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FASHION TO LIVE FOR 

So So Spring 4 

Business After Work 10 

Fashion Spotlight 22 

At the Heart of the Arts 25 

Casual Cool 26 

Double Life of an Entrepreneur 58 

A Love for the Grind 95 

ENTREPRENEURS TO WATCH 

LeGrande Green 16 

Eduardo Verastegui 17 

Royal Jets 18 

Donald J. Loftus 19 

Rida Khan 20 

BEAUTY + FITNESS 

Maik Weidenbach 49 

Simple Hair 50 

Fifty Shades of Glamour 53 

Zaaina Skincare 56 

A Moment in Time 64 

RAINEMAKER 

Diane Guerrero 63 

BUSINESS + TECHNOLOGY 

Clarence "KD" McNair 30 

Mike Fernandez 32 

FashInvest 33 

Kickstart Innovation 36 

Wearable Technology 38 

Tech Toys 40 

TRAVEL | EAT. STAY. CHILL 

South by Southwest 68 

Cannes Film Festival 70 

Tribeca Film Festival 72 

Epic Experience with Kimpton Hotels 74 

Game of Thrones: Croatia 81 

ENTERTAINMENT 

Blessing Offor 43 

Seamus Dever 44 

Annie Wersching 45 

Fresh Faces 46 

CULTURE 

Maria Canals-Barrera 77 

Chloe Bellande 80 

Peter Max 84 

Ritva Westenius 86 

Pico Jewelery 88 

NY Fashion Week 90 

Vancouver Fashion Week 92 

Paris Hilton 94 

JennyLyn Gleave 98

FASHION TO LIVE FOR 

So So Spring 

Photographer – Carlton Agius 

Makeup – Justin Brincat 

Modal – Tiffany Pisani 

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EDITOR’S NOTE 

WELCOME TO RAINE MAGAZINE 

Nova Lorraine & David Freschman 

This is a very special spring. It marks our 5th year since 

releasing our very first print issue as a “test” issue. That was 

Vol 5 and our first double cover. Also, not too long after 

that, I met an amazing human being who became a mentor, 

business advisor and wonderful friend. His name is David 

Freschman. Sadly, Mr. Freschman is no longer with us as he 

recently passed away from an aggressive form of cancer but 

his words of wisdom, giving spirit and desire to help others 

will live on! 

This is a special note dedicated to him. Dear David, 

I am sorry I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye but please 

know that your endless support and love for seeing others 

succeed did not go unnoticed. Your kind words and tireless 

mission to find great entrepreneurs and open doors of 

opportunity for them will carry on through all of those who 

you have helped and inspired. You always challenged me to 

do better and be more and I appreciate you for that. Thank 

you again for being such an inspiration and friend! You are 

greatly missed. Rest in Peace. 

INSPIRE CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURS [I.C.E] 

“INTERNATIONAL” ISSUE 

THE ART EDITION 

FLYING HIGH WITH FLY LONDON 

MEET RAINEMAKER 

ROMERO BRITTO 

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Truly, 

T H E W O R L D ’ S M O S T F A S H I O N A B L E B U S I N E S S M A G A Z I N E 

Nova Lorraine, MA 

Founder and Editor 

CORRECTION FROM VOLUME 22 

Section: Entrepreneurs to Watch, Story: Forging A Path 

To Filmmaking. The story was written by Suna Senman, 

LMSW.

TECHNOLOGY 

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY 

AMPL SmartBackpack 

The AMPL SmartBackpack is more than just a clever application 

of modern technology to a time-tested product. It’s a simple 

solution to a daily struggle. It’s powerful. It’s protective. It’s 

adaptable. It brings peace of mind to on-the-go, connected 

consumers everywhere who are constantly worried about 

whether their portable/mobile devices have enough charge to 

make it through the day. 

What sets the AMPL SmartBackpack (available 

this summer at $299 MSRP) apart from competitors is the 

seamless integration of an intelligent electronics charging 

system into the fabric of the bag. No other product can support 

multiple, modular batteries working as one. No other product 

allows you to manage the charge-priority of your devices from 

the AMPL Mobile App (without even opening a zipper!); none 

support connecting up to six USB devices plus a laptop. 

The SmartBackpack communicates with the AMPL 

Mobile App, allowing consumers to manage not only the the 

charging-priority of their devices (switching the charging from 

your phone to a tablet for a LA-NY flight, for example), 

but monitor battery levels, internal temperatures, and even 

be alerted if they’ve forgotten their bag at their last lunch 

spot. Consumers can also check battery levels and other vitals 

on the OLED display on the front of the bag using capacitive 

touch-sensitive controls. 

In addition to providing power to charge devices on 

the go, the TSA-friendly backpack protects consumers’ portable 

electronic gear with a lightweight, shock-absorbing bottom sole 

and a water-resistant coating on the exterior fabrics. 

For more informtion, please visit http://www.ampl-labs.com 

Images courtesy of AMPL SmartBackpack 

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Images courtesy RideOn 

RideOn 

Navigation and interaction tend to take up a large portion of a skier’s time, and 

we thought there must be a solution that makes it fast and easy to get back to 

skiing. We created RideOn to fill a gap we saw in the the ski experience. We 

wanted to find our locations on a ski resort map instantly, or to quickly contact 

each other when we’d get separated. We wanted to do these things without 

having to take our gloves off, or use our phones. 

I (Ori Kotek) and my co-founder (Alon Getz) each have 13 years’ 

experience in jet-pilot visual technology and inertial systems, so we decided 

to try augmented reality as a solution to our ski problem. Thus, the idea for 

RideOn goggles was conceived in late 2012. 

What distinguishes RideOn from other goggles and devices is our 

delivery of a true AR experience, derived from a see-through display that 

projects data onto the center of your field of view, not on the side. Furthermore, 

users interact with these data and features hands-free just by staring at friends, 

ski lodges, and ski lifts in the distance, or by looking up at floating buttons 

fixed to the sky. The goggles also feature an HD camera for capturing video 

and for video-chatting with friends back home. RideOn uses this camera in 

combination with inertial sensors and GPS to measure user location and head 

orientation, and this is how we can, for example, find your friends’ locations or 

create virtual game graphics that are accurately located on the surrounding 

real world. 

Outdoor AR is a challenge for a few reasons. For one thing, there 

exists a scarcity of thin, wide, and bright enough (for outdoor use) see-through 

display technology in reasonable prices. Also, makers of outdoor AR have 

trouble determining the direction in which the user’s eye is oriented, and 

calculating this quickly and accurately enough, so that the artificial graphic 

symbols are embedded in the surroundings perfectly, has never been done 

before in a consumer product. The progress made in the last few years in mobile 

processing power and efficient computer vision algorithm implementations 

enables us to use the video streaming from the HD camera to assist our GPS 

and inertial sensors in making head tracking a reality, and that’s how RideOn 

determines where the skier is looking. 

runScribe 

Images courtesy of runScribe 

runScribe is a lightweight wearable that mounts on the back of your running shoe and precisely 

captures the movements of your foot during the gait cycle. The precision sensing in runScribe 

and advanced algorithms deliver the most advanced set of running metrics available outside 

of a professional lab environment. Using runScribe is easy. Users simply clip the runScribe to 

their shoe (on the back or laces) and run. runScribe senses when you run, and auto starts and 

stops. When the user is done with the run, they upload their data via an Android or iOS app, 

and analyze and compare their data through the runScribe dashboard. 

runScribe measures 13 kinematic metrics – common metrics like pace and distance, and 

advanced metrics including impact Gs, pronation, stride length and footstrike type. runScribe 

assesses the intensity of your run, based on your history, through a metric called runScore. 

runScore is unique to you, and the score gets smarter over time. Our goal with runScore is 

provide you with a quick way to assess the overall run, compare it to previous runs, and easily 

drill down into the detailed kinematics to understand why your runScore changes in different 

environments. We are making kinematics accessible to all levels of runners. 

runScribe stands out among other running tech: 

• The sheer level of detail and quantity of data runScribe captures is unprecedented. This 

information has not been available to athletes in the wild before. We can finally see how 

running mechanics change in different terrains and in different shoes. 

• We are using crowdsourced data to learn more about the running injury. As athletes and 

scientists, we know that running is a very popular, yet injury prone sport. There is very little 

real world data available to help understand why. We want to learn more about why injuries 

happen and when they are likely to occur. runScribe data will be especially useful because we 

will be able to capture data in the real-world, not just in a lab. 

• Our belief that running technology should not get in the way of the run. With runScribe, 

you aren’t required to run with your phone or a watch. We believe technology should be 

unobtrusive and only available when you need it. Running is a sport we love because it is 

unrestricted and gets us outdoors, so for a running technology to be successful, we believe 

runners shouldn’t feel tethered. 

You can learn more at www.runscribe.com 


CULTURE 

JOURNEY TO THE GAME OF THRONES: CROATIA 

Images courtesy of Adriatic Luxury Journeys 

Perhaps the only thing more exciting the jawdropping 

plot twists and lovably dislikable 

characters on Game of Thrones are the 

stunning landscapes of ‘Westeros’ – all real-life 

destinations shot on-location. 

Of course, the only thing better than 

seeing these dreamy castles and coastal 

sunsets on the silver screen is experiencing 

them live. Adriatic Luxury Journeys (www. 

adriaticluxury.com), a bespoke tour operator 

specializing in personalized luxury journeys to 

Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania 

and Italy, has announced a seven-day “Game 

of Thrones in Croatia” tour highlighting key 

locations from Season 5 along with popular 

sites from seasons past. 

The journey starts at Diocletian’s 

Palace, a 1,700-year-old castle once home to 

a Roman emperor, in the heart of Split. There, 

a local English-speaking guide with first-hand 

knowledge of filming locations will lead guests 

through the narrow walkways at the Fortress of 

Klis – the same halls that Daenarys Targaryen 

walked before chaining her dragon. The tour 

continues through other key filming locations in 

Croatia, including Trsteno (the country’s oldest 

arboretum, which become the gardens of Kings 

Landing on Game of Thrones), and Dubrovnik, 

home of the old city walls attacked by the 

Baratheons in Season 1 and the Lovrijenac 

Fortress, site of the Battle of Blackwater. 

The seven-day “Game of Thrones in Croatia” 

tour starts at $1,495 per person and includes 

all tours with local English speaking guides, 

private transfers with a knowledgeable Englishspeaking 

chauffeur, breakfast daily and 

accommodations at luxury hotels. Adventurers 

and culture enthusiasts can customize their 

experience by adding guided tours to the 

neighboring countries of Slovenia, Montenegro, 

Bosnia, Albania and Italy, or additional cities in 

Croatia, from the historic city of Zadar to the 

cosmopolitan capital of Zagreb. 


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Images courtesy of Pico Jewelry 

RISING TO NEW 

HEIGHTS WITH 

PICO JEWELRY 

Pico Jewelry, a family owned and operated fine jewelry brand 

headquartered in New York City, has been dazzling its clientele with 

elegant and sophisticated jewelry collections since 1976. The owners, 

Anthony Platyan and Victor Bukucuyan, discovered their passions 

for the jewelry world shortly after entering into the business as young 

apprentices. Their dreams of founding and operating a unique jewelry 

store were realized when they opened the doors of Pico! 

With their humble origins as Armenians born in Istanbul, 

Anthony and Victor travel all over the world to find and bring the finest 

diamonds and exotic colored gems to their clients. Alongside their 

professional staff of jewelers, these gentlemen pride themselves on 

running an establishment that prioritizes honest, expedient and friendly 

customer service as well as the superb craftsmanship of jewelry. 

For inquiries please contact: picojewelry@gmail.com 

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