Cat Lady Lupita Nyong'o for Harper's Bazaar UK November 2024 by Alexi Lubomirski
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Cat Lady Lupita Nyong'o Covers Marie Claire Australia August 2024 by Robin Harper
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Lupita Nyong’o scores another cover story, this month in Marie Claire Australia [IG] August 2024 issue. Fashion director Naomi Smith styles the costar of ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ in Dior, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Sportmax, Stella McCartney and more. Photographer Robin Harper [IG] captures the actor in ‘Behind the Curtain with Lupita’. / Hair by Vernon Francois; makeup by Nick Barose
Alley Pascoe conducts the interview, and ‘darn’, we don’t learn in the digital version what Lupita is talking about when she says: “I was in my underwear thinking, ‘This is how I’m going to die.’ And I just started laughing uncontrollably.”’
Read MoreLupita Nyong'o 'Cat Lady' Covers Glamour Global June 2024 by Adrienne Raquel
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Beloved actor Lupita Nyong’o covers Glamour magazine June 2024, serving four powerhouse covers that project strength, confidence and high-voltage modernity across Britain, Germany, Mexico and the US.
The fashion message styled by Rachel Wang presents a sleek, bodycon fashion statement in pure red and leopard prints lensed by Adrienne Raquel [IG].
Superstar Lupita Nyong’o had such a severe fear of cats, that she begged director Michael Sarnoski to employ a different animal for her role in the new horror film ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’.
For Lupita, the film production coincided with a deeply sad time in her life, self-described as a ‘season of heartbreak’ over the end of her public relationship with Selema Masekela.
A voice in a devastated Nyong’o said, 'Get a cat.”
Read MoreCatching Up with Lupita Nyong'o No 1 : Chanel, Selema Masekela, Meeting Alek Wek
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As part of Anne of Carversville’s ongoing years-long renewal of our deep, pre 2020 archives, this ‘Catching Up With . . . ‘ series will take people we love and issues we care about into the ‘now’ world.
August 28: A Key Day in Lupita’s Life
Take note of the two lovebirds sitting in the salon of Coco Chanel’s apartment, in a series of images from the actor’s IG. Dear Lupita is in a deep-love relationship with Selema Masekela, born on my birthday August 28.
If the name sounds familiar, Selema is the American-born son of Hugh Masekela, often described as "the father of South African jazz".
It’s also the day of Lupita’s ‘Black Panther’ co-star Chadwick Boseman’s passing: August 28, 2020.
The story of how Lupita and Selema first met is priceless. That alone is worth the read.
Read MoreBotswana and De Beers Renew Long-Term, Progressive Diamond Mining Partnership
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In an effort to strengthen their longstanding relationship, the government of Botswana, the world’s second largest diamond producer, and De Beers, the world's leading diamond company, renewed their diamond mining partnership for an expected 10-year duration.
Final details are being worked out, but Botswana’s biggest complaints about the old agreement are resolved.
Under the old agreement, Botswana received 25 percent of the rough stones extracted, while De Beers took the remaining 75 percent.
Moving to Equal Diamond Sharing
Immediately, Botswana will receive a 30 percent share, with an escalating increase to 50 percent within a decade. De Beers and Botswana officials have both confirmed this change.
Read MoreLupita Nyong'o Talks 'Life in Fast Forward' with British Vogue February 2020 by Steven Meisel
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Lupita Nyong'o Talks 'Life in Fast Forward' with British Vogue February 2020 by Steven Meisel
AOC follows up with Lupita’s entire fashion story and interview, lensed by Steven Meisel with styling by Edward Enninful.
For her next challenge Nyong’o will produce, and star in, an adaptation of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel ‘Americanah’. “I had never seen the African contemporary experience explored, celebrated and analysed in such a way,” she says of the impact the story had on her. “The observations she makes as a non-American black person about America are things that I had never articulated but had felt. I was just madly in love.” The project belongs to HBO MAX.
Note that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is very tight with Dior Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri and not for one quick season. Their relationship dates back to September 2016 when — for her debut collection with Dior — the creative director asked Adichie for her help. The now famous t-shirt reading ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ was a direct reference to the author’s TEDx talk on the future of feminism.
