Drake Honors Tupac Shakur With Two New Diamond Chains

Update – Music

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Drake has just revealed two new diamond chains honoring the late Tupac Shakur.

Commissioned to long-time jeweler Jason of Beverly Hills, the chains feature the head of Tupac mixed with elements of the customary “Jesus Piece.” A blue bandana version uses white gold and diamonds while the red bandana version sees natural yellow diamonds and yellow gold.

Priced at $300,000 USD per chain, both pieces took a total of five weeks (150 working hours) to make. Check out the video below to see them in detail.

source hypebeast

Beautiful Day

Update – Guy

Did You Know?

‘The capacity to be alone is capacity to love’.

It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existantial truth: Only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest of core of another person– without possessing the other, without becoming dependant no the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it not given by the other.

#Alone #Love

#Outdoors

Update – Fashion

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, If you allow it.

Never be afraid to fall apart because it in an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

Just to remind you :

At my funeral take the bouquet off my coffin and throw it into the crowd to see who is next.

#Fashion. #Travel

Prada Revenue Suffered 40 Percent Decline Due to Coronavirus

Update – Fashion

The luxury house brought in less than a billion euros thus far in 2020.

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 Prada Group has suffered an imposing loss due to store closures, dwindling travel and reduced wholesale, posting a 40 percent net revenue decline, down to €938 million EUR (approximately $1.1 billion USD).

Like its peers, Prada Group — which owns Prada, Miu Miu and Church’s footwear — touts resilience during these tough times, emphasizing diminished retail and buoyant e-commerce, which saw a 32 percent decline and “triple-digit sales growth during and after the lockdowns,” respectively. 

The Group’s statement also highlighted its “disciplined approach” to cost containment and effective supply chain management as key factors for minimizing loss, realized through lease renegotiation and a tightened marketing budget.

With Kering and LVMH reporting underwhelming financial results, it follows that their fellow luxury groups would be hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Indeed.

Prada closed 70 percent of its stores in response to the epidemic, slicing wholesale by a whopping 71 percent, a drastic move that the group is only just now beginning to recover from.

Unsurprisingly, the “entire Asia Pacific region” has boosted Prada’s fortunes as the area’s lockdowns loosen, reportedly enjoying double-digit sales growth in the month of June, the final month of 2020’s first half. Europe and Japan are seeing some bounceback as well.

“I am very proud of the commitment and sense of responsibility demonstrated in these circumstances by all our people,” Patrizio Bertelli, Prada Group CEO, said in a statement. “The first half of 2020 saw a temporary interruption of our growth trajectory which, in a situation of progressive control of the pandemic, we are confident will gradually resume from the second half of 2020, when our store network will again be fully operational.”

source Prada

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