QUEEN B ROCKS NYC
IT has been an exciting week for TV and radio darling Bonang Matheba, who took New York Fashion Week by storm. The Metro FM personality started her week in the Big Apple on Monday by attending the latest shows by fashion designers Leanne Marshall and Byron Lars. On the same day, she also rubbed shoulders with American singer and actress Christina Milian at a cocktail party hosted by Beyonce’s stylist Ty Hunter and editor and founder of popular online style magazine Fashion Bomb Daily Claire Sulmers. Queen B, as Matheba is affectionately known, hit one out of the ballpark on Tuesday when she sat front row at the John Paul Ataker show, sandwiched between It-Girl’ Kelly Osbourne and Australian model Madeline Stuart. For the occasion, she upped her street style in a blush-toned off-the-shoulder ruffled John Paul Ataker jump-suit, styled with an effortlessly chic undone braid, barely-there make-up and Giuseppe Zanotti sandals.
First founded in Istanbul in 1977, luxurious fashion house John Paul Ataker is the go-to designer for every Hollywood cool girl ranging from Empire leading lady Taraji P Henson to Jane the Virgin starlet Gina Rodriguez.
Adding to John Paul Ataker’s high-profiled clientele, during this year’s BET Awards in June, Matheba attended the awards dressed in an olive green jumpsuit by the fashion house.
This trip reignited the fashion spirit in me, not that it was ever dead, but I just love the presentation at New York Fashion Week because it brings out the fun in fashion.... My trip was capped off by a magazine cover shoot that in its own way encompassed all that was New York fashion.” tjiyae@timesmedia.co.za