PrettyLittleThing founder Umar Kamani proposes to his model girlfriend in private theatre

Billionaire PrettyLittleThing founder Umar Kamani has proposed to his glamorous model girlfriend Nada Adelle, 27, in Monte Carlo Opera House with a $2million (£1.45M) ring flown in especially from New York.

Umar, 33,  who is worth an estimated £1billion, popped the question surrounded by more than 10,000 white roses and candles in a private theatre after becoming Instagram official with Nada last year.

Romantic Umar, who wore a tuxedo to propose, flew the ring in from celebrity-loved New York jeweller Richard Nektalov and hired 25 musicians to play Beauty and the Beast to Nada as she walked out. 

Manchester-based law graduate Nada, who is no stranger to putting on a sizzling display on social media for her 427,000 Instagram followers, stunned in a sleek white dress as she showed off the dazzling 21-carat diamond ring. 

Nada has been featured in magazines such as Look Magazine and Harpers Bazaar.

She has also fronted a campaign for Beyonce’s Ivy Park brand campaign, and has worked with make-up brand L’Oreal. 

Umar, from Manchester, is the son of billionaire Boohoo founder Mahmud Kamani. 

In 2012, Umar and his brother Adam co-founded PrettyLittleThing after witnessing the phenomenal success of Boohoo. 

The Kamani family has a rags to riches back story, with Indian immigrant Mahmud managing to grow his market stall into a multi-billion pound business.

Mahmud’s father Abdullah moved the family to Kenya, where many Indian families had prospered under the British Empire.

Mahmud was born there in 1964, but four years later the Kamanis were forced to flee to Britain by increasing unrest and draconian employment laws that favoured native Kenyans.

They settled in Manchester, where the entrepreneurial Abdullah sold handbags on a market stall to feed his family, before investing in property and founding the wholesale textile business Pinstripe, where Mahmud worked, using family connections in India to source garments.

By the early 2000s, the firm was selling nearly £50 million of clothing a year to High Street names such as New Look, Primark and Philip Green’s Topshop.

Spotting the potential in the growth of the internet, Mahmud set up his online retailer in 2006 that would deliver their own-branded fashion at rock bottom prices, starting out with just three staff and operating out of a Manchester warehouse.

Today it has a workforce of more than 2,900, and celebrity advocates including everyone from Little Mix to Tallia Storm.

Before he founded PrettyLittleThing, Umar was an amateur boxer and playboy who cared only about partying and chasing women. Now he calls this rather hedonistic lifestyle ‘work’.

He lives a very international lifestyle and his Instragram feed shows him thoroughly part of the jetsettter crowed.

One day he’s ‘topping up his vitamin D’ in the infinity pool at the luxury Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel in Italy, where a sea view suite will set you back nearly £3,000 a night. The next, he’s at the wheel of a Riva yacht cruising along the Amalfi coast before posing on the bonnet of his £264,000 Rolls-Royce Dawn in Beverly Hills. 

You’ll find him lunching at Nobu in Malibu, California, in a pair of £450 Gucci slippers, with a gold Rolex on his arm. He hangs out with rapper P Diddy at the Grammys and Kylie Jenner at the Coachella music festival in California. All events are, naturally, recorded on his smartphone, which has a £790 Louis Vuitton cover.