Brangelina to Launch Housewares Line

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed)
May 13th 2006 at 9:04AM

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning to launch their own line of traditional African housewares and other home products later this year. They are reported to be working with local craftsmen in Namibia, where they currently reside, to create the products for their line, which will include textiles and pottery. The collection will be launched at an art fair in Paris in September.

Given that the Brangelina collection will debut in Paris, it seems like it will be sold at a premium price, but since Angelina was among Forbes magazine's picks of the most generous celebrities, the odds are good that the couple will be putting a lot of that money back into the community.

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Josie T. Pena May 16th 2006 2:08PM

It takes time for people to "grow up". Sometimes, on the way, we may make "mistakes". We fall in love and we all fall out of love. Sometimes we do stupid things like wear a "vile of blood" around our necks or whatever it takes to profess our love for someone at the time. ALL PEOPLE DO STUPID THINGS ALONG THE WAY OF LIFE. I DON'T THINK THAT THERE IS ANYONE WHO HASN'T. Eventually we all grow up and realize our calling. Brad and Angelina could always be off in Hollywood making more "big movies" and making more "big money", but instead they chose the "art of giving". Do you really think that it is them who orders all of this publicity? If it were up to them I bet that they would love their privacy. It is all the jerks out there that this is their job to seek and thrive on the lives of others especially the rich and famous hoping that it will make them rich and famous. There are people out there that do all of that for a living is thrive on the lives of others. Do you really think that Brad and Angelina want to market themselves as the next "Martha Stewart" type person with housewares??? That is absolutely asurb. It is the arts and talents of another world that has not been given a chance to market, advertise and be publicly related to the "real world. It is all about marketing, advertising and public relations that make people known and what they do known. It is not about people really wanting to be known for what they do. It is all about other people just doing their job for big money on big people. Look at the big picture here, everybody.

karri May 16th 2006 2:17PM

To all who are opposing Angie & Brad's union.

So they are not married, so what!!!! 8 in 10 marriages end in divorce the first 7 years.
One need not be married to be committed in mind, body and soul examples( Goldie Hawn & kirk Russell/Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins another set of great activists I might add) And so many American all over the world who live great, productive lives and raise well rounded children.
About her adopting. One idiot wrote she bought her children. I don't think many people who adopt buy there kids so they can take care of them. Which cost a whole lot more for the 18 plus years. So stop being silly and educate yourself.
About Angie stealing Brad. A man can not be stolen. He can leave of his own free will. And I really don't see Jennifer crying on Vince's shoulder about who she lost Brad. Plus I think Brad has much more in common with Angie then he did with Fashionista Jennifer. I can't really see her in Africa holding aids children without her Prada Dress.And Wondering when she is going to have a hit Movie. I guess Making a Million + Dollars an episode on Friends was to much to lose then to give her then Husband a baby. So Brad found a women who would forgo money for Family. So Jennifer Blame yourself.

Brad and Angie are Good people, doing good things to change the way the world Views people who need help.
Before you judge, think when was the last time you left your job to bring a little joy in a young aids infected child, who is starving with no clothes or shoes and medicine. And you held them with love and compassion and no judgment.
Yeah you can't. So leave them the hell alone!!!!!!!!

Alicia May 16th 2006 2:26PM

It's really sad how some people think. Who cares if Brad was married when he met Angelina? Married people meet people of the oposite sex all the time, but that doesn't mean that they get divorced and start dating them. Obviously, there were problems with Brad and Jen's marriage to begin with, because if there wasn't they would still be together. And who cares if Brad and Angelina aren't married? What is a marriage but a piece of paper? Isn't the important thing that they are happy together and treat their children well? Also, those of you posting comments about Angelina using her adoptions and helping other countries to get attention, you need to get a life. Do you think she chases reporters around yelling "Take my picture!"? She is just someone trying to do good things and because she is an actress, she ends up in the news. She's not trying to better then anyone else, she is just trying to live her life and do what she feels is right!

sin May 16th 2006 2:30PM

WOW!!!! There must be a lot of angry, resentful, and hateful people out there. Which is really too bad because the world as a whole need more kindness, understanding, forgiveness, generocity and self-less acts to make it liveable. My question for all those people who obviously vehemently have a problem with A.J and Brandpitt's lifestyle is, what have you done to make a difference in the world? It is so easy to criticize others without looking at yourself first.

It is not a crime of humanity to adopt children. In fact, people who adopt are doing the world a favor for opening up thier hearts and homes to children whom parents can't support or carefor. It is such an insult to adopted children when people like Sharon Droder, refer to them as comodity. As in for the marriage issue, I think that if you have confidence enough in your relationship that it is real, you don't need something like a contract or what people call a marriage certificate to VALIDATE it. It should only be viewed as something that ties you together financially. A.J and Brandpitt's business venture will definately benefit other people whether it is altruistic or not and thats WHAT MATTERS!

Kindred May 16th 2006 2:44PM

To: Pro Bono
No one does good just for the sake of doing good. We do it out of guilt, fear, greed or just to show how much better we are then someone else. Even those like yourself who think you do good for the act its self are wrong. Maybe you don?t get the pubicility that Brad and Angie do or Bill Gates and Oprah but really have you given as much money or time as them? At the end of the year could you look at your check book like Bill Gates and say well that 100 mil went to AIDS research?? And no the amount is not the issue giving is what counts. But people give because it makes them feel good plain and simple. This is not a new concept Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) one of the worlds great philosophers said it long ago. People operate on a pleasure, pain principal we do what will hurt us the least and if it benefits others great. We are after all utilitarian more recently
In 1971, Robert Trivers developed and published his theory of reciprocal altruism. This makes much more practical sense to me as a model for human behavior. The premise of reciprocal altrusism is that one only performs a supposedly "altruistic" act when there is a perceived - although potentially delayed - benefit to oneself. Feeling a sense of satisfaction after performing a "selfless" act may not seem like a tangible benefit, but this moral elation and sense of accomplishment carries with it a boost to one's psychological - and over all well-being.

That being said, doing good works is a good thing whatever the motivation. So long as something gets done.

Frank May 16th 2006 2:47PM

"8 in 10 marriages end in divorce the first 7 years."

Where did you get that statistic? That's not even close to being accurate, and even if it was, you say it like you're proud of it. Divorce stats are a reflection of the society that the liberal Hollywoods have helped create,,,,and I wouldn't be touting it as an example of anything. You're using a few lone examples of unmarried Hollywood couples who have actually stayed together. It's hard enough to raise successful children even when you ARE married,,,,real statistics show a child has the best chance in a married home,,,thus the state laws that still require it.

Joesette May 16th 2006 3:06PM

Why don't we help the children in our own country first. Why doesn't BradAngelina help the people devistated by Katrina, and Wilma, or a family who's parents died of AIDS. On the same soil to which they live and breath. I don't mean for us to never help anyone else. We need to start somewhere... Here should be first otherwise go make all that money from Non-Tax Payers who don't go see your bad movies....

Aga May 17th 2006 1:21PM

Even though the money could be used in the US, countries such as those in Africa need it much more. Our poor live in much better conditions than 90% of the people in those countries. It seems to me a decent thing to help in a part of the world whose conditions most people in the US couldn't even imagine.

Also, they are not immoral just because they are not married and are raising children together. They try to protect their children from the public eye as much as possible and it seems that they are loving parents. There are many seemingly "God fearing" families that I have seen in my line of work who appear moral on the outside and are abusers behind closed doors. I will take their kind of morality as a role model rather than the appearance of prescribed morality. Actually, being able to do what they are doing and being able to say that they are happy is a way to show that a formula for being happy does not exist and that each of us has to make our own happiness and speak out and even rebell to reach it.

Facts May 20th 2006 8:19AM

Jamie

Indeed, we are ALL "works-in-progress" (please do not use platitudes, that is, making a statement as if it's your own when in reality it is an OLD behavioral psych 101 comment". Please given "credit-where-credit-is-due" and use QUOTES.

You seem to be familiar with psych lingo, however, I'm not able to ascertain which side you're on, [aside from Brad's & Angelina's).

Let's just offer you the "benefit-of-the-doubt"
and say you are a "therapist-in-training" in "systemic/cybernetic" cognitive/behavioral specialist.

Here's your homework for the next while.

What is & has been Mr.-He's-The-Pitts romantic relationship pattern?

HINT

Engaged, wait until someone else catches his eye, breaks up and crawls into bed with another, then engaged, marries, wait until someone else catches his eye, so on and so forth!

NOT simply when he's dating or engaged, but during A COMMITMENT BEFORE THE EYES OF GOD. For Heaven's sake, can't he just walk away without having someone waiting in the wings? Afraid to be alone? Serial Monogamist? Transparent behavioral pattern. My guess is that he did this prior to his public life. Only his former junior and high school gals know truth.

Go back as far as he's been REALLY in the limelight, since Thelma and Louise. My friends and I predicted his pattern when he broke it off with Juliette Louis to Gwen to Jennifer to Angelina (he dipped his foot in water with a few co-stars but not without having his "STEADY".

Do your homework...you will see the unequivocal pattern.

NO ONE IS JUDGING HERE! THESE ARE FACTS MA'AM. NO ONE HERE IS JUDGING BUT YOU JUDGING THAT WE ARE JUDGING! "Don't judge lest ye be judged". "When you judge me, you don't define me, you simply define YOURSELF as being judgemental!"

His pattern is obvious. We are not saying anything differently from noting someone eating a certain breakfast cereal in the morning, with a splash of soy milk, and a dash of stevia root, for sweetner.

HER pattern is, well, let's just say....They both could use a good "systemic-cybernetic" cog/beh therapist.

If she's sooooooooooo WONDERFUL and LOVING and FORGIVING, as you espouse, how is it that she refuses to FORGIVE her father Jon Voight? Charity & FORGIVENESS begins at home, right? She reportedly won't allow her father to see his grandchildren! He was on an interview and seemed heartbroken. Don't you see what happened right before her "do gooding". Her father was reaching out to the world to try to get his daughter HELP as she was WAY-OUT-THERE! NOW she's on the opposite end of the spectrum, trying to prove her father wrong???? Just a thought based on "patterns".

Doing "good" in one area is offset by the antithesis in several other areas. WHERE IS THE CONSISTENCY?

Here's the gist. Let's hope "HIS/HERstory" doesn't repeat. We only know past and present. Let's hope she makes up with her father, and everyone lives happily ever a

Let's all meet here in 2010 and discuss further.

I will be the first to admit I was remiss & wrong about these two, jointly, and individually, if and only if.

Concur May 20th 2006 8:59AM

OMG!

FACTS,

YOU ARE SO CORRECT AND I CONCUR!

She went from "cutting" to being "so in love with my brother" to "he's a good kisser so I married him [BBT]" to the "daddy antagonism" to let me prove daddy I am the better actor AND PARENT and to public humiliate him by proving him wrong that I'm "not out there". OMG

NOT like the Douglas, Bridges, Sheen/Estevez, Fonda, Hawn/Hudson encouragment/happiness of other well-known families. Hmmm. Facts-are-facts, FACT. giggle

This is all a display of her unresolved "issues" with her father, the competition in acting, parenthood, etc, isn't it? From acting to parenthood, she's now out to prove to her father she will also be a GOOD parent & "do gooder" and NOT OUT THERE! Geesh.

Wow, & AGA, you alluded to "abuse behind closed doors". I commend you on your comments, however, "two wrongs don't make a right".

Good for you for being the "salt-of-the-earth" however, do YOU assist these folks in uncovering the underlying "purpose and pattern" so that the abuse doesn't continue? DO YOU assist those seeming "abusive" caretakers to heal his/her unresolved issues so their respective patterns do not continue to play out in all areas of his/her life? What are YOU doing to help them break the CYCLE and to change? Permanent change. NOT first order change but SECOND ORDER CHANGE? They were once children, too, and YOU must assist them in understanding/healing their childhood "beliefs/patterns" FIRST so that change will be in the best interest of ALL!

There are many schools of psychological thought, but only a few that are gifts to folks seeking permanent understanding and change.

I genuinely hope YOU are the "agent-of-change".
God Bless You if You are!

Again, AGA, two wrongs don't make a right. The "lesser of two evils" is what you "seemingly" espouse in your "comparison".

KNOWN FACTS..."Religious people are NOT necessarily SPiritual and Spiritual people do NOT have to be religious"

I opt for the "spiritual person having a human experience"

"We dance around the circle and suppose, but the secret sits in the centre and knows." [zen proverb]

Pro Bono May 20th 2006 9:56AM

To Kindred-

"DARE TO DO AND BE SILENT" was the topic of discussion.

No one broached or even alluded to the "impetus or feeling".

Ancient wisdom, even current proponents
of this aforementioned, albeit, [recycled] wisdom, from the likes of Chopra, Dyer, Millman, Hay, Williamson, Jampolsky, Ruiz, Gawain, Summer Rain, Moore, Course in Miracles, Ryce, etc., will all impart the following:

"GIVING IS RECEIVING".

No big secret, Kindred, & it is literally stating the obvious! Even when we talk about "forgiveness" it understood that we are not letting someone "off the hook" but, rather, we are FOR GIVING. We are giving to another as well as OUR-self". Anyone who understands holism, or the MIND-BODY-SPIRIT-EMOTIONS connection...anyone who practices sound spiritual, (not religious) beliefs unequivocally understand.

I AM, however, disagreeing with your stance on the "purpose & feeling" of giving.

Are you saying Christ "gave" out of "fear, guilt & greed".

Are you saying Ghandi "gave" out of "fear, guilt & greed".

Are you saying that each and every time you "give" to your friends, family, lover, children, co-workers, or leave a tip after a dining experience, you are doing so out of "fear, guilt, & greed"?

As logic would have it, if the P's & q's are accurate, "IF THEN" logic statements would suggest that you are saying:

Angelina & Brad are "giving" out of "fear, guilt and greed".

In the world of academe, if you were a Ph.D candidate who has written your dissertation, & is now defending your argument, I and my panel would have to ask that you revise more than a few things before being granted such a high academic honor.

However, let's stick to "higer spiritual ground" rather than "higher education".

DARE TO DO and BE SILENT.

Namaste!

BeFuddled May 20th 2006 11:05AM

karri

Who left his/her job?

He recently made Babel, Jesse James, and is currently working on Benjamin Button, Ocean's Thirteen, Dallas Buyer's Club, Chad Schmidt and Atlas Shrugged!

She's pregnant, ready to deliver any second now, LITERALLY!

She's worked on The Good Shepard (to be released at end of year), and is currently working on Beowulf.

NO ONE left his/her job, but I can tell you that I DID for many, many long and arduous moons, to help out with the Hurricane Disaster Relief in 2004. Remember those 4 Hurricanes in Florida, then the onslaught last year, 2005 with Wilma and Katrina?

Not tooting my own horn, but have a heart! I took a leave-absence WITHOUT PAY, to assist right here in our very own country.

Have you been? Have you seen? Have you contributed?

I agree with one poster about Daring To Do and Be Silent, however, when someone makes a baffoonish statement like Karri...I just have to throw my 2 cents in a speak up, say what I and many other volunteers have done.

Irene May 23rd 2006 2:58PM

Both of them are adults. Men and women have been leaving one another since before tie. Its nothing new. As for adoptiving children I am for. Think about what you have and what they would not of had if they continued to live the life given to them.As for the US , why can we be selfish and not share a potion of our good fortunes. You do not have to be rich, or give tanagible items sometimes a letter of love or caring is enough. Thank God we don't live in some of these 3rd world countries that have nothing .

Sherry Jun 5th 2006 2:04AM

I look forward to purchasing African-made housewares.
It's hard to find original, handmade, labor-intensive housewares that aren't mass produced and made of polyurethane or filler material. Angelina is doing a good thing with marketing African made art. Send me a catalog.

Angelina Jun 29th 2006 8:27AM

I just think this pair of evil people are making profit of the situation in Namibia to make more and more money to themselves. This man is just really a bad man that dated another woman while married. And the other, if god is correct , will pay sooner or later when another young girl comes and takes brad pitt away from her. and same for him. this woman wont care about leaving him for someone else that will cover her caprices.