First Lady Melania Trump Reportedly Miserable In Her Marriage, Is She Dropping Hints With New Photos?

27.12.17 / No Comments

First Lady Melania Trump Reportedly Miserable In Her Marriage, Is She Dropping Hints With New Photos?

Source: Vanity Fair

Donald Trump’s Christmas celebrations with First Lady Melania Trump weren’t so festive this year. Christmas is usually a time when presidents can relax and enjoy some family time, but Donald’s holiday photo with Melania looked anything but fun. Are the rumors that Melania is miserable in her marriage true?

According to Life & Style, Melania shared a photo on Christmas of her and Donald making a few phone calls. With a colorful Christmas tree as a backdrop, the couple had their backs turned to each other in the pic, which naturally sparked speculation that they weren’t even happy on Christmas. Despite the sad tone of the photo, Melania tried to assure everyone that Christmas was a blast at the Trump house this year.

“@POTUS and I had fun helping children track #Santa tonight,” she wrote alongside the pic. “Wishing everyone a wonderful #ChristmasEve.”

The photo naturally drew a lot of mixed reactions from fans online. Some people pointed out that the president and his wife looked absolutely miserable in the pic while others took some time to examine their body language.

Overall, many people didn’t think the couple had a fun time over the holidays. While it’s hard to tell if Melania was really feeling depressed in the photo, this isn’t the first time her marriage has come under fire this year. In fact, one author believes that Melania is a much happier person whenever Donald hits the road.

Newsweek reports that author Kate Andersen Brower, who wrote the book, First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies, claims that Melania is more comfortable whenever Donald is not around. Brower’s book highlights how Melania has frequently appeared uneasy in public with Donald, including on their recent trip across Southeast Asia.

When the pair visited Japan, for instance, Melania looked more like herself when she left Donald’s side and spent some time at a school. In fact, the First Lady looked happy when she interacted with the kids, in contrast to her typical somber demeanor whenever Donald is in the room.

There are also rumors that Melania does not enjoy fulfilling her duties as First Lady. Melania did not move in with Donald at White House the beginning of the year. Instead, she spent close to five months in New York watching her son Barron as he finished his semester at school.

During that time, Melania was not performing her role as First Lady, which fueled rumors that she isn’t comfortable being in the spotlight. Since then, Melania has stepped into her new role in the White House and has done a great job.

According to Newsweek, recent polling suggests that Melania is way more popular in the public’s eye than her husband. In a new Gallup Poll, Melania garnered around 54 percent in the favorable rating while her husband is sitting at a lowly 44 percent.

She hasn’t, however, shook the rumors that her marriage is slowly falling apart around her. Despite the mounting evidence, Melania Trump and The President continue to dodge questions about their marriage.

Getting A Scoop Of The Latest Xmas African Fashion Looks For Africa’s Summer/Harmattan 17 Seasons

22.12.17 / No Comments

Getting A Scoop Of The Latest Xmas African Fashion Looks For Africa’s Summer/Harmattan 17 Seasons

We brought you some beautiful print looks for the winter for our followers in the west, but we wouldn’t do justice if we did not showcase some amazing looks for the hot xmas holidays approaching us here in West Africa.

For here are some looks that can inspire your tailors creative juices for the festive seasons. Make the most of it and feel free to let us know your favorite look.

How African Print Swimwear Brands Lost Their Serge/Thunder To Chinese Duplicates

21.12.17 / No Comments

How African Print Swimwear Brands Lost Their Serge/Thunder To Chinese Duplicates

There are various ways this article could have been written, harsh or with a very understanding approah, but due to direct experience had with a few of the African print swimwear brands and their arrogance experienced (which is fairly common with a good number of designers in our industry that have touched a bit of success) I decided to go as it is.

Some where along the lines of 2015, we took it upon ourselves to promote as much print swimwear images we could find from runway shows in Africa. This was inline with our season magazine at the time ‘Body Beautiful’. The print swimwear resonated with our 1 million followers on facebook and from there on print swimwear began to go viral by images. I mean, African fashion was viral and beautiful black women will always go viral to.

Later in 2016, it seems a lot more African print brands had emerged and however there was very little nationwide support, or in some cases even though some had their markets, there was a wide range of the public that didn’t know their brand names. So we created the article ‘See The Sexiest #AfricanFashion Swimwear Going VIRAL! Where To Buy Them And The 11 Labels Behind Them’. This also further inspired more top swimwear articles and the African swimwear brands started getting highly recognized.

Later in the year, when it seems like things were booming for their brands, we tried to engage with them to see how possible it was to retail their designs on our online boutique based on the demand we were receiving from our FashionGHANA audience. Unfortunately the response was very negative and in some cases arrogant.

It seemed like things were going so well most would not even reply to any such messages. After all, why should a third party make money of their creativity. You know the saying “You weren’t with me from the start so don’t need to be with me now”. Most only wanted to retail their clothes on their own online platform and extract all possible proceeds from it as much as possible. “Sorry Mr Online Boutique, but if someone wants this beautiful creation I made, you will not benefit, tell them to come to me, and if you don’t who cares, I’ve got my clients” A common and rampant mentality and attitude that sores across a large part of our African fashion world.

Their brand names were growing and their designs were getting far as far as social media (facebook and instagram) was concerned. However, something happened in 2017….and it was the Chinese! Yes the all mighty China, they dip their hands in everything, and little do we know African prints swimwear was one of them. What was even shocking about their move is they literally copied the styles of some of these brands and duplicated them in mass amounts.

The question is how did the Chinese manage to outsell the original brands? Simple, they approached almost every online boutique they could find even the ones that literally had poorly designed websites. We know because we were also receiving mails from random Chinese manufacturers to retails their African print swimwear. ‘Funny Right?’ So if you were ever anywhere, or a client of any online boutique, or a receiver of their forward mail, or just googling for these swimwear looks, guess which source you will engage with first? CHINA! or at least an outlet selling theirs.

The arrogance played and the methods rejected by a lot of the African swimwear brand owners which could have been inspired by greed, was the same tactic used by the Chinese to overtake their business with THEIR designs. Most people don’t know the African swimwear bikinis they are wearing are made in China, what is even worst, they don’t even know they are designs own by other African designers duplicated without permission by companies in China.

With the exception of demands African swimwear brands create for themselves on their social media pages, the battle is a lost cause. The dire to be the sole beneficiary to reap all proceeds of their work worked against them, yes they are making some money here and there, but nothing like the Chinese are milking of their designs. The two essential lessons to be learnt is 1/ Patent your designs, yes take the time to do it, you wouldn’t loose a lifetime of business with a 30 day delay. 2/ Stop being arrogant! Learn to work with others even if it reduces your profit per item. The more items sold via alternative channels will increase your profit over all. It doesn’t mean if 50 items are sold a day over 5 outlets, then if you cut those outlets out all 50 consumers will purchase off you, you have no idea their means to reach out to their own clients.

I will promise you today, none of the known African swimwear brands have approached alternative online boutiques, none of these swimwear brands have approached real boutiques, and even if they have, they haven’t acknowledged these outlets on their website or social media, and I bet you, majority of them have rejected online boutique collaborations, but the Chinese won’t.

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Chic And Flattering Braided Hairstyles For The Modern And Fashionable Bride

If there’s one trend that seems to be sweeping the wedding nation, it’s definitely the bridal braid. Although wedding updos have been the top hairstyle picks among brides of all ages worldwide. This phenomenon is easy to explain: updos are not only practical, but they do complete a delicate bridal look better than any other hairstyle type. There are many hairdos which can be chosen ranging from a simple one to a more intricate one. But for the bride who wants to switch things up, the braids and faux locks are great choices which can be considered. Check these box braids/faux out to derive your inspiration from.

 

Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Are Having Therapy Amidst Her Issues With Her Mom & Justin’s Reconnecting With His Ex, Hailey Baldwin

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Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Are Having Therapy Amidst Her Issues With Her Mom & Justin’s Reconnecting With His Ex, Hailey Baldwin

Source: bet.com

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are reportedly having couples’ therapy following a fight over Hailey Baldwin. Justin has been trying for a long time to reconcile with all the people that he’s upset as part of his renewed Christian faith.

Justin also reached out to his ex-girlfriend Hailey to make amends with her and to apologize. It seems that when he told Selena, she was not pleased at all to hear such a thing, according to TMZ.

Sel and Justin agreed to give Christian couples’ therapy a chance and they have been attending sessions for more than a week now.

These two managed to rekindle their relationship over a month ago. It was just a few weeks after she split from The Weeknd. They are planning to celebrate New Year’s Eve together as well.

Justin reached out to Sel when she had the emergency kidney transplant over this summer after her own organ started to fail due to her constant battle with Lupus. Her illness made him realize just how much he loved her.

Justin is aware of the fact that her family does not approve of their relationship and he’s been doing everything in his power to change that.

He is determined to prove her family that now he’s grown as a man, and he would never hurt Selena again.

‘Justin is aware Selena’s family is not thrilled they are hanging out. They think he caused Selena a lot of grief. Justin hopes that he can prove to them that he has changed. He has changed a lot in the past few months,’ an insider stated about the whole situation.

Nigerian Singer Photoshops Himself With Naked Kim Kardashian And Breaks The Net

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Nigerian Singer Photoshops Himself With Naked Kim Kardashian And Breaks The Net

Although only known amongst afrobeat lovers abroad, he is a superstar in Nigeria, and these funky pictures just pushed his name a bit further.

His name is Adekunle Gold from music label YBNL. This weekend, the ‘Orente’ singer shocked his fans as he returned with amazing new Photoshop edits of himself with American reality stars, Kim Kardashian, Amber Rose and John Legend’s wife, Chrissy Teigen.

Many couldn’t care about Kim K’s semi nude pics as she gets naked in public almost every other week, however, some internet worshippers have not let go of the concept of Adekunle taking a shower with Kim K, and it’s gone viral. See that and other images below.