January 2017 | Nómadas Solidarios

Melania Trump: a model designers are refusing to dress

¹Despite the years I spent writing for Hello! magazine, I was ²never one jot interested in what fashion designers or celebrities like Melania Trump had to say. But when I heard that certain US style gurus such as Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford were refusing ‘to dress’ America’s new First Lady, I ³pricked up my ears.

Melania Trump is beautiful if you like that kind of thing – ⁴a cross between 1970s sex symbol Raquel Welch and Barbie. Her look is ⁵‘glamazon’ rather than ⁶effortless. But there is not much more to say about her. A former Slovenian model, she smiles and ⁷pouts and smiles some more, without recognizing the irony of being a ⁸low-skilled immigrant listening to her husband ⁹rant against low-skilled immigrants.

Goodbye Blessing

When I first ¹found out about the children’s home Omwaana Tugende, which ²is run by the Spanish/ Ugandan NGO Adelante Africa, I wasn’t sure what it did and why it was necessary. Had there been a war in the area, I ³wondered. Why were there so many ⁴orphans? It was all very ⁵vague and ⁶far away.

At the time I was working for Hello! magazine and only playing with the idea of ⁷setting up Nómadas Solidarios. Thankfully, that period of my life came to an end and I had the chance to travel to Uganda and not only see Omwaana Tugende for myself but stay there and meet the children I had wondered about.

Will Trump’s antiquated views on climate change usher in a new world power?

The Americans have voted casino and real estate tycoon Donald Trump in as their president and the rest of us have to pay for it, particularly ²when it concerns ³climate change – not to mention ⁴foreign policy.

Or is this the moment when the power the United States has over the rest of the world ⁵goes into decline?

President Obama ⁶led the battle cry at the 2015 climate change ⁷summit in Paris where world leaders agreed to start the ⁸daunting task of building a ⁹fossil-fuel-free economy. “There are hundreds of billions of dollars ready ¹⁰to deploy to countries around the world if they get the signal that ¹¹we mean business this time. Let’s get to work!” he said.

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