Drake has pulled off yet one more “wealthy flex.”
On Wednesday, throughout a Los Angeles cease on his “It’s All A Blur” tour at The Discussion board, the “Wealthy Flex” rapper gifted a concertgoer a pink Hermès Birkin bag. A now-viral video on TikTok exhibits Drake on stage scanning the screaming crowd for a possible recipient earlier than handing it off to 1 fortunate lady.
“Drake ain’t low-cost,” the rapper boasted from the stage.
Drake might not be low-cost, however he’s considerate. Within the video, he personally requests the fortunate recipient be escorted to her automobile by safety on the present’s shut to make sure she and her new extraordinarily helpful piece of live performance merch make it house safely. And for good cause: Birkin luggage are sometimes valued from $8,000 to $30,000. A Birkin personally gifted by Drake mid-show at The Discussion board may very well be price far more.
Drake’s love of Birkins is well-documented; in 2017, he instructed The Hollywood Reporter he was amassing a private assortment of the expensive luggage to reward to his future spouse. In 2019, he revealed to Architectural Digest that he homes his investments in a two-story closet adorned with amethyst {hardware}, rock crystal, and seating upholstered in diamond-tufted shearling with polished nickel studs.
No phrase on whether or not the Birkin gifted at his live performance was from Drake’s assortment. However after his current buy of hip-hop’s most useful artifact — Tupac’s personally designed crown ring, valued at $1 million — maybe Drake was merely moved to create one other.
Harlem’s Trend Row is honoring hip-hop’s fiftieth with “Remix”
Harlem’s Trend Row (HFR) is gearing as much as honor the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop at its Sixteenth annual Trend Present and Fashion Awards.
In response to Girls’s Put on Day by day, the style company will host the upcoming awards present on September 5 on the Apollo Theater, with AT&T and Disney as sponsors. This 12 months’s theme, “Remix,” pays homage to hip-hop. The night’s occasions will embrace a cocktail hour, a showcase of fashions from designers Nicole Benefield, Aaron Potts, and Megan Renee, and an awards ceremony.
Vogue World Contributing Editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson will obtain this 12 months’s Editor of the Yr award. Los Angeles-based styling duo Wayman Bannerman and Micah McDonald, identified for his or her pink carpet work as Wayman + Micah, will obtain HFR’s Stylists of the Yr awards; and Stella Jean, an Italian dressmaker of Haitian descent, will take house the award for Designer of the Yr.
HFR founder Brandice Daniel stated, “Hip-hop has made an affect on vogue that can not be ignored. The designers and artists who pioneered the enduring appears to be like that modified vogue in music need to be heralded. Our Sixteenth-anniversary celebration is our means of highlighting their contribution.”
AliExpress x Tiffany Haddish Summer season Pop-Up
Worldwide on-line retailer AliExpress is stepping out of the digital aisles for the primary time to supply customers an in-person expertise within the U.S. In collaboration with actress and comic Tiffany Haddish, AliExpress will host a collection of pop-up outlets throughout Los Angeles that includes a personally-curated assortment by the “Women Journey” star.
“AliExpress is all about delivering pleasure and marvel on a finances, and I’ve acquired a smooth spot for fabulous finds at a terrific worth,” stated Haddish in a press launch. “It’s like a treasure hunt each time you go to the location. I’m so excited to have curated all my favourite fly vogue, devices, and goodies into an unique assortment that may be seen in particular person on the Pop-Up Tour in addition to on-line, all with the identical incredible offers.”
Kicking off at The Grove in Los Angeles, the pop-up store will embrace the superstar assortment, interactive installations, a meet-and-greet with Haddish, and alternatives to win prizes. Catch AliExpress’ “immersive procuring expertise filled with interactive parts and distinctive, on-trend merchandise” on the following places:
August nineteenth – Twentieth (Sat 10 am–10 pm, Solar 11 am–8 pm): The Grove West Hollywood, 189 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles
August twenty second – twenty third (Tue & Wed 10 am–10 pm): Santa Monica Pier, 200 Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica
August twenty fifth – twenty seventh (Fri & Sat 10 am–9 pm, Solar 11 am–7 pm): Glendale Galleria, 100 West Broadway Suite 100, Glendale
Billionaire Boys Membership x Moncler
This week, Pharrell Williams’ luxurious streetwear model Billionaire Boys Membership joined forces with Moncler for a special-edition assortment. Coinciding with Billionaire Boys Membership’s Twentieth anniversary, the gathering creatively merges the Italian luxurious vogue home’s aesthetic with trendy streetwear. The gathering incorporates a vary of light-weight and heavyweight outerwear combining Moncler’s lettering with Billionaire Boys Membership’s signature astronaut and “diamond & greenback” prints. The manufacturers known as on Pusha-T and No Malice from the rap duo Clipse for an icy marketing campaign shoot to showcase the collaboration. Store Billionaire Boys Membership x Moncler on bbcicecream.com.
Tyler Mitchell pictures and fronts Ferragamo‘s fall marketing campaign
Photographer Tyler Mitchell is in entrance of the digital camera for Ferragamo’s fall marketing campaign.
In response to Fashionista, the Luxurious Italian model partnered with Florence-based Uffizi Gallery on a Renaissance-themed shoot photographed by Mitchell, who additionally stars within the marketing campaign. The marketing campaign options iconic Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Italian paintings because the backdrop for ready-to-wear types, sneakers, and luggage from the Fall 2023 line. Just a few of the pictures even embrace scenes of Mitchell at work.
Naomi Campbell to headline Liberatum’s pageant in Brazil
World multimedia firm Liberatum is ready to host an occasion in Brazil celebrating Black changemakers and visionaries, with Naomi Campbell as headliner.
In response to WWD, the three-day multicultural pageant is scheduled to happen from November 3 by means of November 5 and can function a humanitarian live performance, particular programming, vogue installations, movie, structure, and vogue pictures. Roughly 40,000 attendees are anticipated.
Along with Campbell, artist Kehinde Wiley, director Lee Daniels, Debbie Harry, Brazilian actress Taís Araújo, and Brazilian actor and filmmaker Lázaro Ramos are additionally anticipated at Liberatum Brazil. Extra particulars to come back quickly.
Ann Lowe amongst ladies designers to be honored by The Met
One of many vogue trade’s first main Black lady designers and one in all its freshest Black labels might be honored collectively in an upcoming exhibition on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork.
In response to WWD, the Met will honor among the vogue trade’s most integral ladies designers when the upcoming exhibition “Girls Dressing Girls” is unveiled on Dec. 7 on the Costume Institute. A type of designers is Ann Lowe, who designed the marriage robe for Jacqueline Bouvier’s marriage to John F. Kennedy and is now thought to be the primary main Black designer in America. Up to date Black designers Pia Davis and Autumn Randolph of No Sesso will even be featured alongside different feminine pioneers like Gabrielle Chanel.
“Girls Dressing Girls” focuses on ladies in design who outline Twentieth-century vogue and can function 80 items from the museum’s everlasting assortment. Per WWD, the exhibition might be organized into 4 sections — anonymity, visibility, company, and absence/omission. Exhibition guests may have the possibility to study extra concerning the lives, mentorships, and connections between a few of these history-making vogue figures. The exhibition additionally appears to be like carefully at these considerably “nameless” or lesser-known designers and dressmakers, similar to Lowe, who’ve laid the muse for a few of right now’s largest names.
Celeb designer Stevie Edwards dies on the age of 58
Dressmaker Stevie Edwards, who designed for celebrities Tiffany Haddish and Diana Ross, died at age 58 on Sunday in Chicago. In response to WWD, one in all Edwards’ sisters, Aretha, reported that the designer succumbed to most cancers at a Warren Barr rehabilitation middle. Funeral preparations are reportedly nonetheless being made.
Final month, the designer shared through Instagram that he deliberate to take a six- to eight-month break from designing, “relying on the therapeutic course of.”
“I used to be embarrassed to share at first, however I’ll combat this dreadful illness,” he wrote, additional explaining that he was returning to his native Chicago from Los Angeles to hunt remedy. Earlier than his prognosis, Edwards was reportedly on the peak of a 30-year-plus profession in vogue.
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