Voir’s Female Empowerment Cover star, RAYE, proves that loving what you do and hard work really does pay off as her career leaps from strength to strength. She’s back after the success of her hit ‘Decline’ and a BRIT Award nomination for ‘Best Single’ with Jax Jones, with her brand new single ‘Cigarette’ featuring Mabel and Stefflon Don.

A collaboration for RAYE with Mabel and Stefflon Don shows a big step forward in her career and pushes her further towards what she told us was her ultimate goal of going “number one in every single country”.

Listen here:

https://www.vevo.com/watch/raye/cigarette-(visualiser)/GBUV71800154

https://Raye.lnk.to/CigarettePR

RAYE’s ‘Decline’, ‘Finders Keepers’ by Mabel and Stefflon Don’s ‘Hurtin’ Me’ are all UK Top 15 singles and ‘Cigarette’ is part of a broader project that will be released in the near future. RAYE’S collection is culturally relevant, informed by working closely with artists as she continues pushing to become the “biggest and best” that she can be whilst solidifying her position in UK music.

RAYE’s music demonstrates a genuine love for what she does and the success of her UK Silver certified single ‘Decline’ – which is still on the Capital playlist and remained on the Radio 1 A List for 8 weeks – is a clear example of this. For most of 2017 she performed at major festivals including Glastonbury, Latitude and V Festival and with nearly 75 million streams of her music, it’s no surprise that the likes of John Legend, Charli XCX, Nas, Little Mix, Snakehips, Julia Michaels, Blood Pop, Ellie Goulding, Diplo and Naughty Boy have all worked alongside RAYE as a songwriter to create new music.

RAYE is clearly taking the advice that she shared with Voir, seeking out “opportunities” and working hard to become the best, most successful artist that she can be, proving why she was the perfect choice to be the cover girl for our Female Empowerment Issue.

Click here to read our full exclusive interview with RAYE

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Original’s by Steven Sheldon

At the age of 29 at London Fashion week the pair released their first ever collection in Autumn 2014. Furthermore, since the debut of House of SheldonHall the duo has been receiving Worldwide devotion of stylists, fashionistas and editors with their captivating and remarkable attitude to design. In 2014 Hand & Lock London, an embroidery atelier to the Royal Family and other remarkable designers such as Louis Vuitton awarded him with winning a prestigious design competition.

Since then the House of SheldonHall has received some amazing recognition of their impressive apparels by the likes of Tatler, Vogue and Hello. As well as being published together with prized labels such as Moschino, House of Malakai, Vivienne Westwood and Christian Lacroix.

I recently got the opportunity to ask Emma and Steven a number of questions about

their design process, and what’s coming for House of SheldonHall.

Sachin: Who is your favourite designer?

Steven: I don’t think I have one, there’s so many

Emma: We love a bit of Dior though

Sachin: Do you have a muse that you have in mind when you design?

Steven: I think my muse is whoever I end up drawing, she just appears. I always start with a head, ears first, I like funny ears. Mouth next, big lips, and eyes last. Very very tall. Never the same. Then she kind of guides me to what I should draw. If we’re ever looking for models, we try and get ones that look the closest to my sketches.

Emma: Inspiration is all around, it’s not just one particular person that makes my juices flow. It can be an era, a colour, art, animals? We both love the 1950’s. So we get a lot direction through researching past techniques and styles. We listen to a lot music; we never work in silence.

Sachin: Do you have a favourite piece? And why?

Steven: I don’t really. I think we both have our preferences, but in general they’re all our children.

Emma: I like the big opera Coat we did last season, and the green sequin, RIP, it got lost, or stolen. We’ve never got to the bottom of it. I think mostly because they’re 90% hand sewn.

Sachin: Who would you love to see wearing your pieces?

Steven: Personally, I would die to see Erin O’Conner in something. I love her look, her face, her features really speak to me.

Emma: We’ve already had a few chances for big names to wear our stuff, and got our hearts broken. So now I think that it’s best we don’t have a particular person in mind. Maybe just go with who is hot at the time. But we do hope we can get Daphne Guinness to wear something one day.

Steven: We would love the chance to work with Tim Walker, he always has the most interesting models.

Sachin: Tell us about your next collection? What’s coming up at the House of SheldonHall ?

Steven: Well, we obviously can’t say too much. As you know a designer’s new work is their best kept secret! It’s scheduled to be completed in mid-January. It’s our biggest collection to date. Massive!

Emma: Steven keeps adding more pieces!

Steven: Very Rich and full of colour. We’ve really concentrated on Textiles this season, our own applications of embroidery and print which makes the pieces so much more unique.

Emma: It will be the best we’ve done so far, it will defiantly make and impact, I know I’m going to need another house when it’s done.

Steven: There’s also a bit of a cute metaphor behind it all. Bit of a self-told story.

Emma: the next collection will blow your F***ing socks off!

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Yesterday was a massive day for team Voir. After weeks of endless preparation the big day came down on Trinity Buoy Wharf in the heart on London. The location for this cover shoot was at Lightship95 Ltd and even though the ship was at Bay, the torrential rain caused it to be a slightly bumpy ride.

The 19 year old singer/songwriter RAYE was the star of the photoshoot. Styled and directed by the team Voir, RAYE is going to be the face of the Female Empowerment issue.

The Autumn issue number 20 will be out in September. This cover editorial will be showcasing Raye in powered clothes by some very exciting brands such as Versace, Just Cavalli and House of SheldonHall.

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