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10/29/2008 06:13 PM

Beyoncé Knowles Shows Off New Clothing Line

By: George Whipple

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Beyoncé Knowles and her mother Tina appeared for an enthusiastic crowd at Bloomingdale's to launch this season's collection of their new clothing line, "House of Dareon."

The mother/daughter pair are making some elegant frocks, inspired by Beyoncé's next film, "Cadillac Records," which opens December 5.

"You can see now I have the same neckline I wore in one of the scenes in Etta James and some of the same materials, it's something that's classic and really sexy but still very ladylike," said Beyoncé Knowles.

"Beyoncé brings the youth and she brings the rock 'n' roll and funk to the line and of course I'm more traditional and I think it's a great combination," said Tina Knowles.

Whipple: Now listen, I talk to my mother everyday. If I was in business with her, it'd be tough!

Tina Knowles: You'd be fightin'!

Whipple: Yeah, you fightin' a little bit there?

Beyoncé Knowles: I learn a lot from her. My mother is before her time. There are things that she does that I don't even understand and then I look in the collection books and all of the designers are doing it a year after she said it. She's really gifted.

In "Cadillac Records," Beyoncé Knowles plays Etta James, the real-life blues singer from Chicago of the 1950s and 1960s.

"There are moments in an actor's career that it's very rare that you get a chance to play a character so amazing," said Beyoncé Knowles. "And Etta James was a big inspiration for me and she inspired a lot of choices and changes I made in my new record."

The "Cadillac Records" soundtrack drops December 2, and Beyoncé also has a double solo album coming out on November 18, called "I Am... Sasha Fierce."

"There's beautiful music, there's classic songwriting for 'I Am,' and there's 'Sasha Fierce' with the up-tempo songs like my new single 'Put A Ring On It' and it's a great mixture for both moods," said the singer.

At Bloomingdale's, the crowd went absolutely wild with the collision of music, movies and fashion.