-Top ’90s Fashion Designs
Thierry Mugler is one of the most prolific fashion designers of 1980s and 1990s. For two decades, the French designer helped to shape an era of colourful catwalks with artfully sculpted and larger than life designs. More recently, Thierry Mugler and his eponymous brand have experienced a renaissance since stars like Cardi B and Kim Kardashian are often seen wearing his archival designs — and we couldn’t help but indulge in finding Mugler’s most over-the-top ’90s fashion designs. It was 2019 when Mugler charmed Instagram’s influential set of baddies. Cardi B showed up at the 2019 Grammys in a Mugler Couture oyster gown from 1995 that is inspired by the 1480’s painting The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. The following year, the “WAP” singer wore a shee...
Miley Cyrus’s Blooming Flower Dress Is by Our Favourite New London Designer Miss Sohee
Miley Cyrus performed her latest power ballad “Midnight Sky” for The Graham Norton Show on Saturday, 10 Oct. The single is the lead track for her upcoming seventh album She Is Miley Cyrus, and although we love the message of finding yourself in the freedom of owning your mistakes, we were absolutely fixated on the iridescent dress worn by her cardboard cutout and designed by one of 2020’s most inspiring young creatives — Miss Sohee. Cryus’s cardboard cutout wore the beautiful Peony gown from Miss Sohee‘s graduate collection for Central Saint Martins, titled “The Girl in Full Bloom”. The pink-and-lime-gold Peony dress is described by the designer as a “digitally printed, partly hand-dyed dress made in quarantine” and features a strapless...
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Understanding the strength of small businesses
The number of small businesses keeps growing in the formal and informal sectors of the Nigerian economy, due to the role of small businesses as the live-wire of any economy and the backbone of major developed economies the world over. Though Nigeria rely majorly on oil and revenues derived from it, from context observation the economy is largely supported by small businesses covering almost all spheres of activities within the country, ranging from Nano, kiosk, and Micro businesses most importantly. A visible reference usually includes the vulcanizers, corner shop owners, single retail marketers, repairers, painters, business center operators, restaurants, market women, and men in the various open markets, among others. and the formal operations such as the law firms, accounting firms, con...