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Naomi Watanabe now a model for Beyoncé’s Ivy Park collection

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By Katie Pask, SoraNews24

Back in the days when Japanese celebrity Naomi Watanabe was just starting to break out into the international scene, she earned the nickname “Japanese Beyoncé," due to her iconic impersonations of the American superstar.

But while her roots in the entertainment industry came from being a comedienne, these days Watanabe is more well-known as a model and fashion icon. As well as her own fashion brand for plus-size women PUNYUS, she’s also worked with huge international fashion and beauty labels like Kate Spade and SK-II.

With her latest project, it seems Watanabe has come full circle, as her current modeling campaign is for none other than Ivy Park, the athletic leisure clothing line owned by none other than Beyoncé herself.

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The collection is called Ivy Heart and includes a wide selection of dresses, jumpsuits, accessories, footwear and so on. The collection also comes in an inclusive range of sizes, going from XXXS to XXXXL.

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The theme of the collection is self-love, with red being the primary color featured. The concept of the collection is “bringing people together from all different backgrounds” through the color red. While in Western cultures, red is the color of love and sensuality, in Eastern cultures it tends to represent good fortune and happiness.

Naomi stars in a promotional video alongside Beyoncé, as well as international stars like Australian singer Troye Sivan, American TV host and model Tyson Beckford and Chinese supermodel Shu Pei Qin to name a few.

Naomi’s inclusion in the campaign was met with overwhelmingly positive praise from Japanese fans, many of whom were overjoyed that Watanabe finally got to ‘work with her hero’ —

“I’m so glad your dreams came true! I hope many more of your dreams come true in the future.”

“Congratulations!!”

“Naomi-chan, you look so beautiful!”

— and overseas fans were equally excited.

“Naomi looks sooo good!”

“This is exactly the right choice.”

“Love this dress and love the model too!!!”

“I have no idea who this lady is, but she is GIVINNNNGGGGGGG.”

The collection went on sale to the general public on Feb 10, so fashion fans should snap up their favorite threads before they sell out.

We’re excited to see what’s next for Naomi Watanabe, who just seems to keep going from strength to strength. She once said her goal was to play the lead role in an American comedy movie by the time she was 40, so now that she’s officially modeled for Beyoncé, perhaps that’s next on her bucket list.

Source: Adidas x Ivy Park

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Good for you”, Naomi on getting what you worked for. Yet, the hardest part of getting through any SoraNews24 ‘news’ piece is the inclusion of only the sycophantic twitter in these stories. Naomi’s a big girl now and has learned to handle the criticisms.

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Her international presence is limited, and after appearing to move to the US last year, it now looks like she is back in Japan.

This has all the traits of a paid PR story.
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Yeah someone saw an advertisement and wrote a story about it.

but hey good for her, she has worked hard to make this dream come true.

-6 ( +1 / -7 )

Not a fan, neither a hater. just curious about what the average, non-japanese audience would think if they see her performance on stage, or watch the video above. My first reaction would be "is this a parody?". Besides, how can she dance, train and move like that but never lose any weight? Intentional obesity?

2 ( +5 / -3 )

I don't hate her, but she is not doing the healthcare system any favours and nobody should strive to be this big.

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I go with the “intentional obesity” poster above. To stand out she needed to gain more and more weight to be recognized and get “famous”.

lots of guys wearing dresses, only one Matsuko Deluxe, right?

when you want to be famous you have to have something you are known for.

-6 ( +3 / -9 )

So now that her dreams have come true I seriously hope she becomes a weight loss model next.

ahe can’t maintain all that body weight much longer without severe health risk.

-6 ( +3 / -9 )

Anorexic models are unhealthy so are obese ones...

2 ( +6 / -4 )

blacklabel:

So now that her dreams have come true I seriously hope she becomes a weight loss model next.

ahe can’t maintain all that body weight much longer without severe health risk.

There's one problem with that path to stardom. Sagging skin. And lots of it. And it adds years to the face when the weight if off.

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She is so beautiful..

Famous and makes more money than the haters..

Let the haters bark..

-3 ( +2 / -5 )

Obesity is not something that should be celebrated. It is a result of a an eating disorder. Nor is the opposite extreme of bone-skinniness.

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It's a good thing we have all these men commenting on womens' weight and appearance! How else would Naomi know how she should look, if she didn't have men telling her? It's not like she has agency!

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It's a good thing we have all these men commenting on womens' weight and appearance! How else would Naomi know how she should look, if she didn't have men telling her?

Women would tell her of course. Turns out women also are gross in this way.

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