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What The Stars Wore To The 2018 #FemTheFuture Pre-Oscars Brunch

By Chidirim Ndeche
03 March 2018   |   6:00 pm
American singer and actress Janelle Monae and Belvedere Vodka kicked off the “A Beautiful Future” Campaign with a Fem the Future Brunch yesterday at Catch LA in West Hollywood, California. Monae hosted a brunch for her organisation Fem the Future, which was launched in 2016 and empowers female music executives, filmmakers and engineers. Fem the…

American singer and actress Janelle Monae and Belvedere Vodka kicked off the “A Beautiful Future” Campaign with a Fem the Future Brunch yesterday at Catch LA in West Hollywood, California.

Monae hosted a brunch for her organisation Fem the Future, which was launched in 2016 and empowers female music executives, filmmakers and engineers. Fem the Future, as she fondly called it, is “a grassroots movement” and “a tribe full of women and men who want to see women soar, who want to see a light being shined on women storytellers, music producers, engineers, and so on and so forth.”

The event was attended by a number of stars including Lupita Nyong’o, Jidenna, Geena Davis, Grimes, Rosario Dawson, Ava DuVernay, Tessa Thompson, Danai Gurira, Serayah McNeill, Dee Rees, Yvonne Orji, Matt McGorry.

See photos from the event below:

Janelle Monae. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Lupita Nyong’o. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Dania Gurira. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Jay Ellis. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Yvonne Orji. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Tessa Thompson. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Ava DuVernay. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Serayah McNeill. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

BET CEO Debra L. Lee. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Rosario Dawson. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Jeannie Mai. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Jidenna and Janelle Monae. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Tessa Thompson, Lupita Nyong’o, Janelle Monae and Danai Gurira. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Tessa Thompson, Lupita Nyong’o, Janelle Monae and Danai Gurir. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Elaine Welteroth, Actors Yvonne Orji, Janelle Monae and Jay Ellis. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Yvonne Orji, Tessa Thompson, Ava Duvernay, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira and Dee Rees. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Journalist Alicia Quarles and Janelle Monae. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Nana Kwabena Tuffuor, Chuck Lightning, Lord Kelli Andrews, Jidenna, Nate Wonder, Janelle Monae and Mikael Moore. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Lupita Nyong’o, Yvonne Orji and Luvvie Ajayi. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

DJ Kitty Cash. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

Ava DuVernay. Photo credit: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Belvedere Vodka

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