Business, Leadership

Billionaire Robert F. Smith Promises to Pay Off Up to $40 Million in Student Loans for 2019 Moorehouse Graduates – Watch his Speech

Billionaire and philanthropist Robert F. Smith, a personality we have profiled here at Ladybrille, recently stunned the world with his promise to pay off the school loans of the 2019 graduating class at Moorehouse College. According to Wikipedia, “Morehouse College is a private, all-male, historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia. The college is one of …

Podcast, Woman of the Month

LBW070: Meet Lucilla Booyzen, Founder of South African Fashion Week and Ladybrille Woman of the Month!

Dubbed the Anna Wintour of South Africa’s fashion industry, Lucilla Booyzen is the founder and director of the prestigious South African Fashion Week (SAFW). In the early 1990s, Booyzen was an already established fashion producer who visited European Fashion Weeks, when she felt it was necessary that South Africa create its own fashion week to …

Fashion, Fashion Weeks

Recap: Arise Fashion Week 2019 Adds Pop Up Shops and Business Seminars to Prestigious Event

Arise Fashion Week, produced by Nigeria’s ThisDay Newspaper, is synonymous with glam and glitz, and the ability to get the global fashion industry to take notice of leading contemporary African designers globally. Its 2019 event was no exception. After a long hiatus and resumption of the prestigious fashion event last year, producers returned to Lagos …