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This Black model re creates fashion brands for diversity and inclusivity in fashion and modeling

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This Black model re creates fashion brands for diversity and inclusivity in fashion and modeling

Deddeh Howard, a L.A.-based  black model was so fed up with seeing fashion campaigns featuring only fair and white colored models,took  to re-created major campaigns from brands like Chanel and Gucci fronted by Gisele Bündchen, Gigi Hadid, Kate Moss, and more with the help of her photographer boyfriend Raffael Raffael Dickreuter. Image courtesy / credits – RAFFAEL DICKREUTER Image courtesy / credits – RAFFAEL DICKREUTER She launched the project titled Black Mirror on her blog with a call for more inclusivity in the fashion industry. “In a time where Black people too…

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Michael Phelps Appears on SI With 23 Medals on Himself

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Michael Phelps Appears on SI With 23 Medals on Himself

Michael Phelps appears on the cover of the latest edition of Sports Illustrated for a 12th time in his career, this time with all 23 of his record Olympic gold medals draped around his neck. ( All Images couresy / credits – Sports Illustrated ) Phelps, again, said the 2016 Rio Games were his final Olympics, although he left a sliver of hope he’d be back for Tokyo in 2020. “If I do get the desire to come back, great,” Phelps told SI. “Right now, I just don’t see it.” His mother, Debbie, and sponsors…

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Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova Undergoes Surgery After Knife Attack

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Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova Undergoes Surgery After Knife Attack

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 26, from the Czech Republic, suffered knife wounds to the tendons in her left hand, after being attacked by a intruder at her home in the eastern Czech town of Prostejov. Though serious,her injuries are not life-threatening. According to Press Association Sport, Kvitova is now undergoing surgery on the injury, after being attacked by an intruder ‘posing as a utilities man’. Writing in a statement on her Facebook page, Kvitova revealed that the injuries she suffered are serious and could threaten her future in tennis,…

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Forbes: Sofia Vergara’s Highest Paid TV Actress with $43 Million Pay & Priyanka Chopra is 8th

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Forbes: Sofia Vergara’s Highest Paid TV Actress with $43 Million Pay & Priyanka Chopra is 8th

The Colombian-American actress Sofia Vergara star of “Modern Family”, topped Forbes magazine’s annual list of best paid television actresses for the fifth year with a earning $43 million.she made more money than any male TV star for Modern Family– was followed on the list by Kaley Cuoco, 30, who plays Penny on The Big Bang Theory and earned $24.5 million in the 12 months to June. Check out the full list below. 1. Sofia Vergara–$43 million 2. Kaley Cuoco–$24.5 million 3. Mindy Kaling–$15 million 4. Ellen Pompeo–$14.5 million (tie) 5. Mariska…

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Molested on the sets,Affair with Amitabh Bachchan,Insulted by Subhash Ghai & Anupam Kher:Rekha bares all in her biography

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Molested on the sets,Affair with Amitabh Bachchan,Insulted by Subhash Ghai & Anupam Kher:Rekha bares all in her biography

A tell-all biography written by Yasser Usman, titled “Rekha The Untold Story“, has been published by Juggernaut. The book reveals lot of explosive revelations have been made about different incidents and episodes of actress Rekha’s’ life. FORCED SMOOCH & MOLESTATION Rekha alleged that she was physically molested during the shoot of her first film Anjana Safar. In what was not informed to Rekha, the director and the film’s lead actor Biswajeet Chatterjee had it planned. Without letting Rekha know, Biswajeet suddenly smooched her in the scene all of a sudden…

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Pope canonises Mother Teresa as Saint at the Vatican

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Pope canonises Mother Teresa as Saint at the Vatican

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Elevating the “saint of the gutters” to one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors, Pope Francis on Sunday praised Mother Teresa for her radical dedication to society’s outcasts and her courage in shaming world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.” An estimated 120,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square for the canonization ceremony, less than half the number who turned out for her 2003 beatification. It was nevertheless the highlight of Francis’ Holy Year of Mercy and quite possibly one of the defining moments…

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“Escaped from Abusive Husband to become Bollywood Stunt Women” narrates Geeta Tandon

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“Escaped from Abusive Husband to become Bollywood Stunt Women” narrates Geeta Tandon

A recent video by the Youtube channel, Blush, For Culture Machine gave Tandon the opportunity to share her story with the world. A successful Bollywood stunt woman since 2009, Tandon has survived child marriage, motherhood before the age of 21, and brutal domestic violence that included rape. Geeta Tandon’s mother had died when she was nine, and her father was left raising four daughters alone in a poor area of the city. They often went hungry.There was no money to pay for schooling, so Tandon would sneak out of the…

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Assange: ‘We have more material related to the Hillary Clinton campaign’

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Assange: ‘We have more material related to the Hillary Clinton campaign’

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is boasting about how his group’s release of hacked Democratic National Committee emails is affecting the US presidential election — and says it has unreleased information about Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “We have more material related to the Hillary Clinton campaign,” Assange told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on “Anderson 360” Friday night. “That is correct to say that.” Assange has been coy about how WikiLeaks came into possession of internal Democratic party cyber information. The FBI and Justice Department are investigating a computer hack of Democratic nominee Clinton’s…

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Indian Designer Arjun Bhasin dresses Sarah Jessica Parker new HBO comedy “Divorce”

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Indian Designer Arjun Bhasin dresses Sarah Jessica Parker new HBO comedy “Divorce”

Arjun Bhasin  is a costume designer from India known for his work on Hindi cinema and international films including Life of Pi — created the looks for the new HBO show DIVORCE, starring Sarah Jessica Parker. “He’s a beautiful designer and costume designer,” Parker said. “Early on there was this desire on my part that I wanted to think about 70s cinema.” (That’s not in the bellbottoms and platform shoes sense, but lighting, color tone and the like. In a way, she said, the costumes make Divorce,set in Westchester County,…

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