NICKI MINAJ 

 
 

 
 

She may be diminutive, but Nicki Minaj packs a lot of talent into her 5-foot
2-inch frame. Born in the Caribbean, she moved to New York as a
five-year-old and has overcome a difficult childhood to become one of the
most successful rap artists of this or any other generation. Minaj has also
branched out into television and film, in demand for her colorful bubblegum
persona and image. She’s active on social media and in fashion and has
launched several fragrances. Her label-mate ​Lil Wayne​ calls her “an icon”
who has “reached far beyond anything I would have imagined. Nicki will go
down as one of the best.

The rapper and singer Nicki Minaj was born Onika Tanya Maraj on December
8, 1982, in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago, and moved with her family to
Queens, New York, when she was five years old. Minaj's father was a severe
drug addict with a long history of violence. At one point, he set fire to the
family's home in a failed attempt to kill Minaj's mother. Those early struggles,
Minaj has said, helped fuel her drive to rise above the life her parents knew.
"I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind," she
told Details magazine, "because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she
couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'"

AUSTRALIAN CLOTHES

 
 
Australia  has  no  official  designated  ​national  dress​,  but  iconic 
local  styles  include  ​bushwear  and  ​surfwear​.  The  country's 
best-known  fashion  event is ​Australian Fashion Week​, a twice 
yearly  industry  gathering  showcasing  seasonal  collections 
from  Australian  and  Asia  Pacific  Designers.    Top  Australian 
models  include  ​Elle  Macpherson​,  ​Miranda  Kerr  and  ​Jennifer 
Hawkins​ (​Miss Universe 2004​). 
Major  clothing  brands  associated  with  bushwear  are  the 
broad  brimmed  ​Akubra  hats,  ​Driza-Bone  coats  and  ​R.M. 
Williams  bushmen's  outfitters  (featuring  in  particular: 
moleskin  trousers,  ​riding  boots  and  ​merino  woolwear). 
Blundstone  Footwear  and  ​Country  Road  are  also  linked  to 
this  tradition.  Made  from  the  leaves  of  ​Livistona  australis​,  the 
cabbage  tree  hat  was  the  first  uniquely  Australian  headwear, 
dating  back  to  the  early  1800s,  and  was  the  hat  of  choice  for 
colonial-born  Australians.  Traditionally  worn  by  ​jackaroos 
and  ​swagmen  in  the  ​blow-fly  infested Australian outback, the 
cork  hat  is  a  type  of  headgear  strongly  associated  with 
Australia,  and  comprises  ​cork  strung  from  the  brim,  to  ward 
off insects.