Style 4 Improvement’s annual “First Girls Luncheon” is a magnet for highly effective girls, and Tuesday’s occasion on the Pierre Resort was no exception, with Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani being an honoree.
Earlier than the occasion began, the president, who sported a long-sleeve purple gown with a purple floral motif, spoke about how trend generally is a device for diplomacy. She additionally praised the pop star Dua Lipa (who has citizenship in Kosovo, Albania and the U.Okay) for supporting Kosovo. Sandwiched between Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro, the landlocked Balkan nation is house to almost 1.6 million residents. Born to ethnic Albanian mother and father, Osmani was elected as Kosovo’s sixth president in April 2021.
Though it’s troublesome to quantify how the 30-year-old, three-time Grammy winner has raised consciousness about Kosovo, Osmani described Dua Lipa’s contribution “as immense and historic.” She mentioned, “The world now is aware of about Kosovo, due to Dua Lipa. She has been elevating her voice internationally. And in each interview and in each public look, she talks about her house and Kosovo, the place that she grew up [between the ages of 11 and 15] and the way it’s a place that continues to encourage her.”
As well as, the “Future Nostalgia” musician returns to Pristina, Kosovo, every year to headline and arrange her Sunny Hill Competition. “We’re immensely grateful for a way she has managed to advertise Kosovo, the younger individuals of Kosovo and the expertise that our nation embodies.”
Launched in 2018, the annual summer season occasion can have crowds that swell to 100,000 and the multiday gathering has helped to uplift the nation not simply financially but additionally optimistically. Forty-five p.c of the tickets are reportedly bought by worldwide concertgoers. Evidently, Osmani goes along with her household yearly, and her daughters Anda Elisa Sadriu and Dua Tiara Sadriu “beloved it,” she mentioned.
Osmani additionally spoke enthusiastically about Kosovo’s trend designers, and she or he mentioned that she hopes that the worldwide publicity about their skills will improve.
Requested about an on a regular basis sustainable apply that others might undertake, Osmani praised Kosovo’s efforts to cut back its carbon footprint. Her tip is to be conscientious about how we use water so that everybody can have entry to scrub consuming water. “Closely” investing in sustainable vitality is one other precedence for her house nation, which has trusted coal vitality for many years, she mentioned.
Sarcastically, whereas the Kosovo president was attending F4D’s “First Girls Luncheon,” her husband Prindon Sadriu was attending “the opposite first girl’s lunch” that was being hosted by First Woman Melania Trump in honor of the UN’s Basic Meeting. “I’m not the primary girl however I’ve a primary gentleman,” she mentioned.
Requested by a reporter about girls that she admires, Osmani mentioned, “There are numerous girls around the globe who’ve impressed me with the work that I do each single day. However I want to word the ladies of Kosovo as a collective — the ladies who’ve led our peaceable resistance; girls who’ve fought throughout our liberation wrestle; girls who’ve negotiated our peace that we get pleasure from as we speak, and ladies who’re leaving the nation in liberation.”
