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    {"id":3412,"date":"2011-06-15T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2011-06-15T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:57:55","slug":"meet-amsale-ethiopian-born-top-bridal-designer-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/meet-amsale-ethiopian-born-top-bridal-designer-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Amsale: Ethiopian Born Top Bridal Designer to the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3418\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/2011\/meet-amsale-ethiopian-born-top-bridal-designer-stars\/amsale-aberra2\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3418\" title=\"Amsale-Aberra2\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Amsale-Aberra2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3417\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/2011\/meet-amsale-ethiopian-born-top-bridal-designer-stars\/amsale-aberra1\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3417\" title=\"Amsale Aberra Ethiopian born Top Bridal Designer\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Amsale-Aberra1.jpg\" alt=\"Amsale Aberra Ethiopian born Top Bridal Designer\" width=\"635\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian born couture bridal gown designer Amsale Aberra has become the \u2018it\u2019 designer for some of Hollywood\u2019s most famous stars including Halle Berry, Selma Hyak and Julia Roberts, just to name a few. Hailing from the Ethiopia, Amsale notes that in her native country, she never envisioned being a designer because \u201cin Ethiopia there were no fashion designers. I never knew that designing beautiful clothes was a profession to which one could aspire.&#8221; While she was unable to return to her native country for many years due to the revolution that broke out, Amsale has become a role model for young aspiring Ethiopian designers and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Amsale has broken down barriers and has managed to become the only African bridal designer to have a boutique in one of the most coveted locations for fashion designers in America, Madison Avenue. Amsale\u2019s success has been attributed to her keen eye for creating timeless, sophisticated, clean pieces that speaks to all races and generations. Her \u2018forever modern\u2019 creations continue to be sought after by some of the worlds most famous.<\/p>\n<p>Amsale\u2019s work and success has now become the focus of a reality series on WeTV titled \u201cAmsale.\u201d While many of Amsale\u2019s bridal gowns might be out of reach for many of us \u2018ordinary folk,\u2019 since prices for her pieces range from $4000.00 to $75000.00, her series will enable young inspiring designers to get an in-depth view of how work ethic and all learn about what it takes to thrive and maintain success in the world of fashion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"635\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1X_0NCHJxWA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3416\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/2011\/meet-amsale-ethiopian-born-top-bridal-designer-stars\/amsale-aberra4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3416\" title=\"Amsale-Aberra4\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Amsale-Aberra4.jpg\" alt=\"Amsale Aberra Ethiopian born Top Bridal Designer\" width=\"635\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3414\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/2011\/meet-amsale-ethiopian-born-top-bridal-designer-stars\/amsale-aberra3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3414\" title=\"Amsale Aberra Ethiopian born Top Bridal Designer\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Amsale-Aberra3.jpg\" alt=\"Amsale Aberra Ethiopian born Top Bridal Designer\" width=\"635\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian born couture bridal gown designer Amsale Aberra has become the \u2018it\u2019 designer for some of Hollywood\u2019s most famous stars including Halle Berry, Selma Hyak<br><a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/meet-amsale-ethiopian-born-top-bridal-designer-stars\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":3418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4042,4045,4047,4046,2914,3543,4044,4043],"class_list":["post-3412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-style-trends-in-africa","tag-amsale-aberra","tag-bridal-gowns","tag-designers","tag-ethiopia","tag-fashion","tag-halle-berry","tag-julia-roberts","tag-selma-hyak"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Amsale-Aberra2.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}