“Beyoncé is worth $355 million — see how she spends it on lavish mansions, yachting vacations, and a private jet for Jay-Z

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Let’s Talk About Beyoncé - The New York Times

Beyoncé is worth $355 million — see how she spends it on lavish mansions, yachting vacations, and a private jet for Jay-Z - Business Insider

Posted: 27 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST

Beyoncé is serious goals.

Not only does she have killer looks and a voice to match, she's one-half of a power couple, dominates the music industry, and embodies female empowerment. It also doesn't hurt that she has an estimated net worth of $355 million, according to Forbes.

And after working hard to build that wealth, she knows how to spend it.

Queen Bey, as fans love to call her, is known to indulge in multimillion dollar mansions, luxurious vacations and yachting adventures, and beauty treatments. She's also an excellent gift giver, having gifted husband Jay-Z a private jet and a car, and giving daughter Blue Ivy a doll worth five figures on her birthday.

Beyoncé also spreads her wealth beyond her family, donating it far and wide, including to victims of natural disasters and to education.

Below, see how one of the world's highest-paid celebrities and one of the richest self-made women spends her fortune.

Beyoncé Is Offering Fans Lifetime Of Free Tickets - But There's A Catch - ELLE.com

Posted: 02 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST

Beyoncé has announced that she is offering a lifetime of free tickets to any of her or Jay Z's shows - but the lucky winner will have to go vegan, and live in the US.

The 37-year-old star shared news of the exciting competition on her Instagram page in collaboration with The Greenprint Project, which highlights the positive impact that a vegan lifestyle can have on the environment.

'The facts about plant-based eating are hard to ignore,' the project says. 'The benefits of a single plant-based meal per day can have a profound impact on our health and the environment.'

'Our Greenprint is the positive impact we can have on the world by eating plant-based meals,' the website explains. 'We each have the potential to save our planet with our meal choices.'

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Author, trainer and personal friend to Bey and Jay Z, Marco Borges, published the book The Greenprint: Plant-Based Diet, Best Body, Better World, which includes a foreword from the couple.

The book says that by following its 22 proven effective guidelines, you will shift your mindset, improve your health, lose weight, and impact the planet for the better.

Beyoncé and Jay Z have embraced the vegan lifestyle for health purposes and in a bid to improve the planet, which accelerated after they started a family.

'Having children has changed our lives more than anything else,' she and Jay Z state in the introduction.

'We used to think of health as a diet – some worked for us, some didn't. Once we looked at health as the truth, instead of a diet, it became a mission for us to share that truth and lifestyle with as many people as possible.

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'We all have a responsibility to stand up for our health and the health of the planet. Let's take this stand together. Let's spread the truth. Let's make this mission a movement. Let's become "the Greenprint"'.

Beyonce adds that her Greenprint is 'plant based for breakfast' and 'meatless Mondays'.

The star recently revealed that she was going full vegan in preparation for Coachella, and invited fans to join her.

Let’s Talk About Beyoncé - The New York Times

Posted: 27 Jul 2018 12:00 AM PDT

Hello and happy lunar eclipse. It's a blood moon, which means … well, it depends whom you talk to. But so do most things, don't they?

In any case, it won't upstage the biggest star of the moment. I am talking about Beyoncé, of course, whose "On the Run II" tour with her husband Jay-Z has finally arrived in the United States for its final leg.

I have been following her onstage outfits with some fascination since the whole shebang kicked off in early June. She doesn't really treat fashion like any other celebrity. It serves her, rather than the other way around.

In the same way that Beyoncé takes an omnivorous approach to, say, mythological goddesses, sampling broadly and absorbing it all into her own personal iconography, she ranges widely across the fashion landscape.

Consider the list of designers she has worn on stage thus far, which includes the haute and famous as well as the small and street: Balmain, Givenchy, Roberto Cavalli, Gucci, LaQuan Smith, L.A. Roxx, Michael Schmidt Studios, Mugler, Ottolinger, Peter Dundas, Rami Kadi, Tom Ford, Valentino (straight from the couture runway pretty much right after the show) and Vex Clothing.

That's a lot!

This is the same approach she took in her visual album "Lemonade," when she wore an assortment of names, and it seems be a defining strategy when it comes to her image. It means that no single designer ever really gets to claim her and that she is an ambassador for no brand other than herself.

Smart, right? Anyway, I am interested in seeing what she adds to the list next.

Other things I am interested in seeing: More trailers for "A Star Is Born" with Lady Gaga, which premieres at the Venice Film Festival next month. It looks, against all odds, kind of great. Also the exhibition "Tongue + Chic" at the Phillips auction house in New York, which features a variety of sneakers designed by artist like Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, and Takashi Murakami. If anyone needed proof that sneakers have attained the status of high art, this is it. (It runs until August 31.)

And speaking of sneakers, spend some time with this gem of a piece from Jon Caramanica on his search for Balenciaga kicks; consider the meaning of the end of the Ivanka Trump fashion line; and simply enjoy this insider look at Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop. Have a good weekend.

Your Style Questions, Answered

Every week on Open Thread, Vanessa will answer a reader's fashion-related question, which you can send to her anytime via email or Twitter. Questions are edited and condensed.

Q: I was sorting through a file when I came across a printed copy of clothing "pitfalls" by the image consultant Colette Michelle. Toward the bottom of the page I read this advice: "Don't dress like an old lady." Exactly what do old ladies dress like?

The working world has gone to great achievements to supply career clothes that will communicate success or money or competence or professionalism, but the fashion world has not equally provided clothes for the retired person. Thus, the senior person is left on her/his own to figure out what clothes to buy and wear. This subtle but undiscussed prejudice exists. I demand my rights to adorn myself on an equal footing with an 18-year-old. Elinor, Texas

A: And I support your demand! Despite the fact that all of the 18-year-olds I know (and I have one myself, and hence am exposed to many) seem to adorn themselves only in leggings, plaid shirts, cropped T-shirts and very brief shorts, so I am not exactly convinced that's the equality anyone should be going for.

Anyway, I might recast your question slightly to ask not what old ladies dress like, but rather what maturity looks like. And there we are lucky because this is a good time for those of us who no longer want to show our knees, thanks to the rise of modest fashion, which has engendered many more covered-up, but still cool, styles. And because age itself is being celebrated widely: on Instagram — my colleague Ruth La Ferla recently wrote a great story about this — on Ari Seth Cohen's Advanced Style blog (and book, and film). And that means there are tons of great role models to choose from when looking for ideas for your own wardrobe. Because the truth is there is no single answer.

Iris Apfel is probably the most celebrated nonagenarian, fashion-wise, in part for her refusal to play by any style rules but her own. Personally, I am always filing away snapshots of the designer Carolina Herrera, 79, who always looks pristine, polished and unencumbered. Admittedly, she has an advantage over the rest of us, given that she founded her own fashion house, but still. You can extrapolate. Her uniform is a crisp white button-down shirt with a below-the-knee skirt or pants.

Then there's Carla Sozzani, the owner-founder of 10 Corso Como, the Milanese concept boutique/bookstore/restaurant/hotel where I stay during fashion week. She has in recent years adopted a signature of straight black trousers and a tunic, which she always wears with flat men's brogues, and she looks extraordinarily chic.

They are very different women with very different style, but they do share one thing: an affinity for accessories, especially jewelry (costume or real). Which, after all, has absolutely no age attached.