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Solange goes to the mattress

Leave the set design and pricey props to big sister Beyoncé — all Solange Knowles needs for a sexy photo shoot is a pair of Louboutins and . . . a mattress?

Gracing the June/July issue of Complex magazine, the singer, 26, reveals how being an indie-label artist has taken her on a wildly different path than her sis.

“With that creative independence comes some financial independence,” she jokes, recalling how she pooled flier miles to get a crew to South Africa to shoot a video for her song “Losing You.”