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Boots ’n’ all

When the invitation popped up on her Instagram feed Kara Lauder assumed it was a hoax. The head honcho of a company called Celebrity Connect, which arranges invitation-only events in the lead up to the Academy Awards, wondered if Kara would like to come along and present her western-style boots to the stars and influencers who attended.

Pardon? So with all the cowboy boots available in the USA, did they really want the Aussie entrepreneur from the remote mining town of Paraburdoo in WA’s north west to showcase her wares? A quick Google check revealed that such events do in fact exist, and a few emails

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