Zainab Kamara
BARBADIAN entrepreneur and world pop star Robyn Rihanna Fenty’s standard Fenty brands will soon be accessible in some unspecified time in the future of nine Caribbean countries, including Trinidad and Tobago.
Rihanna, as she is well-known worldwide, supplied on October 1 that her billion-buck beauty, skincare and heady scent brands Fenty Elegance, Fenty Pores and skin and Fenty Scent will be accessible in some unspecified time in the future of nine Caribbean countries from October 24.
She made the announcement by ability of a transient, 24-second video posted on the legitimate social media platforms for the respective Fenty brands.
“Finally these years, I could well possibly now not be extra livid to issue that Fenty Elegance and Fenty Pores and skin are in the break going to be accessible in some unspecified time in the future of the Caribbean and in my home country, Barbados.”
Shouting out her Caribbean roots, Rihanna said her brands had been impressed by her possess beauty wants.
Within the past, Rihanna has been very vocal about utilizing extracts from a few of the tropical fruits she grew up eating in Barbados in her Fenty merchandise. Her most modern Fruit Quench’rz lip oil originate contains extracts from Barbados cherry and fervour fruit.
“Fenty Elegance and Fenty Pores and skin had been impressed by my possess beauty wants and naturally growing up in the Caribbean. I do know that you could all acquire one thing that works for you.”
The lively shops for every and each island which involves Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Grenada, St Maarten and TT had been moreover supplied on social media.
In 2021, Forbes industry journal confirmed Rihanna’s billionaire bid, attributing the bulk of her fortune to Fenty Elegance.
Vendome is the lively retailer in TT. The retailer has two locations in Gulf Metropolis and Trincity Mall.
Newsday spoke with Vendome’s total manager Raymond Kattoura who said the originate is amazingly appealing information for the Vendome group and their customers.
“It’s reasonably appealing. Since the originate I’ve stumbled on that a quantity of of us attain use Fenty and I didn’t know that quantity of of us use Fenty. We attain detect ahead to offering the expert services and products as well to offering the merchandise that folks will be taking a detect forward to shopping.”
Kattoura remained tight-lipped on how the Vendome-Fenty collaboration took situation, however he did recount the singer wished to present the impress readily accessible to Caribbean customers.
“She is a Caribbean gyal. For the luxuriate in of the Caribbean and her of us, she wished to spread her impress so all americans is always a portion of it.”
Kattoura invited the general public to “reach on down” to their stores for their October 24 Fenty originate and warranted native Fenty fanatics that Vendome would devour their favourite Fenty merchandise in stock on originate day. He moreover published there would be surprises on offer for customers and impressed of us to use Vendome’s social media pages @vendome.tt on Instagram and Vendome TT on Fb for further information.
“We are able to devour provide of the merchandise that they (customers) use, worship and detect ahead to so reach on down.”
The manager of Vendome’s Gulf Metropolis branch Patricia Kallicharan said the Fenty brands are well-recognised in TT and published she has been receiving an above moderate different of calls from customers since information of the originate went viral.
“I am contented because I do know the impress recognition in TT is amazingly high. Because the manager of the Gulf Metropolis branch, I am so livid. It’s a brand new scoot for us. We have already viewed a high in hobby. Prospects are calling me for the total day about this information.”
Kallicharan said customers want right merchandise and having Rihanna co-signal Vendome as the legitimate TT retailer retailing the Fenty line will extra relieve to be sure customers.
“Prospects want the line. They wish the right ingredient. Because they’re seeing the face of Rihanna and we’re now not elegant announcing one thing to them, they know that we are able to devour the lively line.”
Vendome retails skin, beauty and hair-care lines as well to fragrances.
