Sex, Drugs and R& B: Inside The Weeknd's Dark Twisted Fantasy. So is this swearing or no swearing?" In a darkened soundstage on the outskirts of London, Abel Tesfaye is wondering if he can say "fuck" or not. Tesfaye, better known as breakout pop sensation the Weeknd, is at a rehearsal for Later.. Watch Online Watch I Corrupt All Cops Full Movie Online Film. With Jools Holland, the BBC music show, about to soundcheck his smash hit "The Hills," a four- minute horror- movie booty call featuring more than a dozen f- bombs. For Tesfaye, that's relatively clean, but he knows the pensioners in Twickenham might disagree. So when the verdict comes back "no swearing," he nods and smoothly pivots to a censored version — a small gesture that says a lot about the kind of professional he has become."The Hills" is currently enjoying its fourth straight week at Number One, a feat made even more impressive because it took the place of another Weeknd track, "Can't Feel My Face" — Spotify's official song of the summer, and the only song about cocaine ever to be lip- synced by Tom Cruise on network TV.

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Tesfaye is just the 1. Number Ones, a group that includes Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Taylor Swift. His new album, Beauty Behind the Madness, has sold more than half a million copies in a couple of months, and he's preparing to launch a national arena tour in November. I'm still digesting it, to be honest with you," Tesfaye says of his success. But the screams keep getting louder, dude."Tesfaye comes over to say hi, dressed in black Levi's and a Roots hoodie, his tsunami of hair piled high atop his head. Sorry, I'm sick," he says, as his handshake becomes a fist bump in midair. Since starting this promo tour a week ago, he's been to Las Vegas, Paris, Berlin and now London.

The cold caught up with him yesterday, during a signing for 5. Oxford Circus HMV. Overheard: "I wanted to hug him!" "You didn't hug him?

I kissed him!")Go behind the scenes of the Weeknd's performance on Saturday Night Live in our exclusive mini- documentary below: This scene would not have seemed possible in 2. Weeknd appeared with a trio of cult- favorite mixtapes that established both his sonic template — drug- drenched, indie- rock- sampling, sex- dungeon R& B — and his mysterious, brooding persona. A press- shy Ethiopian kid from Toronto who has given only a handful of interviews, he has cultivated a near- mythical image as a bed- hopping, pill- popping, chart- topping cipher. We live in an era when everything is so excessive, I think it's refreshing for everybody to be like, 'Who the fuck is this guy?'" Tesfaye says. I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything."Spend just five minutes with him, though, and he reveals himself: sweet, soft- spoken, surprisingly earnest. When I tell him he's not what I expected, he nods. When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind — contrary to a lot of my music."When talking about his art and his career, Tesfaye is blessed with a towering self- confidence and has no hesitation about declaring his own greatness.

People tell me I'm changing the culture," he says. I already can't turn on the radio. I think I'm gonna drop one more album, one more powerful body of work, then take a little break — go to Tokyo or Ethiopia or some shit." Hearing him boast about talking shop with Bono, or name- dropping "Naomi Campbell, who's a good friend of mine now," you may be tempted to see a diva in the making; or you may see a 2. After rehearsal, Tesfaye is in the greenroom with his two managers, 3. Amir "Cash" Esmailian and 3.

Tony Sal. Cash is a first- generation Iranian- Canadian sweetheart who occasionally yells things into the phone like, "You may as well bend me over a table, bro!"; Sal is a courtly charmer who grew up in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war and now dates a former Miss USA. Right now, they're trying to figure out how to get from Norway, where Tesfaye will be for promo in a few days, to Texas, where he has a show. Watch Blackbird Download there.

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According to their tour manager, the only commercial flight from Oslo to Austin is at 8 a. Photograph by Mark Seliger"What about noncommercial?" asks Cash. The tour manager says he'll check, but they're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. Cash looks around and grins: "The label's paying for it, right?"I feel so much better today.

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I feel amazing right now."The next afternoon, Tesfaye is in a seventh- floor suite at his Soho hotel, having spent most of the previous 1. There was also a B1.

When a bellman brings in a silver tray with a selection of waters, Tesfaye pours himself a glass. I just started being fancy, to be honest," he says. Like, I just started learning how to pronounce what I'm wearing." He imitates a snooty shopgirl: "'It's not Bal- mane, it's Bal- mahn.' 'Oh, sorry!'"When he first started recording as the Weeknd, Tesfaye was an unlikely star.

I was everything an R& B singer wasn't," he says. I wasn't in shape. I wasn't a pretty boy. I was awkward as fuck. I didn't like the way I looked in pictures — when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'" Instead of his face, his album art and videos featured black- and- white photos of artful nudes — a topless girl in a bathtub, a woman's ass in a party dress. The aesthetic was American Apparel- style hipster catnip, right down to the Helvetica font. Early Weeknd songs were atmospheric and chilly, their thick narcotic haze sliced by his broken- glass falsetto.

The lyrics were an addiction counselor's worst nightmare: pills, pain, shame, serotonin, danger. He and his crew posted three songs on You. Tube and started spamming their friends on Facebook, then watched the play counts slowly climb. I don't know how many it actually was, but it felt like a million," Tesfaye says. Five hundred plays? Holy shit!" Toronto being a small town in some ways, the songs were heard by Drake's manager, Oliver El- Khatib, who posted them to the OVO blog, where they promptly blew up.

Apparently, Drake wasn't even fucking with it at first," Tesfaye says today. Oliver was the one vouching for me."The then- anonymous Tesfaye declined all interviews.

In part, it was because he worried he wasn't well- spoken enough: A high school dropout, he used to do crossword puzzles to improve his vocabulary, and to this day, he often wishes he were more articulate. Me not finishing school — in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated," he says.

I don't want them looking at me like this fucking retard — no disrespect." For months, no one even knew if the Weeknd was a person or a group. That's when Tesfaye realized he "could run with the whole enigmatic thing," he says now. If it backfired, I probably would have been doing interviews. But people were kind of liking me being a fucking weirdo."The three free mixtapes that followed — House of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence (all later repackaged and sold as Trilogy) — made him a darling of indie circles, and Tesfaye isn't shy about praising them. I probably could have toured off Trilogy for the rest of my life," he says.

It definitely changed the culture. No one can do a trilogy again without thanking the Weeknd. A lot of artists started doing things faster and quicker after that: Justin Timberlake dropped two albums in a year, Beyoncé dropped a surprise album." He's equally proud of the music itself: "I'm not gonna say any names, but just listen to the radio. Every song is House of Balloons 2. Drake gave Tesfaye a big boost when he featured the Weeknd on his double- platinum 2.

Take Care. But for Tesfaye, being under the wing of his fellow Torontonian was a mixed blessing: A handful of songs he'd written for House of Balloons ended up on Take Care. As Tesfaye said in a 2. I was hungry.. I was like, 'Dude, take anything.'" Today, he says he has nothing but gratitude for Drake, whom he calls "my closest friend in the industry at that time." Still, he says, "I gave up almost half of my album.

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P. A. (pronounced [ˈdʒordʒo arˈmaːni]) is an Italian fashion house founded by Giorgio Armani which designs, manufactures, distributes and retails haute couture, ready- to- wear, leather goods, shoes, watches, jewelry, accessories, eyewear, cosmetics and home interiors. The brand markets these products under several labels: [2]Giorgio Armani Privé, Giorgio Armani, Armani Collezioni, Emporio Armani (including EA7), AJ Armani Jeans, Armani Junior, AX Armani Exchange. The brand utilizes the association of the Armani name with high- fashion, benefiting from its prestige in the fashion industry. In 2. 01. 6, estimated sales of the company were around $2.

Giorgio Armani is in collaboration with Emaar Properties, a chain of luxury hotels and resorts in several big cities including Milan, Paris, New York, London, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, Dubai.[4][citation needed] The company already operates a range of cafés worldwide, in addition to a bar and nightclub. The former site of the Giorgio Armani boutique in Chicago. Giorgio Armani[edit]Giorgio Armani is a high- end label specializing in men's and women's ready- to- wear, accessories, glasses, cosmetics, and perfumes. It is available only in Giorgio Armani boutiques, specialty clothiers and select high- end department stores.

The logo is a curved "G" completing a curved "A", forming a circle. In 2. 01. 6, the fashion house stopped using animal fur in all of its collections, citing the availability of "valid alternatives at our disposition that render the use of cruel practices unnecessary as regards animals."[5]According to WSJ and other influential reporters, in addition to couture line Armani Privé, Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani are company's ready- to- wear lines that show at Milan fashion week. In addition, selling at lower prices are Armani Collezioni, Armani Exchange and Armani Jeans."[6]Emporio Armani[edit]Emporio Armani is the second brand of Armani family, features ready- to- wear and runway collections.

Emporio Armani focuses on trends and modern traits. Also, Emporio Armani along with Giorgio Armani is the only two ready- to- wear brands that are mainly designed by Giorgio Armani himself, and has a spotlight at Milan Fashion Week every year while Armani Collezioni, Armani Jeans, and Armani Exchange do not.

Emporio Armani usually only sold in freestanding Emporio Armani boutiques and its official website.[7]Apollo Minerva starred in four Emporio Armani underwear campaigns from Spring/Summer 2. Fall/Winter 2. 00. Beckham appeared with his wife, former Spice Girl and fashion designer Victoria, in the campaigns twice in 2. All campaigns were photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.[8]In January 2.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Hollywood movie star Megan Fox became the male and female face and body of Emporio Armani. In 2. 01. 1 Megan Fox was replaced with Rihanna and Ronaldo was replaced by tennis athlete Rafael Nadal.[1. Emporio Armani has teamed up with Reebok to create fashion shoes under the label EA7. Emporio Armani has boutiques in Frankfurt, Amman, Bahrain, Jeddah, Bogotá, Miami, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Madrid, Chicago, Paris, London, Glasgow, Los Angeles, Houston, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Milan, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Dubai, Daka, Lima, Seoul, Singapore, Bangkok, New York, Zürich, Cape Town, Santiago de Chile, Melbourne, Manila, Dominican Republic, São Paulo, Vienna and many other cities around the world. Armani Collezioni[edit]Armani Collezioni at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre. Armani Collezioni (formerly Giorgio Armani Le Collezioni) is the diffusion line of Giorgio Armani that retails at a lower price than Giorgio Armani and the haute couture line, Armani Privé. The logo is usually displayed black written on a white label, but often varies.

Armani" being larger and "Collezioni" underneath it. It provides made- to- measure tailored suits and shirts where every element can be chosen. In addition to being sold in the two freestanding boutiques (which feature the Collezioni line exclusively) in Milan and Paris, Armani Collezioni usually sold in department stores and outlets while Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani only sold in freestanding boutiques.

Last year, a sporty line of this label has appeared named "Armani Collezioni Active" in the same way as the EA7 line from Emporio Armani line. Armani Jeans[edit]Armani Jeans is a bridge- line collection of denim- related clothing, created in 1. Giorgio Armani. Armani Jeans is mainly sold in department stores, although there are many freestanding Armani Jeans stores in the world, in addition to an Armani Jeans Cafe in Milan. Some Armani Jeans items are sold in Emporio Armani Stores. This line does not feature Giorgio Armani's signature simplicity. The colors used are more diverse than those found in his higher end lines.

Brazilian Midfielder Kaka was signed to endorse the jeans.[when?]Armani Exchange[edit]A X Armani Exchange was launched in 1. U. S. It retails fashion and lifestyle products and is known for its occasionally provocative ad campaigns. Inspired by street- chic culture and dance music, it is targeted as the more accessible Armani brand.[citation needed]To accelerate development of the nascent line, Giorgio Armani co- established the joint venture company Presidio Holdings Ltd in 2. Como Holdings, the company owned by the Singaporean tycoon Ong Beng Seng that, since 1. A/X Armani Exchange in the United States, Canada, Central and South America and Asia- Pacific.

Initially, the Italian company held 2. Presidio Holdings, the remaining 7. Como Holdings. Giorgio Armani had nothing to do with the brand itself other than the owners using the name "Armani". In 2. 00. 8, Giorgio Armani acquired an additional 2.

In 2. 01. 4, It has now acquired the remaining 5. Armani Exchange products are available exclusively in 2. Watch Crazy Animal Online Hulu. The first A X store opened in September 1. So. Ho district of Manhattan and is considered the flagship.

Armani Junior[edit]. An Armani Junior boutique in New York City, United States in 2. Giorgio Armani also designs products specifically made for babies, toddlers and teenagers up to sixteen years old.[1.

Therefore, he came up with a new label called Armani Junior with a separate label within the product line entitled Armani Baby.[1. The Armani Junior brand was introduced in 1. The sub- label was often criticized in the public eye because Armani occasionally used real fur for the Armani Junior autumn and winter collections. Many people tend to think that it's unreasonable for a large amount of the public to dress small children in high- end, luxury clothing, which families with a regular or even comfortable income cannot afford.[1. The junior line consists of baby clothing and accessories as well as T- shirts, pullovers, suits, smokings, shoes, hats, shirts, belts, bags, underwear and accessories for children and teenagers.[1.

This Armani line is often viewed as the direct competitor of the Italian luxury brand Versace's Young Versace. Armani Junior has 1. The label is also sold in other stores by the label including Armani/Casa, Armani Jeans or Emporio Armani. In total, 3. 08 independent and franchise Armani stores sell the Armani Junior and Armani Baby products throughout the whole world.[1. In addition, the label is available in selected department stores everywhere in the world, for example Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Breuninger and Peek & Cloppenburg.[1. The label is a multi- million Dollar business, as the sub- label sold products woth of 2.

Euros and earned about 7. Euros and earned about 9. Euros. In 2. 01. 2, the label boosted the sales, earning 1. Euros, selling products worth of 3. Euros. In 2. 01. 3, the label gained sales of about 3. Euros, earning again 1. Euros that year alone.[1.

In May 2. 01. 4, Quvenzhané Wallis was named the face of Armani Junior, which makes her the first major child celebrity to be the face of a luxury brand.[1. Armani/Casa[edit].