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☆ Mongolia’s Paris 2024 team outfits: ‘They just won the Olympics’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The internet has chosen its new favorite national uniform at the forthcoming Paris 2024 Olympics: Mongolia’s. Female athletes’ outfits come with ceremonial earrings and embroidered bags, while male flag-bearers will wear an archery hat, belt and traditional Mongolian boots. The outfits took an average of 20 hours each to craft, according to the Mongolian National Olympic Committee. The outfits took an average of 20 hours each to craft, according to the Mongolian National Olympic Committee. This year, the country is sending more than 30 athletes to the Paris Olympics, which kick off on July 26.

Persons: Ralph Lauren, Michel, Amazonka, Michel Amazonka, ”, Ryan Yip, Bee Jamieson, everything’s, geoff0w_, Michel Choigaalaa, Amazonka Choigaalaa, Ben Sherman Organizations: CNN, Eiffel, Mongolian National Olympic Committee, Beijing, Mongolian National Olympic, Paris Olympics, USA Locations: Ulaanbaatar, Paris, Mongolian, Tokyo, Michel Amazonka Mongolia, Beijing, Great Britain

☆ Rihanna’s makes Chinese street food to promote Fenty Beauty to China’s Gen Z
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Stephy Chung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

She’s a business mogul in every sense: Aside from a prolific music career, she’s launched successful brands including her cosmetics empire Fenty Beauty – worth an estimated $2.8 billion according to Forbes – and her lingerie label Savage X Fenty. Her latest move in China to promote makeup products is something of a masterclass in how to tap into its lucrative – mostly online – Gen Z market. On Tuesday night, the chart-topping singer attended a Fenty Beauty pop-up held at a Shanghai photography museum, “servin’ face” according to brand’s Instagram, and “jianbing” – a popular Chinese breakfast crepe that costs about a dollar. In a screengrab from Instagram, Rihanna makes jianbing in Shanghai, China, during a visit to promote Fenty Beauty. While Fenty Beauty products have been available in the country since 2019, the brand announced this March that it would be expanding its presence via Sephora stores on the mainland.

Persons: CNN —, Rihanna, She’s, she’s, Forbes –, brand’s Instagram, ”, China’s TikTok, “, Guo Pei, jianbing, RihannashowsupinShanghai, Gucci, Dior, Louis Vuitton Organizations: CNN, Vogue China, Academy of China Council, Promotion of International Trade Locations: China, Shanghai, Instagram, Weibo, Shandong, ”, China’s Shandong province, Jianbing, Douyin

☆ Kylie Jenner set to launch ‘accessible’ new clothing line
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Moving beyond cosmetics, skincare and even a Bratz doll line, the youngest Kardashian-Jenner sibling, Kylie Jenner, is expanding her business portfolio with a new clothing line, named Khy, launching November 1. “The whole line is really inspired by my personal wardrobe, and the different moods that I’m in,” Jenner told WSJ. (The biker glam pieces that make up its first collection are in partnership with the Berlin-based fashion brand Namilia.) Courtesy Khy“Kylie’s obviously very aware of what she likes,” Haider Ackermann, the fashion designer behind Jenner’s 2023 Met Gala gown, told WSJ. She’s always been seduced by it.”“Creatively I have such a strong vision of what I want to look like and what I want to do and what I want to wear,” Jenner told WSJ.

Persons: Kardashian, Jenner, Kylie Jenner, it’s, Kendall, ”, Kim, Cass Bird, Khy, ” Jenner, Martin Scorcese, Ed Ruscha, Jerry Lorenzo, Rory Satran, Kylie —, Kris Jenner, Jens, Emma Grede —, Kim Kardashian’s Skims, Kardashian’s, Price, ” Haider Ackermann, Jenner’s, she’s, She’s, “ Organizations: CNN, Givenchy Locations: Paris, Berlin

☆ How 2023 became the year of the lab-grown diamond
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Diana Pearl | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The company isn’t the only one seeing big sales from this category: Lab-grown diamond brand Brilliant Earth saw a 15.7 percent net sales increase in 2022, to $440 million. Dorsey, another exclusively lab-grown jewelry brand, sold over a million stones last year. Broadening the marketMany consumers plough the savings from buying a lab-grown diamond into more jewelry — a bigger engagement ring, for instance. Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File“The lab-grown diamond is not in competition with mined diamonds, it’s a complement to mined diamonds,” said Sayed Haider, COO, merchandising and operations at Diamond Nexus, which added a line of lab-grown diamonds to its offering earlier this year. Lab-grown diamond brand Dorsey sold over a million stones last year.

Persons: CNN CNN —, Pandora, ”, Pamela Anderson, Dorsey, Tiffany, Lionel Bonaventure, haven’t, Paul Zimnisky, Golan, De, Mary Carmen Gasco, Megan Strachan, Valeria Mongelli, Sayed Haider, “, Strachan, Grace Coddington, Pandora Dorsey, influencers, Bella Hadid, Justin, Hailey Bieber, that’s, Zuo Dongchen, Anderson, Precious Lee, De Beers, Bruce Cleaver, Fred, Ashley Barrett It’s, Shah Organizations: The, Fashion, CNN CNN, Diamond District, New, Brands, Cartier, Getty, De Beers, Pandora, Business, Bloomberg, Diamond Nexus, ”, Vogue, Marketing, Publishing, British Fashion Council, Business of Fashion, CNN Locations: New York, Astor, Paris, AFP, Zhengzhou, China

☆ Chris Printup, Founder of Streetwear Brand Born X Raised, Dies at 42
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Eventually, he wound up in a supermax prison, he said, where he decided to start Born X Raised. Shortly after starting the brand, Mr. Printup received a cancer diagnosis. He underwent chemotherapy and lost 100 pounds and his hair, he wrote in a post on the brand’s Instagram in December. He worked all the way through the treatment. you’re going to be fine things will get better,” Mr. Printup said in the post, adding that he had gone into remission.

Persons: Butch Mudbone, Cheryl Printup, Printup, —, “, ”, Mr Organizations: Seneca Nation Locations: Los Angeles, Venice, Seneca, Europe

☆ Mary-Kate Olsen makes rare appearance in colorful outfit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The sartorial journey of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen remains a source of endless public curiosity. These days, the twins’ wardrobe is more subtle — though no less influential. She was spotted in New York this week wearing a technicolor ensemble. Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen at the CFDA Fashion Awards in 2019. “Black is lazy and easy — but mysterious.” There is plenty of mystery surrounding the notoriously private Olsen twins.

Persons: Mary, Kate, Ashley Olsen, Felipe Ramales, ”, Zooey Deschanel, Ashley, Kate Olsen, Dimitrios Kambouris, Yohij Yamamoto, Olsen, Kendall Jenner, Zoe Kravitz, fawning Organizations: CNN, Paris Locations: New York, It’s

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