Get the summer look: Bella Hadid’s sexy denim bikini

Brace yourselves for a summer of Instajealousy — the fashion world has officially gone on vacation. Today let's take a look at model of the moment Bella Hadid who's breaking the internet with an ultra-sexy shot of herself in a blue denim bikini. 20-year-old Bella already shared some snaps of her July vacation with her 5.7 million Instagram followers, and now she's posted photos of some downtime in the sun with her model friends (including Kylie and Kendall Jenner, and Hailey Baldwin).

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Get the summer look: Bella Hadid’s sexy denim bikini

Landing with a bump? Germany’s Rocket falls back to earth

By Emma Thomasson and Chijioke Ohuocha BERLIN/LAGOS (Reuters) – When German e-commerce investor Rocket Internet launched Jumia in 2012 as a would-be African Amazon, it was optimistic that a rapidly expanding middle class would quickly shift from street markets to shopping online. Four years on, falling sales for sites like Jumia and slower growth from Nigeria to Russia and Brazil is casting doubt on Rocket Internet's ambition to become the world's biggest Internet company outside the United States and China. The devaluation of Nigeria's naira last week is a new blow for Jumia, which now operates in more than 20 countries in Africa.

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Landing with a bump? Germany’s Rocket falls back to earth

Luxury Brands Struggle to Attract Internet Generation

Seducing hyper-connected “Millennials” poses an increasing challenge for luxury brands, which find their markets slowing as young, skeptical consumers force them to rethink strategies. Goldman Sachs estimates that 92 million Americans are in the Millennial generation – born between the early 1980s and the 2000s – surpassing the famed cohort of postwar Baby Boomers who are now approaching a geriatric phase. The huge pool of Millennial consumers grew up with the Internet, smartphones and a sharing economy in which owning things like cars is seen as almost unhip.

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Thai fashionista recreates designer gown with bags of prawn crackers

A 28-year-old Thai woman has become an Internet sensation overnight after she posted her own version of a high fashion gown that's made from bags of prawn crackers. Sine Benjaphorn is a plus-size model and owner of a clothing store in Ratchaburi, a province west of Bangkok, Thailand. The gown that she chose to replicate was a peach layered gown that Thai actress, Chompoo Araya wore to a L'Oreal event during the recent Cannes Film Festival. According to Benjaphorn, she was inspired after seeing pictures of Araya and went out to buy bags of prawn crackers — a popular savoury snack — to sew them together. The end result from the colour down to the layering and wavy texture is uncanny.  After posting a side-by-side comparison of her posing in the gown on the streets with Araya's red-carpet picture on May 12, Benjaphorn's post quickly went viral on Facebook, with many netizens praising her for her talent — both in design and comedy. “I’m shocked. I never thought this many people would share my photo. And I’m on every news channel,” Benjaphorn told reporters

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The Italian driving fashion’s mobile revolution

With his high-waisted jeans and sneakers, nobody could have accused Steve Jobs of being a style leader. Posthumously however the Apple founder is becoming an icon of the luxury fashion business as the smartphone technology he pioneered shakes up a sector of the industry initially slow to embrace the Internet. Ask Federico Marchetti, the Italian CEO of Yoox Net-A-Porter (YNAP), the fashion e-tail heavyweight that shifted 1.7 billion euros worth of designer gear and luxury goods last year.

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The Italian driving fashion’s mobile revolution