What I Wore This Week: Amina Lula

Amina Lula is a Toronto based PR and social media manager for online shopping site eLUXE. This Somali-Yemeni beauty started off her career in the fashion business as an intern-cum-employee at Rachel Roy, who Amina describes as “an incredible mentor.” She is also the second half of the Sokoni Worldwide duo (we featured her Sokoni partner-in-crime Saada Ahmed a few weeks ago) On her style, Amina says: “It’s never consistent [...]

 

Estelle and Rachel Roy head to Africa

This summer gone, Vogue UK reported New York fashion designer and entrepreneur Rachel Roy and British singer/MC Estelle were joining forces to create a jewelry line. Now the pair are teaming up with Fair Winds Trading, a social enterprise via which African and Indonesian craftswomen are able to sell their wares in US mainstream retail outlets like Macy’s. Roy announced via her twitter and facebook pages that next month she [...]