Pretty Woman

Barbara Orbison

Launches Pretty Woman Fragrance and

limited Edition Roy Orbison 12-String Signature Acoustic Guitar.

As entrepreneur, publisher, businesswoman and estate manager of legendary music artist Roy Orbison, Barbara Orbison enjoys a dynamic life.  Her latest venture, the launch of Pretty Woman Perfume is especially personal and marks the fulfillment of a life-long dream to produce a fragrance that embodies the beauty in every woman.

Since she can remember, Barbara was always concocting lotions and potions in her kitchen, creating a delicious skin cream or mixing a delicate fragrance.  Growing up in Germany in a family entrenched in the world of high fashion as owners of a couture clothing line and working as a model herself, she spent many hours backstage at fashion shows surrounded by beauty products.

 

As with all of her projects, Barbara has been involved in every step of the development of Pretty Woman from conception to launch.  She worked closely with perfumers to formulate the exact scent she desired.  She selected the bottle from the prestigious Versailles de Porchet in Paris and worked closely with the graphic designers to craft a package and label that reflects the pure, elegant essence of the fragrance.

 

Pretty Woman is currently available in the UK online at  www.prettywomanperfume.com for around £50 for 1.7oz. The Product has already been launched in speciality retailers in the US including Studio Beauty Mix at Fred Segal, Planet Blue, Private Edition in Nashville, The Peninsula Hotel in L.A., Stanley Korshak in Dallas, Woodley and Bunny in Williamsburg.

 

Barbara continues to manage with great success the legacy of Roy Orbison and has recently seen the launch of the limited Edition Roy Orbison 12-String Signature Acoustic Guitar which is also being signed by all at the Haiti benefit gig this month and auctioned off for Action Aid going torwards the Haiti trust. The model is based upon Roy’s own 1962 Epiphone “Bard” 12-string acoustic guitar.  Orbison used his original Epiphone acoustic to write and perform many of his most well-known songs including perhaps his biggest hit, “Oh, Pretty Woman.” “As a young, brilliant guitar player growing up in West Texas, Roy would have never dreamt that he would one day have his own Epiphone signature guitar named after him. Roy wrote ‘Oh Pretty Woman’ on his Epiphone 12-string acoustic which has remained iconic to this day. I hope the next generation of artists will feel inspired to write another great rock-n-roll song thanks to this amazing limited edition tribute to Roy,” said Barbara Orbison, Roy’s wife.

 

 The Epiphone Roy Orbison 12-string is a faithful reproduction of the 1962 Bard with a solid spruce top and hand scalloped bracing. The offering of this Limited Edition model gives fans of Epiphone and Roy Orbison an unprecedented opportunity to own a classic, vintage vibe 12 string and a piece of one of the most famous and iconic American singer/songwriters of our time.

 

Roy Orbison & Friends: A Black & White Night, a spectacular multimedia event that celebrates Roy’s music that features along with Roy such rock & roll luminaries as Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, T Bone Burnette and k.d. lang.  The production has been licensed to PBS, and continues to be their leading pledge drive for the last 15 years, rivaling even contemporary artists.  The Black and White Night features the Song Pretty Woman which won Roy the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Male Vocalist.  It is still considered one of the best rock and roll concerts on film ever.

 

Barbara has also been a host on QVC selling with great success the Soul of Rock and Roll which contains four CDs and 11 unreleased songs, a 100 page booklet with private photographs.

We have two of these great box-sets to be won in our latest FREE competition: HERE

 

For more information on any of above check out the following links:

www.royorbison.com

www.gibson.com

 www.prettywomanperfume.com