{"id":2437,"date":"2011-09-09T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=2437"},"modified":"2011-09-09T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:57:39","slug":"african-jewelry-designers-dressing-the-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/african-jewelry-designers-dressing-the-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"African Jewelry Designers Dressing the Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adire-before-content\" id=\"adire-151472629\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/amp_adiree_mag_top\">\r\n<\/amp-ad><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/09\/ladiosa.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2438 lazyload\" title=\"ladiosa\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/09\/ladiosa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every successful designer has their own unique story and discovered their own path to success, and these young, African jewelry designers are no different.\u00a0 Semhal Zemikael and Natasha Faith who come from Ethiopian and Ugandan decent respectively have a lot of talent and just the right amount of luck in their design careers.\u00a0 The brand is called &#8220;La Diosa&#8221; or &#8220;The Goddess&#8221; in Spanish and draws from a lot of Mexican inspiration since that is where they were both trained to make jewelry.\u00a0 The duo got a real surge of star power when a member of the British monarchy was photographed with President Obama wearing a La Diosa necklace (talk about right place right time).\u00a0 From there their success sky rocketed and has continued to do so for the past two years.\u00a0 The design duo has won numerous awards for their hand-crafted jewels that boast dazzling semi-precious stones.\u00a0 The pair has put out a statement about their line saying, &#8220;La Diosa jewelery evokes empowerment. Jewelery is not simply an  accessory to be admired, but rather an extension of your personality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Haute Fashion Africa<\/p>\n<div class=\"adire-after-content\" id=\"adire-1122800160\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/amp_adiree_mag_bott\">\r\n<\/amp-ad><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every successful designer has their own unique story and discovered their own path to success, and these young, African jewelry designers are no different.\u00a0 Semhal Zemikael and Natasha Faith who come from Ethiopian and Ugandan decent respectively have a lot of talent and just the right amount of luck in their design careers.\u00a0 The brand&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[169,171,170,172],"tags":[751,521,752,753,754,755,756,740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}