Month / September 2021

by Mike Strange

FarFetch Partners Pre-Orders Service Launch With Brands Khaite, Balenciaga and Others.

The Luxury fashion retailer FarFetch is taking on the huge sustainability issues the industry faces, by launching a pre orders service that allows customers to buy from designers before they are on the shelves. The pre order initiative will launch with brands like: Oscar del la Renta, Off-White, Balenciaga and Khaite, in an effort to reduce fashion waste.

The first pre order’s clothes are already made, however the idea is (for the long term) is to offer pre-production so that brands may make only enough clothes that is desired, and by effect reduce waste.

A total of ten brands have joined Faefetch in this sustainability push, and more brands will be on board monthly as for many brands this will be their first time jumping in the pre-order arena.

by Mike Strange

Arts & Entertainment: Qadir “Booder Lo” Lowrie, a young Rapper from Philadelphia Making Waves.

There’s something happening in the Rap and Hip Hop scene in Philly….you know Philadelphia, PA well Chester PA exactly. Now I’m not quite sure where to begin, but it seem to me that this 17 year old “rapper”/hip-hop artist (singer/songwriter) is breaking through to inner city youth (in Chester at least).

BOODER LO

The natives of his hometown (Chester, PA) take a distinct separation from other Philadelphians, with a sort of pride that suggests the upmost confidence along with a truck load of charisma, much in line with Chester itself, (which is the “inner city” squeezed into a 5 square mile radius). Hence the incubator that has spawned a certain type of charismatic youth within, that Booder Lo seems to be the archetype!

Qadir “Booder Lo” Lowrie

After listening to his single digital track “Scramble“, I can feel the deep inner city influences (frustration, deep rooted anger) from living 17 years in Chester PA. The “bad ass” lyrics and instrumental riffs are in line with those that preceeded him in inner-city rap ( LL Cool J, KRS-One), but none the less he is making waves!

Booder is unique in the respect that he grew up in a two parent household of entrepreneurs. His father Tahir Lowrie, is the owner and managing operator of Bicell Nation and Booder is also signed with that company. His mother is Nadiyah Lowrie, a wealth management banker for TD bank. A Highly intelligent youth that’s referred to as “Gansta Gentleman or “intellectual gorilla rap”, and yet can describe how it feels to lose a friend in the streets of Chester!.