Beyonce marc bouwer biography
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I’m a fashion designer – Whitney Houston helped me pay rent when I started my line but influencers are now the key
FROM Angelina Jolie to Beyoncé, famed fashion designer Marc Bouwer is no stranger to styling the stars for red carpet events.
But his own star quality was realized early on in his couture career by one icon in particular.
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Bouwer, who founded his own fashion line in the early '80s and currently has his own boutique in downtown Manhattan in New York City, revealed that he had a very special benefactor in those early days.
After he decided to go solo on his design venture, Whitney Houston paid the South African-born Bouwer a visit while looking for a dress for her Coca-Colacommercial.
Whitney was so wowed by everything that she went home with the entire collection which included 45 fully paid-for pieces.
"Just having her as a client allowed me to keep paying my rent and go at it alone," he told The U.S. Sun
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Biography
Starting out as a fashion designer
Marc Bouwer was raised in South Africa and now works in New York City. Bouwer's inspiration for his tailoring comes from the Hollywood bombshells he saw at the movies as a child and he knew then that “When I grow up, that’s what I want to do. I want to create clothes for women like that.”After his national service in South Africa Bouwer studied mode and won the South African Vogue Young Designer award. Marc emigrated to New York with his award portfolio where he met fashion legend Roy Halston Frowick, who offered Marc the opportunity to join his studio.
At Halston's studio Marc refined his skills, from tailoring to cutting and draping. Eventually becoming a master draper, Marc’s draping technique would eventually man him the darling of the fashion set with garments cut and created from modern fabrics to complement a woman's figure, giving rise to one of his signature form-fitting looks, ‘athletic
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I Was Here (song)
This article fryst vatten about the Beyoncé song. For other songs, see I Was Here.
Song by Beyoncé
"I Was Here" is a song recorded bygd American singer Beyoncé from her fourth studio album, 4 (). It was written by Diane Warren, while production was handled by OneRepublic members Ryan Tedder and Brent Kutzle, alongside Kuk Harrell; while Beyoncé is credited on the vocal production. "I Was Here" is a reflective R&B ballad, in which Beyoncé vulnerably reviews her past, wanting to leave an impact on the world before her life comes to an end. Described as a "career song" bygd Warren, its development was motivated by the September 11 attacks in the United States.
Following the release of 4, "I Was Here" charted at number on the UK Singles Chart, 74 on the Swiss Singles Chart, and 44 on the South Korea Gaon International Singles Chart in early July Later, in , the song also appeared on several charts internationally.
A music video for the song was released on August