“Follow the Thread,” a movie series about fashion designers and their muses, will air on Turner Classic Motion pictures (TMC) on Saturday, July 2, 2022. Host Alicia Malone praised TCM’s programming section for curating the listing of films and pairing them with designers, manner historians and commentators. “For case in point, American designer B Michael experienced a fantastic collaboration with Cicely Tyson all over her profession. They also talked about the collaboration between Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy and Catherine Deneuve and Yves Saint Laurent. It was entertaining for me as a host to see how their perform paralleled the films that they ended up talking about.” Be sure to tune into “The Stars and Their Designers” with particular visitor B Michael airing July 2 on TMC.
You know style icon B Michael, co-founder, style designer and the creative director of B Michael Worldwide. Presently, he is the chief designer for the brand’s couture and prepared-to-put on designer collections. B Michael obtained acclaim for coming up with the costumes for Whitney Houston’s collaboration with Ruth Carter for Whitney’s last film, “Sparkle.” He also produced costumes for the Joffrey Ballet’s premiere of “Windy Sands” and has obtained various commissions to design for movie and tv. B Michael began his early vocation as a millinery designer for the hit Tv set display “Dynasty.”
Later on he labored as a millinery designer for Louis Feraud of Paris and Oscar de la Renta. B Michael is a member of the Council of the Manner Designers of The us and serves on the board of the Youth The us Grand Prix. In 2016, he was awarded the prestigious Style and design Visionary Award by the Lighthouse Guild.
B Michael’s collections have garnered appreciation from other renowned stars, actresses and fans like socialites and personalities these as long-time expensive buddy and muse Valerie Simpson, Phylicia Rashad, Brandy, Beyonce, Nancy Wilson, Susan Fales-Hill, poet laureate Elizabeth Alexander, and Lena Horne. His collections are marketed in Beijing, Shanghai and Korea. B Michael’s designer all set-to-use selection will be accessible on the brand’s Ecommerce internet site launching 2023.
Just back from Africa, Adolophine Lukabu Sheeley’s luxurious line presents an intercontinental assortment of leather handbags, fine jewelry, coasters with designs motivated by Picasso, and facemasks. Lukabu Sheeley’s products are sold globally and are produced in Africa by Kuba artisans. She shares the earnings with these artisans, offering them further earnings to assist them guidance their people.
LAMG (Les Amis de Mulunda et Georgette or Mates of Mulunda & Georgette), a non-revenue firm, was released through the pandemic. It seeks to support in the development of the Congo (RDC). Currently, Lukabu Sheeley celebrates LAMG’s commitment to the redevelopment and renewal of this African country. Her organization solutions the Congo’s political elite, top rated musicians and business leaders, Petroliere officials, govt administrators of organizations, and associates of Kinshasa’s society elite. She is a native of the Congo, Kinshasa. Her materials appear from Benin, Senegal, Dakar and other African metropolitan areas. The handbag line consists of yoga luggage and handmade tote baggage from Rwanda, with rates starting at $300.
Lukabu Sheeley’s work with LAMG can help offers several Kinshasa orphanages with foodstuff, well being care, and instructional providers. The corporation also operates a farm just exterior the city, gifts ladies with land for cultivation, imparts daily life and vocational techniques to endorse self-sufficiency, and supports elders in the neighborhood with food stuff, drugs, and companionship. Funding for this crucial get the job done will come by means of Lukabu Sheeley, whose product sales let LAMG’s everyday living-providing routines to carry on from working day to day.
Lukabu Sheeley visits with the organization’s a few functioning orphanages, senior assisted dwelling facility, and surveys new farmland destinations closer to Kinshasa. She queries locations to create an intermediate well being facility to perform in between neighborhood clinics and the hospital emergency place.
Alongside the way, Lukabu Sheeley looked for new workplace place, and appreciated exploring the metropolitan areas of Kinshasa, Brazzaville, and Pointe Noire.
