00:00Welcome back to Essence Live.
00:05Standing here with me is the beautiful Chrisette Michelle.
00:07How are you?
00:08I'm wonderful, thank you.
00:09Thank you so much for our fabulous performance.
00:12How have you been?
00:13I've been wonderful, having a lot of fun and singing a lot.
00:15Yes.
00:16And you have a beautiful voice, so we love to hear it.
00:18Thank you, I appreciate it.
00:19What do you look forward to most here at Essence Festival?
00:21The people.
00:22The real living people outside eating sausages and those chicken wings.
00:27Yesterday we went over to Drago's and had those oyster things.
00:30Just the New Orleans experience and of course the music and performances.
00:34I'm trying to go to every show.
00:35Every single show.
00:36Every single one.
00:37Who are you looking forward to seeing today?
00:38God, I'm looking forward to seeing Bilal.
00:39Of course Usher.
00:40I cannot wait to see Esperanza Spaulding.
00:42I love it.
00:43And Liana La Havas.
00:44Oh my God.
00:45Just a couple.
00:46You'll be running all over the dome.
00:47I got that little Essence app.
00:49But joining us on stage, we have some beautiful models.
00:51Tell me, so you're not just up to music these days, you're up to fashion.
00:54Yeah, we're playing in our clothes.
00:55This line is called Rich Hipster Belle.
00:57Okay.
00:58It's for girls with curves.
00:59As you can see, I have quite a couple of those.
01:00And you're flaying it.
01:01About two or three of them things.
01:02So it goes in at the waist and comes out at the hips.
01:05So as you can see, a lot of the pieces go from day to night.
01:08This is my favorite gold skirt.
01:10And it can go with shoes or Chuck Taylors.
01:12And then the back features a little old zipper.
01:14Yes!
01:15Woo!
01:16Oh!
01:17This is called Leg Room.
01:20It goes from the airplane and the airport out to a nice little little date with your friends
01:24because it's fitted around the hips.
01:26This piece is called the Sunday Belle because you can wear it to Sunday service and then out.
01:31Bring this on down for me.
01:32Uh-oh.
01:33A little party after service.
01:34Okay.
01:35And then this is one of my favorite pieces.
01:37It's super, super comfy.
01:39You can wear it with stilettos and you can wear it with sandals.
01:41Make some noise for these beautiful ladies.
01:43And then last but not least, this is the black version.
01:46This is called the black band-aid.
01:48And I have on the white band-aid.
01:50All of these girls are New Orleans' own models.
01:52Make some noise for New Orleans.
01:54Woo!
01:55So tell me, what made you get involved with the styling and designing?
01:59You know what?
02:00I love to have stuff that I can throw in my suitcase and take it from day to night.
02:03I love when I can wear it on the airplane and at the show.
02:05So I just wanted really easy, flexible pieces, foundation garments that fit over the curves.
02:10So it goes live today.
02:12Actually, it goes live friggin' right now.
02:14Okay.
02:15On the Essence stage.
02:16So is this an exclusive for Essence Live right here?
02:18This is, you guys are the first seeing all of these.
02:20All right.
02:21You're the very, very first.
02:22So make some noise for Essence Fest for allowing Rich Hipster Belle to come and hang out with them.
02:26And please tell everyone where we can find you.
02:28You can go to richhipster.biz.
02:31That's richhipster.biz.
02:33And then click on store and you can go shopping right now.
02:35It goes all the way up to XXL, which is one size or two sizes larger than me and my little old hips.
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