In the tradition of men in my blood," Bey recites during the "Intuition" video vignette. At the center of the maelstrom is the other woman, the mistress, the side chick. And that woman is addressed in "Sorry," the fourth song on the album, as "Becky with the good hair. She's not dragging Becky through the mud.
In the hours following the Lemonade premiere, fashion designer Rachel Roy posted an interesting update to Instagram. Attached to a picture of herself and a friend was the caption, "Good hair don't care, but we will take good lighting, for selfies. The phrase "Good hair don't care" might as well have been written in fire.
Roy posting that line to the internet and her thousands of followers was like a person jumping into the lion's den, but only if said person was wearing a vest of ribeye steaks and bacon underwear. To the casual observer, Roy and Bey's shared usage of "good hair" might be a coincidence. But there's much more to it than that. Roy is probably best known for being a fashion designer who's made multiple appearances on Project Runway and appearances on Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Unless you're into fashion or reality television, you probably have no idea who she is. Roy's origin story with music's most powerful couple begins with her stint as an intern at Jay Z's clothing line Rocawear after she finished college around According to Teen Vogue , she worked in every department, and eventually worked her way up to become a creative director.
Make no mistake, Roy wasn't in the elevator when everything went down. But her existence may have spurred Solange's attack on Jay. Leaked security video of the fight — which showed Solange attacking Jay Z — went viral online. But there's a secondary story from that same night that never received as much attention: Solange had a run-in with Roy before she got into that fateful elevator.
Meanwhile, Wendy Williams connected the dots and alleged that Roy and Jay may have had a sexual relationship when she was an intern at Rocawear, suggesting that something like a flirty look or a greeting that was a little too comfortable set Solange off at the Met Ball party:. Fast forward to and "Becky with the good hair," and this theory that Roy is Becky begins to make sense.
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Fashion designer Rachel Roy at home in March. Oh yes, she did. Jay J. The basics: Roy, 42, is a fashion designer, stylist and author with a clothing line sold at Macy's. Eventually, she fell in love with Dash. In a September interview with Time, Roy recalled her experience and encouraged aspiring young designers to gain experience by interning at other labels. In , Dash and Jay Z parted ways as business partners. In numerous interviews, Dash subsequently hinted that he and his former close friend had a big personal falling out.
In January , Roy married Dash in Mexico. Some of that could be credited to observing men in my earlier professional years, but really the credit goes to having a very stubborn, very proud immigrant father. Anyone reading this who has been raised by Indian immigrants will relate. My mother is Dutch, but my dad really ran the house. Indian immigrant parents just expect a certain level from their children, and it made no difference that I was his daughter versus his son.
That pride you have from an immigrant, demanding a certain level of excellence at a very young age, is empowering. It came to a point around that the only way I could keep the business afloat was to find some partners and I did. I had always been raised to have a lot of respect for my elders, and he was at that time. If I wanted to expand, I knew this was an opportunity I should probably take.
They asked me to bring in some of my younger friends from the CFDA, which I did, and then they got taken over by another company that was lousy, that all dissipated, and I had to find a new partner.
I could have worked for a larger company and been quite safe, but I took the route of independence that I probably learned from my father. At one point, right before I left New York, there were about 50 employees in my office working on my brand, and 49 of them were women. That was the type of company I wanted to run and give to my daughters one day. And that 50th was gay, by the way [ laughs ].
Shop now. I made a determined decision to leave New York and bring my daughters to California simply because there was more space for them and a better quality of life. I would have had to get quite far outside Manhattan to have provided for them what I am giving them in California. With that comes losses for the business, and yet gains for your children. I started a mood board in the same way I do when I start a collection.
I noticed a recurring theme was homes with water and the ocean. I knew that if I was true to myself, and listened to myself, I would follow that. It was a gut instinct, listening to that inner voice. That is exactly what design is, too. The business is there to supplement life, not business being life. I had experienced years away from the office long before the pandemic happened. It was extremely frustrating at first; things were not getting done the way I believed they should be.
I learned from a Deepak Chopra lecture that no one is good at multitasking. It was mostly women in the audience during this particular talk, and you could hear a hush go over this very type-A crowd the moment he said it. Instead of always having that struggle mentality, where it was always a race to catch up, I felt almost a regalness in the pride of my decision to put my children before monetary value and the ego of success.
Then, everything sort of fell into place. Yes, I had to give up a lot. From that shift, a lot of people started coming into my life with like-minded values. I met Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian man who has saved more than 85, children from trafficking, mostly little boys in slavery working in factories. I traveled to New Delhi, India, and stayed at his center where he rehabilitates the boys he rescues to learn more about how I could help.
I was so moved after learning about how these products are made that I wanted to make a shift. It is the part of fashion no one likes to think about: we like to design and create, but who wants to really think about where these patterns get made? Once my eyes were open to this, I really saw a huge shift in how I wanted to produce. I was told by partners not to speak about it in public. I just wanted awareness. I t seemed silly and fearful and, quite honestly, unevolved to spend time pointing the finger or blaming.
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