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Article: INTIMATE NOTES: QUEEN FOR A DAY...FEMMY NIGHT...APRIL IN PARIS.(Award cermonies for fashion industry)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- March 6, 2006
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QUEEN FOR A DAY: "This is a good day," said Queen Latifah at the 2005 Curvation Project Confidence Awards luncheon. "Nobody's here because they are in it for something. They're here because they want to build confidence among women."
The event, held at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Manhattan, was sponsored by the Curvation brand of VF Intimates, a unit of VF Corp. Five women were selected from several hundred candidates around the country to be nominated for the first Confidence Awards. The women were chosen for the "empowerment and confidence" they have instilled in women's lives through charity work and by creating self-help and business opportunities for ...