Kate Hudson, Demi Lovato team up for workout clothes

Singer Demi Lovato and actor Kate Hudson attend the launch of Fabletics Capsule Collection in Los Angeles. (AFP)
Updated 12 May 2017
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Kate Hudson, Demi Lovato team up for workout clothes

BEVERLY HILLS, California: Kate Hudson and Demi Lovato went from working out at the gym together to working on a fashion-line collaboration.
Hudson, who co-founded activewear brand Fabletics in 2013, said she instantly hit it off with the “Confident” singer when the two ran into each other at the gym. They were celebrating together Wednesday at the Demi Lovato for Fabletics Collaboration launch event.
“Because she is fierce. It was perfect,” said Hudson, 38. “Her values and what she stands for is a big part of what our brand is really pushing out there for women. Body positivity, strength, taking control of your life and things. She’s been a very open communicator about things in her own life, which I think is really important for women to feel like they can come out and be really open about things that are going on in their life and finding happiness.”
Lovato, 24, said she has bipolar disorder and has been an advocate for mental health awareness. The pop singer said the fashion line reflects her story.
“It’s come forward through the confidence that you get when you wear the clothing and the cuts are great, the compression in the pants are great. It’s all about feeling comfortable while you’re working out and while you are going about your day,” said Lovato. She trains regularly with mixed martial arts fighters and says she also enjoys workouts “with weights, like strength and conditioning.”
The new limited-edition capsule collection is youthful with leggings in pink and yellow flowered prints, black-and-white shorts and long-sleeved gray shirts. A long, hot-pink tank top is emblazoned with “CONFIDENT” in capital letters at the bottom.


France returns colonial-era ‘talking drum’ to Ivory Coast

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France returns colonial-era ‘talking drum’ to Ivory Coast

  • The drum is to be exhibited permanently in a new museum being built in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan

PARIS: France on Friday handed over a “talking drum” looted by colonial troops from Ivory Coast in 1916 in the latest repatriation of stolen artefacts.
The Djidji Ayokwe drum, more than three meters (10 feet) long and weighing 430 kilos (950 pounds) was used by the Ebrie tribe to transmit messages.
It is one of hundreds of objects France is preparing to send back to Africa, with the efforts set to be accelerated by the passing of a new law to authorize mass repatriations.
“All of Ivory Coast is ready to welcome it,” Ivory Coast Culture Minister Francoise Remarck said at a ceremony in Paris with her French counterpart Rachida Dati.
Remarck added that she was “extremely moved” by the “return of this symbol” that is “finally coming back to its homeland.”
The drum is to be exhibited permanently in a new museum being built in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan.
France has been flooded with restitution demands from former colonies such as Algeria, Mali and Benin.
Its national museums hold tens of thousands of artworks and other prized artefacts that were seized or purchased during the colonial era.
European nations are slowly moving to return a limited number of looted artefacts in a bid to build bridges with their former colonies.