RiRi lingerie apparel for all
An email titled “The Buzz Heard ’Round the World,” promoting the molten-hot, new Savage x Fenty intimate apparel collection from superstar entertainer Rihanna, aptly summed up last week’s garment line launch, which reverberated from the Villain event space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to women all over the planet — in a special way.
With the Rihanna quote, “We want to make people look good and feel good,” the Savage x Fenty website confirms that the Barbados-born performer has created an intimate fashion line to celebrate “all shades and shapes . . . something new and fresh that everyone can relate to and feel confident in.”
The debut bash had mainstream industry standards — such as fashion bigwigs and svelte, willowy models — but the quality lingerie line operates on the standard that sexy is large, small, short and tall. Shoppers are welcomed to the website by photos of models, of all sizes, sporting a wide array of bras, undies, sleepwear and lingerie — from basic gear to extra provocative attire.
Visit www.savagex.com for information. And customers can enroll in a special Xtra Savage program to get VIP treatment, such as early access to new and members-only products, and free shipping.
Tome’s topical topics
The New Press publishers book “A Mouth Is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance,” and topics such as white supremacy, brutality, and oppression, will highlight discussion by author Natalie Hopkinson on May 22 in Manhattan.
Hopkinson, a HuffPost columnist and former Washington Post cultural critic, whose parents hail from Guyana, will talk with noted editor Grace Ali in the session at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, 120 E 125th St., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.To RSVP, visit bit.ly/booktalk2018.
S.O.B.s hosts Morgan Heritage
Morgan Heritage, the famous Grammy Award-winning family band, is taking the stage at S.O.B.s, 204 Varick St., Manhattan, next Saturday at 9 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. for food and drinks. Visit www.sobs.com for tickets and information.
New Haiti tunes ‘Rise Up’
“Ayibobo,” the latest album from Haitian-American musician Paul Beaubrun, out last week, and the video for the song “Rise Up” is satisfying the appetites of music fans.
Beaubrun produced and wrote the seductive tunes on the 10-track album.
For more on Beaubrun, visit www.paulbeaubrun.com. See the “Rise Up” video at bit.ly/Beaubrun-riseup.
Honoring B’klyn biz
Caribbean-Americans Julian Pierre (St. Lucia) and Danielle Katz (Trinidad and Tobago) are among the honorees for the Brooklyn Entrepreneur Awards — the Brooklyn-based CAMBA organization’s first annual tribute to local businesses and borough entrepreneurship, coming to BRIC, 657 Fulton St., on May 31 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Examples of vibrant entrepreneurship, Pierre founded and runs the JTees Printing services firm, and Katz is the owner/operator of the family-focused Brooklyn Doodles arts services company.
To register for the event, visit http://bit.ly/BrooklynEntrepreneurship2018.