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Social Media = Social Saved? yet they say Prevention is better than the Cure if your a Property Developer or a Government please steal this idea xxx

Posted in 10 Downing St, Academic Research, Art, Charity, Design, Elite Traveller, Fashion, Fashion Design, Film, Harlette, Hollywood, Hotels, House of Commons, Laptop, Lifestyle, London, Los Angeles, Magazines, Movies, New York, Norway, Photography, Property Development, Reality TV Show, Sailing, Space Travel, Technology, TV, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United States of America, Virgin, Writing with tags , on October 8, 2019 by harlette

How do you stop this happening in the future

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/homeless-opera-singer-performs-concert-after-becoming-online-sensation/ar-AAIpBSc?ocid=spartanntp

Its an amazing story of how LAPD, changed the life of a homeless opera singer, what resulted was a $61,000 go fund me page a record deal and people now working on a permanent place for the Russian homeless opera singer to live.

But what happens if your not an Opera singer and your just Homeless?

The back story after falling ill, the opera singer became homeless in the state of California. and after LAPD social went viral she was saved.

Yet not everyone has this experience, and the idea of homelessness is on my mind, its everywhere, I have been blessed to travel and I often listen to radio, I notice that more adverts on radio talk about food banks, that children don’t have enough money to by school uniforms or pencils or food for school.

I thought about the challenge and what solutions are available to this, every major capital has the problem of young people unable to live the same dream of owning their own homes as their parents did?

This problem suddenly found inspiration, a new way of thinking, even last week I was looking for sites in Cornwall for this idea that was inspired by musicians, models, artists, technology leaders and corporations.

A creative Pod as a place to live, create and save to own.

Imagine if your making your first album, that in the same place people are making fashion collections with 3d scanners, making music video’s, movies, photo shoots, space based software and everyone around you is totally creating. A bit like university only its where you live. Your on your own your very own creative campus.

You have your own pod, where its like a dorm room with your own bathroom. A bit like the Imperial College London Hotel, during the summer they open their student dorms up as a hotel.  People can swim, stay and have communal areas.

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/visit/summer-accommodation/stay-with-us/our-rooms/

Maybe you still as an emerging creative work during times of the week, but when you get home and have time on the weekends there around you is a creative buzz. So you cant forget to follow your dream.

Its a little Eutopian but hey, you have to start somewhere on a solution.

The problem is every student, artist, dreamer, writer or just lover of life has to earn a living, has to have somewhere to live and most emerging artists find themselves in cycle  trading their precious creative time to pay rent equals dreams on the back burner.

The collection, the record, the software, the photoshoot, the new shoe collection, the first movie script, the first movie short film, the first AI program all waits and waits and sometimes it just never gets created because after working 64 hours to cover eating rent and transportation the desire to create is just not there.

Now add to the mix that usually the most creative in the world are sometime the ones with the most limited access to capital.

How do artists inspire each other and create and own their own living space. In Norway every student graduates to get a loan for studio, then once this paid they graduate to a home for the new family and children.

Ok but the USA and UK and Australia are not Norway I here you say.

So here is an idea for all the property developers with a heart take a property like the one I have found in Newquay £2.75 million

Land for sale in Development Site For 74 Apartments, Newquay, Cornwall TR7

Guide price £2,750,000 (£4,741,379.31/ac)

Read more at https://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/commercial/details/48163984#iq8jBBWIRQm3dr0t.99

Check its by the beach – Cornwall – inspiration and walks for budding creatives

Check its by an airport – Newquay – 60 mins to London

Check its near a Spaceport – Newquay

Check it has trains – and public transport

Check Greta can sail here to do a talk

Check you can sail to New York from here ( I think)

Now here is the place where the finance boffins and property developers need to get their excel spreadsheet and pocket calculators out.

How much would you need to rent each one of these rooms out to a creative and how long would it take for the creative to own it?

So the new way of developing is that the people renting them are on lease to buy, the model is that each person is paying each week to own the room. Once they pay it off they can sell it to another creative wanting to live and work at the creative campus.

The tricky bit is where the Magic happens

  1. How can you get license deals with Record Studio’s to set up recording studio spaces and equipment.
  2. How can you get license deals with Microsoft to supply the Tech Stack for the Developers Dream
  3. How can you get studio set up for green screens and camera’s like Sony
  4. How can you get people that have created to visit for Motivation Monday
  5. How do you get Space Entrepreneurs to visit to inspire the latest space related software ideas that are out of this world

This is just a thought for all those bored Property Developers & Producers looking for a social edge this week and governments that are looking for new ways of thinking about solutions to the housing and young peoples challenge.

Spare a thought today for Hong Kong

One of the things that Hong Kong students said is they live in the most expensive city for property in the world. They don’t have many jobs and they are expected to pay the highest rent in the world for the smallest square meterage in the world.

Now if everyone had access to making their dreams come true where they lived, making movies, music, films, writing etc would they be as stressed and unhappy as they currently are?

Young people have big dreams and how quickly they can get them out to the world makes the difference from being discovered to undiscovered.

Have a great week xxx

 

 

 

7 Cities in 7 Days

Posted in Academic Research, London, Switzerland, Telecommunications, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, Virgin, Wearables with tags , , , , , on November 18, 2016 by harlette

 

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A few weeks ago  I woke up to a rainy Lake Geneva. Amazing experience to have the opportunity to observe a United Nations International Telecommunications Union meeting on one of my favourite topics space.

As well as designing swimwear and lingerie have commenced a PhD and designing a new out of this world project combining fashion & technology that is a little secret squirrel more soon.

Travelling from a university in London to a university in Manchester at the other side of the country and back to London all in the same day was an awfully big adventure.

You can see the seven cities in seven days photo’s on Harlette Swimwear new flickr site https://flic.kr/ps/3gtEvu and you will also spot beaches in Australia like Shelly Beach, a personal favourite and the spectacular Surfers Paradise with the symphony of high rises.

Where, when I touched down in LAX, discovered I left my voice on a virgin train. Sunrise in London Hyde Park with swans & squirrels to finish the day watching  the sunset over Santa Monica beach before meeting with the director of my 4K TV project IT Girl Lingerie to discuss the project, story and new things in Geneva & UK.

Executive Producers that are interested in assisting this project are most welcome to reach out.

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Final touch down in Sydney to start new swimwear collection and this new one is going to be really fun to frolic in and on. Of course what a shock was Leonard Cohen, I heard his new song Leaving the Table as I was in a good old trusted black cab outside Buckingham Palace on the way to the university. With the benefit of hindsight its a little prophetic this song.

I was listening to his new album You Want it Darker the whole week, while glued to Bloomberg for US Election updates & the markets reaction and then suddenly the news that he passed away, on remembrance day at 82 after he saw the new President elect Donald Trump come to power. The night before I saw the Opera House covered in poppies and the video is available at Harlette Swimwear new flickr site https://flic.kr/ps/3gtEvu.

Donald Trump no doubt he is 100% #teambikini & excited that Red is the colour of 2017. Having worked with Miss Universes in our shoots & catwalks Harlette Swimwear are excited at seeing Donald work to make America great again.

Exciting times ahead for the whole world and infinitely more exciting with a bikini or two.

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 Best Things to Do in Harlette

Posted in Lingerie, London, Luxury Lingerie, Luxury Underwear, Mens Underwear, Silk, Uncategorized, Underwear, Virgin with tags , , , , , , , , , , on September 3, 2011 by harlette

Harlette has released never before seen images of Acroyoga poses in luxury lingerie, as part of their 10 Best Things to Do in Harlette campaign. The shoot took place at Virgin Active, and the first image titled RISE ABOVE, was inspired by the recent events in London and the song by Reeve Carney, Rise Above 1 featuring Bono and The Edge.

Harlette have released these images as the start of their AW11 collection, and also made these sets for purchase exclusively available through our facebook page click here to pamper yourself and your partner.

The pieces in RISE ABOVE are also featured in an Lingerie Insight article click here to read the article.

Some of you might be asking Why Acro Yoga and Why Now, this is Harlette’s thoughts on the shoot.

We have been quietly working on some unique shots, and with the recent events with London riots that had an impact on everyone, in the city, including the closure of our stockist Bordello for a couple of days. Harlette has chosen to move around the images to be released as a result of the London Riots as its was clear that timing for release of this image was August 2011.

Harlette’s thoughts on the series of RISE ABOVE images

The need to for women around the world to feel empowered to rise above the problems that we are facing
economically, socially and politically makes this the perfect moment to show how we are grounded and how we offer support throughout our life time to our partners, our lovers, our communities and to our children.

The art of ACRO YOGA as practiced by two amazing specialists that are located at Virgin Active and this practice
gives men and women to chance to find harmony balance and empowerment. This concept of empowerment is embodied throughout the series of images and it is the reason it makes 10 Best Things to do in Harlette.

The shoot features the following Leopard Lovers pieces from the AW11 collection.

Leopard Lovers FEMME Leopardess Lover HOMME Leopard Lover
A French luxury explosion on your skin that looks good and feels good and is flexible to wear Femme featuring Harlette Cami Set with Micro Short Silk from France Les Tissages Perrin, lace from France Solstiss complemented by Harlette Silk Cami Set trademark
velvet bra straps
Silk from France Les Tissages Perrin,for the trim with stretch Black Velvet so it feels amazing to wear.

Many thanks to artisanship of Claudine Lafont & Donald Shakes and @VirginActiveOZ without their passion and pursuit of perfection, this amazing AcroYoga shoot would not have been possible.

Please keep up to date with Harlette on the Virgin Media Pioneers website as well click here to view

Warhol’s JetSet Opens, Virgin Space Anyone, I guess I’ll take mine on ice in 2012

Posted in Andy Warhol, Anniversary, Art, Currency Trading, Elite Traveller, Engagement, Fashion, Fashion Design, Haute Couture, Lace, Lifestyle, lingerie fittings, Louis Vuitton, Luxury Lingerie, Magazines, Norway, Private Jet, Saudi Arabia, Space Travel, Sweden, Twitter, Uncategorized, Virgin with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 23, 2009 by harlette

Warhol’s JetSet Opens, Virgin Space Anyone, I guess I’ll take mine on ice in 2012, I’ll be using Norwegian Kroner and Harlette articles translated into Arabic

crystal_09bb What a week, Sweden’s Ice hotel  2012 is to be marked in your diary’s ladies and gentlemen now,  you will have a choice of travelling to space with Virgin in the winter season’s aurora borealis or the midnight sun of Swedish summer.  http://www.icehotel.com/

 

data1 Andy Warhol’s Dolled-Up, Jet-Set Portraits Go on Show in Paris “Le Grand Monde d’Andy Warhol,” which is supported by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, (my old workplace in Oslo) runs through July 13. For more information and tickets, go to http://www.rmn.fr or call — from France only — +08-9239-0100 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aArCzXoXGRN4&refer=muse&goback=%2Ehom

norwegian-kroner The link today between my old work place LV in Oslo and the next delectible tit bit for this week is that the norwegian kroner is considered to be the worlds safest currency… Now I must remember to check on my norwegian bank account..although the tax that you get charged for holding currency in Norway is slightly off putting, anyway to read more http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1887090,00.html?xid=rss-business#

Well toodle pip, must go rumaging through my norwegian handbags.

naomi1  Oh yes before I forget.. Harlette’s articles for the Lingerie KSA have been translated into Arabic,  read more in our press release

http://www.prlog.org/10203446-harlette-luxury-lingerie-helps-lingerie-ksa-campaign-in-saudi-arabia.html

 

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