Ladybrille®Nigeria Style Star is a feature we hope becomes a regular one. For us, fashion is intertwined in all aspects of the creative arts and our Style Star feature is all about showing the fashion nexus. We highlight Nigerian celebrity designers, actors, artists and other personalities, who from our research,[...]
Ramona Russell Founder Uptown Liz, Ladybrille Magazine Woman of the Month!
Fall has arrived in California and simultaneously “Think pink!” & “Save the ta-tas!” echoes nationally through the air! Many have campaigned their part, but let’s meet a true champion of the cause that has fully devoted her life to raising awareness for breast cancer. Introducing October 2009′s Ladybrille Magazine Woman[...]
Ibe Ananaba, Fashion Illustrator and Artist, LadybrilleNigeria Personality of the Month!
Fashion sketching, how common is it to see this in the West? Very common. Indeed before most fashion designers sew their designs, they typically put pencil to paper with sketches of the brilliant and at times crazy ideas going on in their heads. The fashion sketches then serve as a road map for their[...]
The Gospel According to King James, LeBron James that is.
LeBron Raymone James was born on December 30, 1984 in Akron, Ohio to Gloria James, a 16 year-old single-mom seduced and abandoned by Anthony McClleland, an ex-con with no interest in parenting. Gloria did the best she could to raise LeBron on her own but that still meant moving frequently,[...]
TINU, Ladybrille Woman of the Month, Talks Wild Things and her Shoeholic Addiction
If you thought Naomi Campbell’s SeptemberHarper’s Bazaar “Wild Things” editorial feature was about as “wild” as it gets, then you obviously have never heard about Tinuola (Tinu) Arowolo aka “Jane of all Trades.” Tinu whose sophomore album “Addicted” debuts this October has over seven personalities all rolled in one. She[...]
Joan Okorodudu, President & Founder Isis Models, Ladybrille®Nigeria Personality of the Month!
Since its launch, ISIS Models has become a leading force in Nigeria and Africa’s modeling industry. Joan Okorodudu, the brain behind the rising agency has a portfolio that reads like no other. She is a fashion designer, entrepreneur, ex-beauty queen, cosmetologist, former athlete and psychiatrist. This September Okorodudu, along with[...]
Omarosa, “The Life After” Interview
Ladybrille Magazine’s Kam Willaims does a true Tete-a-Tete with the Top Reality-TV Villain of All Time! Omaroseonee Manigault-Stallworth was born on February 15, 1974 in Youngstown, Ohio where she attended Rayen High School before earning her Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism at Central State University. She later moved to Washington,[...]
One on One with Cathy Hughes, TV’s Media Mogul
Catherine Elizabeth Woods Hughes was born in Omaha, Nebraska where she attended Creighton University and the University of Nebraska. But before graduating, she began working at KOWH, a local black radio station where she handled assorted jobs en route to becoming well-known in the industry.
Vanessa Hudgens, Va-Va-Vanessa! The “Bandslam” Interview
Born December 14, 1988 in Salinas, California to a father of Irish and Native American extraction and a mother who is Filipino, Chinese and Latina, Vanessa Anne Hudgens grew up living all along the West Coast from Oregon to Southern California. She began her career in the world of musical[...]
AFI’s Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe, Ladybrille Magazine Woman of the Month
New York Fashion Week is literally right around the corner! As the fashion industry prepares for a spectacular week, this September, of fabulous shows, paparazzi, fashionistas, beautiful models, great parties and of course the business of fashion, an equally fabulous show prepares to kick off in South Africa, Arise Capetown Fashion[...]
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[...]
“CNN Presents: Black in America 2′s” Soledad O’Brien Interview
CNN July 22nd and today July 23rd has been airing Black in America 2 a continuation of its series on the topic. The timing is impeccable in light of the whole fuss on President Barack Obama’s statements on the alleged racial profiling incident of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and[...]
Omatu Gottschlich, Ladybrille Woman of the Month
Omatu Gottschlich is the creative visionaire and designer behind the Austrian brand FULANI, a brand inspired by the Fulani people of Africa known for their beauty. Omatu half Austrian and Nigerian studied fashion at the elite fashion école Hetzendorf in Vienna, Austria. Unlike many who study one thing, her talents[...]
Jada Pinkett-Smith: The HawthoRNe Interview
Maryland Native Jada Pinkett Smith studied dance and acting at the Baltimore School for the Arts and the North Carolina School of the Arts before getting her big break when she landed a role on the long-running NBC-series, A Different World. The multi-talented actress, producer, director and philanthropist continually challenges[...]