Month: January 2018

Cardi B is planning the wedding of the century!

The 25-year-old “Bodak Yellow” rapper opened up to PEOPLE about her upcoming wedding to Migos’ Offset at the Grammys red carpet on Sunday — and she says the love birds plan to pull out all the stops for the big event.

“It’s gonna be extravagant. You know, we’re both rappers,” she says. “We’re both artists, so it has to be a very extravagant wedding.”

Offset popped the question to the Grammy nominee at Power 99’s Powerhouse concert in Philadelphia in October 2017 with a massive eight-carat tear-shaped diamond engagement ring.

Although the star seems elated to wed her rapper beau, she shares that they haven’t been able to put a dent in their wedding planning just yet.

“We are taking our time to plan it, because we really just don’t have the time,” Cardi says. “If we was to have at least one month, three weeks off, it would be easier. But we don’t have it.”

Still, there’s one thing that’s set in stone for the “Bartier Cardi” emcee: “I’m gonna go more Cinderella vibes for my wedding!”

Pablo Ramirez runs a small embroidery business called Stitch Me in West Hollywood. He keeps up an Instagram but doesn’t have a website, unless you count a Yelp page with solid reviews. Like any screenprinting and embroidery shop, Ramirez remains in business primarily by making bulk custom orders for corporations—I Survived the ‘17 Company Cookout! That’s about 50 percent of his business, he tells me. In that regard, Ramirez is about as removed from the world of high-fashion as an apparel business can get. But the other half of his business, the stuff on display in the pictures on Yelp, gives a different impression: there, embroidered on denim jackets, are slithering snakes, tigers bellowing in between branches of roses, and butterflies fluttering near a full English garden. You don’t have to look hard to find the comparison: it looks like a Gucci lookbook. That, Ramirez tells me, is the point.

The trends have been a boon for businesses with stylish customers. “When fashion magazines put something in their magazine with embroidery that picks up business,” says Max Louie, the owner of New York-based embroidery business ABCDE (short for Any Body’s Custom Design Embroidery). Across the board, every embroiderer I spoke to said they felt a bump in business over the past year or so (Michele was appointed as Gucci’s creative director in 2015). Design Like Whoa, a San Francisco-based shop specializing in screenprinting, recently started offering embroidery “due to higher demand and requests,” general manager Sabrina D. Brown tells me. And the embroidery gold rush isn’t just limited to the Guccis of the world, or your local shop down the street recreating Gucci designs. There’s also a wave of extremely hip embroideries like Fort Lonesome—making pieces of “embroidered, wearable art,” its website reads—and Lot, Stock and Barrel, which customizes vintage clothing.