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New Jersey
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New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state but the 11th-most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States. New Jersey lies entirely within the statistical areas of New York City. New Jersey was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, in the early 17th century, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements. New Jersey was the site of decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century. In the 19th century, factories in cities such as Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, around 180 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, New Jersey bordered North Africa. The pressure of the collision between North America and Africa gave rise to the Appalachian Mountains, around 18,000 years ago, the Ice Age resulted in glaciers that reached New Jersey. As the glaciers retreated, they left behind Lake Passaic, as well as rivers, swamps. New Jersey was originally settled by Native Americans, with the Lenni-Lenape being dominant at the time of contact, scheyichbi is the Lenape name for the land that is now New Jersey. The Lenape society was divided into clans that were based upon common female ancestors. These clans were organized into three distinct phratries identified by their animal sign, Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf and they first encountered the Dutch in the early 17th century, and their primary relationship with the Europeans was through fur trade. The Dutch became the first Europeans to lay claim to lands in New Jersey, the Dutch colony of New Netherland consisted of parts of modern Middle Atlantic states. Although the European principle of ownership was not recognized by the Lenape. The first to do so was Michiel Pauw who established a patronship called Pavonia in 1630 along the North River which eventually became the Bergen, peter Minuits purchase of lands along the Delaware River established the colony of New Sweden. During the English Civil War, the Channel Island of Jersey remained loyal to the British Crown and it was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that Charles II of England was proclaimed King in 1649, following the execution of his father, Charles I. The North American lands were divided by Charles II, who gave his brother, the Duke of York, the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony. James then granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River to two friends who had remained loyal through the English Civil War, Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton, the area was named the Province of New Jersey. Since the states inception, New Jersey has been characterized by ethnic, New England Congregationalists settled alongside Scots Presbyterians and Dutch Reformed migrants
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Fair Haven, New Jersey
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Fair Haven is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, along the Navesink River and is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. Fair Haven is located on the Rumson peninsula and is bordered by Red Bank, portions of the borough were exchanged with Red Bank on June 17,1957. Fair Havens first permanent settlement dates to a built in 1816 at the Navesink River near todays Fair Haven Road. By the mid-19th century, steamboats stopped at Chandlers Dock on a route between Red Bank and New York City, bringing visitors to the area and local oysters to the city, Fisk Chapel was rebuilt in 1882 to accommodate the boroughs African American population. The Fair Haven Firemans Fair also has a Firemans night and invites all firefighters from any other firehouse to come, the fair is on the Fire Company grounds. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had an area of 2.112 square miles. The borough borders the Monmouth County communities of Little Silver, Middletown Township, Red Bank, as of the census of 2010, there were 6,121 people,1,970 households, and 1,659 families residing in the borough. The population density was 3,832.5 per square mile, there were 2,065 housing units at an average density of 1,292.9 per square mile. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 70% of the population,13. 8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.11 and the family size was 3.45. In the borough, the population was out with 34. 4% under the age of 18,4. 9% from 18 to 24,20. 5% from 25 to 44,30. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39.3 years, for every 100 females there were 96.7 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and old there were 91.7 males, the Census Bureaus 2006-2010 American Community Survey showed that median household income was $112,308 and the median family income was $113,546. Males had an income of $109,643 versus $62,083 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $54,241, about 0. 9% of families and 2. 7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1. 5% of those under age 18 and 9. 6% of those age 65 or over. As of the 2000 United States Census there were 5,937 people,1,998 households, the population density was 3,559.3 people per square mile. There were 2,037 housing units at a density of 1,221.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the borough was 93. 87% White,4. 09% African American,0. 03% Native American,0. 98% Asian,0. 22% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 33% of the population
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Rumson-Fair Haven High School
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The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1940. As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 938 students and 82.9 classroom teachers, there were 3 students eligible for free lunch and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group J, District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, the facility, constructed with aid from the Works Progress Administration and completed in 1936, is located in Rumson. Students from Fair Haven began attending as soon as the new school opened, since its original construction, the school facility has had three significant additions. In the fall of 2004, information about Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School and it was discovered from the body of an Iraqi physicist, the son of a member of the Iraqi Baath Party. The mans father had a connection to the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The information pertaining to RFH did not include plans, but did contain information about the schools vandalism. The CD also contained information about radon and depleted uranium, the recent Beslan school hostage crisis in which 385 people were killed, half of them students, was compared to the school because RFH, like the Russian school, had construction under way. Police patrols around the school were increased in response to the potential threat, the school had also been ranked 10th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 31st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 30th in 2008 out of 316 schools, the school was ranked 33rd in the magazines September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. In its 2013 report on Americas Best High Schools, The Daily Beast ranked the school 269th in the nation among participating public high schools and 21st among schools in New Jersey. In the 2011 Ranking Americas High Schools issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked in 1, 181st place, the 40th-highest in New Jersey, in Newsweek magazines 2010 rankings of Americas Best High Schools. In Newsweeks May 22,2007 issue, ranking the top high schools, Rumson-Fair Haven High School was listed in 1108th place. The school was the winner of the National Fed Challenge in 2004, in 2008, Rumson-Fair Haven was defeated by Marlboro High School, although, the team put up a stellar performance. In 2008, the school was the winner of the Euro Challenge, an economics competition sponsored by the European Delegation to the United States. The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School Bulldogs compete in the Shore Conference, all schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County and Ocean County, and the league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. The girls basketball won the Group I title in 1996
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Ford Models Supermodel of the World
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Supermodel of the World is an international modeling contest established by Eileen Ford in 1980. The contest showcases young fashion model entrants from over 50 countries in order to new talent for the fashion industry. The winner of the final event receives a $250,000 modeling contract with Ford Models. The two runners up receive contracts of $150,000 and $100,000 respectively, no event was held in 2003
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Emanuel Ungaro
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Emanuel Ungaro is a retired French fashion designer, who founded the fashion house that bears his name in 1965. Ungaros Italian father fled to France from Francavilla Fontana of Brindisi province because of the fascist dictatorship in Italy, ungaros father was a tailor and he gave his son a sewing machine when he was young. At the age of 22, he moved to Paris, three years later he began designing for the House of Cristobal Balenciaga for three years before quitting to work for Courrèges. Four years later, in 1965 with the assistance of Swiss artist Sonja Knapp and Elena Bruna Fassio, later followed the perfumes Senso, Ungaro and Emanuel Ungaro For Men. In 1996, he formed a partnership with Salvatore Ferragamo, in 1997, Ungaro, Ferragamo and Bulgari created a new company, Emanuel Ungaro Parfums. The new perfumes to follow was Fleur de Diva, Desnuda, in 2005, Ungaro retired and sold the label to internet entrepreneur Asim Abdullah for US$84 million. Subsequently, Lohan was appointed Artistic Director, working with new head designer Estrella Archs, the introduction of Lohan, which was meant to give the label publicity, was received with shock and dismay in Paris Fashion Week 2009. In 2010, during Paris Fashion Week, Lindsay Lohan announced that she was no longer working for or with Ungaro, and that she could not comment on the matter because of legal issues. In 2009, the label had sales of about $200 million from fragrance and less-expensive lines sold in Asia, in April 2010, it was announced that Archs had been dismissed and British designer Giles Deacon would be taking over as creative director. In 2008, Avon and Emanuel Ungaro collaborated to launch a new duo of fragrances, U by Ungaro for Her, actress Reese Witherspoon served as the scents spokesperson. In 1988, Ungaro married Laura Bernabei and he has a daughter, Cosima Ungaro. Review/Design, When America Stole The Runway From Paris Couture. The New York Times 10 Sep 1993, Ungaro Corporate Site Emanuel Ungaro at the Fashion Model Directory Interactive timeline of couture houses and couturier biographies
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Shiatzy Chen
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Shiatzy Chen is a Taiwanese luxury fashion house, founded in 1978 by Wang Chen Tsai-Hsia, who is often referred to as the Chanel of Taiwan. In 2010 Forbes magazine ranked Wang as one of the 25 most influential Chinese in global fashion, Wang Chen Tsai-Hsia was born in 1951 in Changhua, Taiwan. She was not formally educated in the industry, learning her trade by working at her uncles factory, in 1978, she and her husband, Wang Yuan-hong, a businessman in the textile trade, founded the Shiatzy International Company Limited in 1978. For over 30 years Wang worked to establish her name in the local market, the Taiwan market is the companys major source of revenue. While predominantly a womenswear company, in 1987 the company added a menswear line, while not bespoke menswear, the range includes off-the-peg changpaos intended for weddings and traditional engagement parties. A popular line is their quilted, often reversible, winter jackets, available in a range of styles, fabrics, patterns. In about 2007 they expanded their catalogue with accessories and a line of available from their three flagship stores in Taipei, Shanghai and Paris. In 1990 Shiatzy Chen set up a studio in Paris to stay on top of fashion trends and this studio also serves as a training center for Taiwanese dressmakers and designers. They opened a store in Paris in 2001. The label has been listed on the London-based Financial Times pick of what is hot in 2004 and it was also deemed the most popular fashion brand in Taiwan by The Wall Street Journal Asia. In 2003 the company entered the Chinese market, opening a flagship store in Shanghai, on The Bund in October 2005. Restoration on the began in late 2001. The interior was designed by Indonesian designer Jaya Ibrahim, the company aimed to have 50 stores in mainland China by 2010 in addition to their 48 outlets in Taiwan,23 directly managed stores and 25 department store counters. In 2007 they opened a factory, measuring 6000 square meters. On October 5,2008 Shiatzy Chen debuted at Paris Fashion Week, on November 9,2009, the company became a member of the Chambre syndicale du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode. In 2010, they held an exhibition of 100 flower-themed dresses at the Taipei International Flora Exposition. In 2011 the company reported sales of about US$60 million, the Evergreen Classic – Transformation of the Qipao - Hong Kong Museum of History. Some of Shiatzy Chens qipao-inspired designs were included in this exhibition. com Shiatzy Chen/modemonline
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Prada
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Prada S. p. A. is an Italian luxury fashion house, specializing in leather handbags, travel accessories, shoes, ready-to-wear, perfumes and other fashion accessories, founded in 1913 by Mario Prada. The company was started in 1913 by Mario Prada and his brother Martino as a goods shop – Fratelli Prada – in Milan. Initially, the shop sold leather goods and imported English steamer trunks, Mario Prada did not believe that women should have a role in business, and so he prevented female family members from entering into his company. Ironically, Marios son harbored no interest in the business, so it was his daughter Luisa Prada who took the helm of Prada as his successor and her own daughter, Miuccia Prada, joined the company in 1970, eventually taking over for her mother in 1978. Miuccia began making waterproof backpacks out of Pocone and she met Patrizio Bertelli in 1977, an Italian who had begun his own leather goods business at the age of 17, and he joined the company soon after. He advised Miuccia—and she followed the advice—on better decisions for the Prada company and it was his advice to discontinue importing English goods and to change the existing luggage. Miuccia inherited the company in 1978 by which time sales were up to U. S. $450,000, with Bertelli alongside her as business manager, Miuccia was allowed time to implement her creativity in the companys designs. She would go on to incorporate her ideas into the house of Prada that would change it and she released her first set of backpacks and totes in 1979. They were made out of a tough military spec black nylon that her grandfather had used as coverings for steamer trunks. Initial success was not instant, as they were hard to sell due to the lack of advertising and high-prices, next, Miuccia and Bertelli sought out wholesale accounts for the bags in upscale department stores and boutiques worldwide. The next big release was a nylon tote and that same year, the house of Prada began expansion across continental Europe by opening locations in prominent shopping districts within Florence, Paris, Madrid, and New York City. A shoe line was released in 1984. In 1985, Miuccia released the classic Prada handbag that became an overnight sensation, although practical and sturdy, its sleek lines and craftsmanship exuded an offhand aura of luxury that has become the Prada signature. In 1987, Miuccia and Bertelli married, Prada launched its womens ready-to-wear collection in 1989, and the designs came to be known for their dropped waistlines and narrow belts. Pradas popularity skyrocketed when the world took notice of its clean lines, opulent fabrics. The logo for the label was not as obvious a design element as those on bags from other prominent luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton and it tried to market its lack of prestigious appeal, including the apparel, was its image of anti-status or reverse snobbery. Pradas originality made it one of the most influential fashion houses, sales were reported at L70 billion, or US$31.7 million, in 1998. Partrizio di Marco took charge of the business in the United States after working for the house in Asia
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Balenciaga
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Balenciaga is a French luxury fashion house founded by Cristóbal Balenciaga, a Spanish designer, born in the Basque Country, Spain. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as the master of us all by Christian Dior and his bubble skirts and odd, feminine, yet ultra-modern shapes were trademarks of the house. The House of Balenciaga is now owned by the French multinational company Kering, Cristóbal Balenciaga opened his first boutique in San Sebastián, Spain in 1919, which expanded to include branches in Madrid and Barcelona. The Spanish royal family and the aristocracy wore his designs, but when the Spanish Civil War forced him to close his stores, Balenciaga opened his Paris couture house on Avenue George V in August 1937, and his first runway show featured designs heavily influenced by the Spanish Renaissance. Balenciagas success in Paris was nearly immediate, within two years, the French press lauded him as a revolutionary, and his designs were highly sought-after. Carmel Snow, the editor of Harpers Bazaar was a champion of his designs. Customers risked their safety to travel to Europe during World War II to see Balenciagas clothing, during this period, he was noted for his square coat, with sleeves cut in a single piece with the yoke, and for his designs with black lace over bright pink fabric. However, it was not until the years that the full scale of the inventiveness of this highly original designer became evident. His lines became more linear and sleek, diverging from the hourglass shape popularized by Christian Diors New Look, the fluidity of his silhouettes enabled him to manipulate the relationship between his clothing and womens bodies. In 1951, he transformed the silhouette, broadening the shoulders. In 1955, he designed the dress, which later developed into the chemise dress of 1958. Other contributions in the era included the spherical balloon jacket, the high-waisted baby doll dress, the cocoon coat, the balloon skirt. In 1959, his work culminated in the Empire line, with high-waisted dresses and his manipulation of the waist, in particular, contributed to what is considered to be his most important contribution to the world of fashion, a new silhouette for women. In the 1960s, Balenciaga was an innovator in his use of fabrics, he tended toward heavy fabrics, intricate embroidery and his trademarks included collars that stood away from the collarbone to give a swanlike appearance and shortened bracelet sleeves. In 1960, he designed the dress for Queen Fabiola of Belgium made of ivory duchess satin trimmed with white mink at the collar. Jackie Kennedy famously upset John F. Kennedy for buying Balenciagas expensive creations while he was President because he feared that the American public might think the purchases too lavish and her haute couture bills were eventually discreetly paid by her father-in-law, Joseph Kennedy. By keeping the press unaware of the design of his garments until the day before they were shipped to stores, he hoped to curtail ongoing piracy and copying of his designs. The press resisted, finding it impossible to get his work into their print deadlines
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Yves Saint Laurent (brand)
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL is a French luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé. Saint Laurent Paris revived its haute couture collection in 2015 under creative director Hedi Slimane, the new collection, Yves Saint Laurent Couture or Saint Laurent Paris 24, Rue de L’Université is the French houses first couture collection ever since the retirement of its legendary founder in 2002. Founded in 1961 it has considered one of the worlds most prominent fashion houses and known for its modern and iconic pieces. Today Saint Laurent Paris markets a range of womens and mens ready-to-wear products, leather goods, shoes. Yves Saint Laurent Beauté also has a presence in the luxury beauty market. Competitors to Yves Saint Laurent include, among many, the houses of Chanel, Burberry, Dior, Gucci, Louis Vuitton. The eponymous brand was founded by designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé in 1961, some of his most memorable collections include the Pop Art, Ballet Russes, Picasso, and Chinese ones. He also started mainstreaming the idea of wearing silhouettes from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s and he was the first, in 1966, to popularize ready-to-wear in an attempt to democratize fashion, with Rive Gauche and a boutique of the same name. Ambassador to the couturier during the late 1970s and early 1980s was London socialite millionairess Diane Vandelli, making the brand more popular among the European jet-set. The brand continued to expand in the 1980s and early 1990s with fragrances for men and women, having launched its cosmetic line in 1978. However, by 1992 the companys profits were declining and the share price had fallen. In 1993, the Saint Laurent fashion house was sold to the pharmaceuticals company Sanofi, in the 1998–1999 seasons, Alber Elbaz, formerly of Lanvin, designed three ready-to-wear collections. Pierre Bergé appointed Hedi Slimane as collections and art director in 1997, Hedi Slimane decided to leave the house two years later, and became head of couture menswear at Dior Homme. In 1999, Gucci bought the YSL brand and asked Tom Ford to design the collection while Saint Laurent would design the haute couture collection. In 2002, dogged by years of health, drug abuse, depression, alcoholism. Reflecting on his career and impact on the industry, Saint Laurent was heavily quoted around the world for stating, Chanel freed women. Saint Laurent also stated, I created the contemporary womans wardrobe, the prêt-à-porter line was produced under the direction of Stefano Pilati after Tom Ford left in 2004. His style was decidedly more French than the overtly sexy image that Tom Ford propagated
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Valentino SpA
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Valentino SpA is a clothing company founded in 1960 by Valentino Garavani. It is a part of Valentino Fashion Group, since October 2008, the creative director is Pier Paolo Piccioli. Alessandra Facchinetti was Valentinos creative designer from 2007 to 2008, Valentino was founded in 1960 when Garavani opened a fashion house on Via Condotti in Rome, Italy with the backing of his father and his fathers associate joey tomatoes. Valentinos international debut took place in 1962 in Florence, the Italian fashion capital of the time, Valentino has also specially designed wedding dresses for Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Lopez, Courtney Cox, Sophie Hunter and Princess Madeleine of Sweden. In 1998, Garavani and Giammetti sold the company for approximately $300 million to HdP, an Italian conglomerate controlled, in part, by the late Gianni Agnelli, the head of Fiat. In 2002, Valentino S. p. A. with revenues of more than $180 million, was sold by HdP to Marzotto Apparel and it was rumored that HDP was displeased with Garavanis and Giammettis personal expenses, a claim at which Giammetti has bristled. Since 2010, Valentino perfumes has belonged to the Puig company
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Chanel
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Chanel S. A. is a French, privately held company owned by Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, who was an early business partner of the couturière Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel. Chanel S. A. is a fashion house that specializes in haute couture and ready-to-wear clothes, luxury goods. In her youth, Gabrielle Chanel gained the nickname Coco from her time as a chanteuse, the House of Chanel is known for the little black dress, the perfume No.5 de Chanel, and the Chanel Suit. Chanel’s use of jersey fabric produced garments that were comfortable and affordable, Chanel used colors traditionally associated with masculinity in Europe, such as grey and navy blue, to denote feminine boldness of character. An example of haute couture techniques is the woolen Chanel suit — a knee-length skirt. The complementary accessories were two-tone pump shoes and jewellry, usually a necklace of pearls, Coco Chanel thus could sell to them the hats she designed and made, she thus earned a living, independent of her financial sponsor, the socialite Balsan. Despite that social circumstance, Boy Capel perceived the businesswoman innate to Coco Chanel, because that locale already housed a dress shop, the business-lease limited Chanel to selling only millinery products, not couture. The First World War affected European fashion through scarcity of materials, in 1915 and in 1917, Harper’s Bazaar magazine reported that the garments of the House of Chanel were on the list of every buyer for the clothing factories of Europe. After the First World War, the House of Chanel, following the trends of the 1920s, produced beaded dresses. Originally, a bottle of No.5 de Chanel was a gift to clients of Chanel, the popularity of the perfume prompted the House of Chanel to offer it for retail sale in 1922. In 1923, to explain the success of her clothes, Coco Chanel told Harper’s Bazaar magazine that design simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance, business partners — late 1920s The success of the No. To that end, the businessman Théophile Bader introduced the venture capitalist Pierre Wertheimer to Coco Chanel, moreover, by 1937, the House of Chanel had expanded the range of its clothes to more women, and presented prêt-à-porter clothes designed and cut for the petite woman. Among fashion designers only the clothes created by Elsa Schiaparelli could compete with the clothes of Chanel. A. at 31 rue Cambon, meanwhile, because of the Nazi occupation’s official anti-Semitism, Pierre Wertheimer and family, had fled France to the U. S. in mid-1940. Later, in 1941, Coco Chanel attempted to assume control of Parfums Chanel. Occupied France abounded with rumours that Coco Chanel was a Nazi collaborator, her identity was secret agent 7124 of the Abwehr. At War’s end, upon the Allied liberation of France, Chanel was arrested for having collaborated with the Nazis, in Switzerland, the news revived Coco Chanel’s resentment at having been exploited by her business partner, for only ten per cent of the money. So she established a rival Swiss parfumerie to create, produce, in exchange Gabrielle Chanel closed her Swiss parfumerie enterprise, and sold to Parfums Chanel the full rights to the name Coco Chanel. As a post–War fashion that used some 20 yards of fabric, having decided to do business with Coco Chanel, Wertheimer’s negotiations to fund the resurgence of the House of Chanel, granted him commercial rights to all Chanel-brand products
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Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
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The Victorias Secret Fashion Show is an annual show sponsored by and featuring Victorias Secret, a brand of lingerie and sleepwear. Victorias Secret uses the show to promote and market its goods in high-profile settings, the show features some of the worlds leading fashion models such as current Victorias Secret Angels Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Behati Prinsloo, Candice Swanepoel, and Lily Aldridge. American network television broadcasts the show during prime time, the first few shows in the 1990s were held in the days preceding Valentines Day to promote the brand for this holiday. They were not aired on national television, in 1999 and 2000 the show was webcast. Beginning in 2001, the shows were moved ahead of the Christmas holiday season, also in 2001, the show made its network television broadcast on ABC, though in all subsequent years, it has been broadcast on CBS. The show has held at a variety of locations in different cities including Miami, Los Angeles, Cannes, Paris. The first four shows were held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, the show is a lavish event with elaborate costumed lingerie, varying music by leading entertainers, and set design according to the different themes running within the show. The show attracts hundreds of celebrities and entertainers, with special performers, each year, twenty to forty of the worlds top fashion models are selected to perform in the fashion show. In a typical year, this includes about a dozen women under contract to the company, known as Victorias Secret Angels. The giant angel wings worn by the models, as well as wings of various forms and sizes such as butterfly, peacock. The first fashion show extravaganza, introduced by Stephanie Seymour, was held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in August 1996, the show also featured Beverly Peele and Frederique van der Wal. She actually did ring the bell at the NYSE as part of the publicity campaign. The subsequent three annual shows were held at the Plaza. The show, which was aired by Broadcast. com, featured Tyra Banks, Laetitia Casta, Heidi Klum, Karen Mulder, Daniela Pestova, Inés Rivero, and Seymour.5 million. In 2001, the show, which was hosted by Rupert Everett, returned to the New York City, the show has continued to be broadcast on network television every year since. From 2002 through 2005, it was held at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City, the 2006 and 2007 shows were held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. On November 13,2007, the Victorias Secret Angels were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame right outside the Kodak Theatre, the other models, who also appeared in that years fashion show, were in attendance that day. The 2008 show coincided with the grand re-opening of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel, in 2006, Victorias Secret sub-brand PINK made its debut on the runway
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Calvin Klein
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Calvin Klein Inc. is an American fashion house founded by the fashion designer Calvin Klein. The company is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and is owned by PVH. In 1968, Klein founded Calvin Klein Limited, a shop in the York Hotel in New York City. The first Calvin Klein collection was a line of youthful, understated coats, in September 1969, Klein appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine. By 1971, Klein had added sportswear, classic blazers, in 1973, he received his first Coty American Fashion Critics Award for his 74-piece womenswear collection - the youngest recipient at that time. Klein won the award again in 1974 and 1975, by 1977, annual revenues had increased to $30 million, and Klein had licenses for scarves, shoes, belts, furs, sunglasses, and sheets. Klein and Schwartz were making $4 million each, after the company signed licenses for cosmetics, jeans, and menswear, Kleins annual retail volume was estimated at $100 million. In 1978, Klein claimed sales of 200,000 pairs of his famous jeans the first week they were on the market, by 1981, Fortune figured Kleins annual income at $8.5 million a year. In the mid-1970s, he had created a designer-jeans craze by putting his name on the back pocket. The gift was assumed by Schwartz to be part of the upcoming line, in the late 1970s, the company also made attempts to set up its own fragrance and cosmetics lines, but soon withdrew from the market with big financial losses. The stunning growth continued through the early eighties, the licensing program, which brought in $24,000 when it was initiated in 1974, had royalty income of $7.3 million ten years later. That year, worldwide sales were estimated at more than $600 million. His annual income passed $12 million, and indeed, in late 1987, it was said that the sale of the company to Triangle Industries, a container manufacturer, had only failed because of the crashing stock market. During his 1990-1995 stint as Calvin Kleins head of design, John Varvatos pioneered a type of mens underwear called boxer briefs. Made famous by a series of 1992 print ads featuring Mark Marky Mark Wahlberg, Klein was named Americas Best Designer for his minimalist all-American designs in 1993, and it came as a surprise in 1999 when it was announced that CKI was again up for sale. Planning to expand its business, the company had been approached by two luxury goods companies, LVMH and Pinault Printemps Redoute, to join Calvin Klein, but nothing resulted. Other potentials like Tommy Hilfiger Corp. and Italys Holding di Partecipazioni proved to be similar disappointments because of CKIs steep price tag of supposedly $1 billion, after seven months and no potential buyer, Klein announced that his empire was not on the market anymore. The company would never manage to go public, which had supposedly been Kleins plan once, in mid-December 2002, Calvin Klein Inc
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Tommy Hilfiger
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Thomas Jacob Tommy Hilfiger is an American fashion designer best known for founding the lifestyle brand Tommy Hilfiger Corporation in 1985. After starting his career by co-founding a chain of clothing and record stores in upstate New York in the 1970s, the company later expanded into womens clothing and various luxury items such as perfumes, and went public in 1992. In 1997, Hilfiger published his first book, titled All American, A Style Book, Hilfigers memoirs American Dreamer, co-written with Peter Knobler, were published November 1,2016. Hilfigers collections are often influenced by the fashion of music subcultures and marketed in connection with the music industry, in 2005, contestants in the CBS reality show The Cut competed for a design job with Hilfiger in a similar fashion to The Apprentice. In 2006, Hilfiger sold his company for $1.6 billion to Apax Partners and he remains the company’s principal designer, leading the design teams and overseeing the entire creative process. In 2012 Hilfiger was awarded the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, thomas Jacob Tommy Hilfiger was born March 24,1951 in Elmira, New York. The second of nine children, both of his parents were practicing Catholics and his father Richard was a watchmaker of Dutch-German descent and his mother Virginia was a nurse of Irish descent. Hilfiger also claims descent from the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Hilfiger has described his upbringing as very happy and he credits his parents with instilling a good work ethic and compassion for others. Hilfiger had an early interest in sports, fashion, and the music industry, one of his brothers, Andy Hilfiger, went on to work as a musician and designer, while Hilfigers other brother Billy Hilfiger would join King Flux as a guitarist. Hilfiger graduated from the Elmira Free Academy high school in 1970 and his parents wanted him to get a college education and pursue a traditional career, and for a time he attended GST BOCES Bush Campus in Elmira. Hilfiger spent the summer of 1969 working in a store on Cape Cod. Opened in 1971 as People’s Place, the first store was located in downtown Elmira in what is now the site of First Arena, and had a salon, a record shop. To stock the store, Hilfiger and his friends would drive to New York City to buy clothing such as bell-bottoms, peasant blouses, and leather jackets. Slightly unsatisfied with the clothing he bought from suppliers, Hilfiger began sketching his own designs. I knew from early work that designing would be my life. Despite its initial success, after seven years of selling hippie supplies like bell-bottoms, incense and records out of ten stores, the Peoples Place went bankrupt in 1977, he’s often referred to this point in his life as his real-world MBA. At this point Hilfiger enrolled in classes on commerce and the side of the fashion industry
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Givenchy
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Givenchy is a French luxury fashion and perfume house. It hosts the brand of haute couture clothing, accessories and Parfums Givenchy, perfumes, the house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy and is a member of Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Pret-a-Porter. It is owned by luxury group LVMH and in 1993 achieved a total worth of $176 million. In 1952, Hubert de Givenchy founded his own house and launched a new collection Les Séparables with some floaty skirts. Givenchy achieved critical acclaim with Vogue magazine praising his wonderful first collection14, the collection included the Bettina Blouse a white shirt named in honour of Bettina Graziani, which was then immortablized by one of Gruau’s paintings. Famous models such as- Suzy Parker, Ivy Nicholson, and Dorian Leigh became muses of the house, in terms of innovation, he used ‘shirting’, a raw cotton similar to pattern paper, to create his chic and casual collections. In 1954, Hubert de Givenchy presented the first shirt dress and he was the first high fashion designer to create a luxury ready-to-wear clothing line, called Givenchy Université, which was produced in Paris using machinery imported from the United States. Before he was able to sign for this new collection, Hubert de Givenchy bought all the shares of his house back from Louis Fontaine. In 1956, both Cristóbal Balenciaga and Hubert de Givenchy presented their collection in New York during a charity gala in aid of the American hospital in Paris, in 1957, the House of Balenciaga introduced the sack dress for the first time. In 1958, Cristóbal Balenciaga launched the ‘Baby Doll’ line, along with the coats line ‘Ballon’, in 1959, the Givenchy studio moved to number 3, Avenue George V in Paris, opposite Balenciaga’s. The same year, Givenchy and Balenciaga announced that their respective collections would be shown to the one month after their presentation to the buyers. In 1969, Hubert de Givenchy launched his line for men « Gentleman Givenchy ». The boutique was opened in November on Avenue George V. Hubert de Givenchy later introduced short dress, on the advice of Cristóbal Balenciaga, Givenchy developed his licences in the seventies, in order to protect the heart of the fashion house, the Haute Couture collections. In 1971, he designed a collection of embroidered coats in honour of Georges Braque, during this period, the House of Givenchy diversified its activities to create shoes, jewellery, ties, tableware, upholstery and kimonos. Hubert de Givenchy was chosen to design the interior of Hilton hotels around the world, in 1976, Givenchy Inc. arrived on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Later, Hubert de Givenchy was elected the personality of the year 1979, in 1982, a retrospective presided by Audrey Hepburn was organized by the Fashion Institute of Technology of New York. In 1988, Givenchy joined LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, few years later, in 1991, a retrospective celebrated at the Galliera Palace the forty years of the fashion house. Hubert de Givenchy left the company in 1995 and he was succeeded by some British young creators such as, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Julien MacDonald
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J.Crew
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J. Crew Group, Inc. is an American multi-brand, multi-channel, specialty retailer. As of August 2016, it more than 450 retail stores throughout the United States. The company conducts its business through retail, factory, crewcuts, Madewell stores, catalogs and its creative director, Jenna Lyons, left the company in April 2017 after 26 years with the brand. The 1980s marked a booming sales period for catalog retail giants Lands End, Talbots, Popular Merchandise initiated its own catalog operation, focusing on leisurewear for upper-middle-class customers, aiming for a Ralph Lauren look at a much lower price. The first Popular Club Plan catalog was mailed to customers in January 1983, throughout the mid-1980s, sales from catalog operations grew rapidly. Growth was explosive—25 to 30 percent a year, Cinader later recollected in The New York Times, annual sales grew from $3 million to more than $100 million over five years. In 1985, the Clifford & Wills brand was launched, selling women’s clothing that was more affordable than the Popular Merchandise line, the brand was sold to Speigel, Inc. in 2000 with the intent to boost sales. In 1987, two left the company to start their own catalog, Tweeds. In 1989, Popular Merchandise, Inc. became known as J. Crew, the company attempted, but failed to sell the Popular Club Plan brand. Also in 1989, J. Crew opened its first retail store, in June 2015, The New York Times reported that J. Crews womens division was undergoing a slump because of the companys failure to react to two market trends, cheap fast fashion and athleisure items. In 2016, J. Crew partnered with Nordstrom to begin selling their products in stores, first Lady Michelle Obama has been reported by numerous outlets to be a fan of J. Crews clothing. As of January 2016, the company operates 551 retail stores, including 287 J. Crew stores,103 Madewell stores, the company also operates internationally in France, UK, China, and Korea. Additionally, the company has 76 locations in Japan, which are operated under license by ITOCHU Corporation, in March 1989, the first J. Crew retail outlet opened in the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, and the company planned to open 45 more stores. Five months after the opening of its first store, J. Crew added two new lines, Classics and Collections. Collections used more complicated designs and finer fabrics to create dressier and more expensive items, while Classics featured clothes that could be worn both to work and for leisure activities. In the fall of 1989, J. Crew opened three new stores in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, San Francisco, California, and Costa Mesa, California, by the end of the year, retail sales nearly hit $10 million. Despite 1989, revenues that were estimated at $320 million, J. Crew suffered a setback when its agreement to sell its Popular Club unit collapsed at the end that year, in addition, rumors circulated that the company’s Clifford & Wills low-priced womens apparel catalog was doing poorly. J. Crew saw revenues reach $400 million in 1990 but reported that its four existing stores had not yet started producing enough profits to cover their overheads, the next phase of store openings included outlets in Philadelphia, Cambridge, and Portland
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Max Mara
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Max Mara is an Italian fashion business. It was established in 1951 in Reggio Emilia by Achille Maramotti, in March 2008, the company had 2,254 stores in 90 countries. It sponsors the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Achille Maramotti began designing couture clothing in 1947, and officially established the House of Max Mara in 1951. The Mara came from his surname, while Max referred to Count Max, Maramotti was one of the first to see that the future of fashion lay in the mass production of designer-quality clothes. The company remains in the hands of the family and they like to maintain a veil of secrecy about the activities of the company, Max Mara has spawned 35 labels, although Max Mara womenswear remains the core of the company. Other brands include Sportmax, Sportmax Code, Weekend Max Mara, Marella, Pennyblack, iBlues, Max & Co. and this last, founded in 1980 and named after Achille Maramottis great grandmother, is one of the best-known, in her obituary of Maramotti for The Independent. As of July 17,2013, Jennifer Garner is the first celebrity spokesperson for Max Mara, starting in September 2013, the campaign appears in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, W, InStyle, The New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune. Achille Maramotti was born on January 7,1927 in Reggio Emilia in Italy, Maramotti was educated in Rome and received a law degree from University of Parma. According to Forbes Rich List of 2005, Maramotti was one of the worlds richest men with a fortune of US$2.1 billion and he was a great patron of the arts, with a great love of the Expressionists, and was also a big investor in Italian banks. He died in Albinea, Italy 12 January 2005, Maramottis two sons and daughter, Luigi, Ignazio and Ludovica, followed him into the business, Luigi Maramotti is chairman of the company. After his death, according to Maramottis will, a large and important collection of art from Europe
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H&M
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H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish multinational clothing-retail company, known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women, teenagers and children. H&M and its associated brands operate in 62 countries with over 4,000 stores and, as of 2015 and it is the second largest global clothing retailer, just behind Spain-based Inditex. The company was founded by Erling Persson in 1947, when he opened his first shop in Västerås, the shop, called Hennes, exclusively sold womens clothing. In 1968, Persson acquired the hunting apparel retailer Mauritz Widforss, which led to the inclusion of a collection in the product range. The company was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1974, shortly after, in 1976, the first store outside of Scandinavia opened in London. H&M continued to expand in Europe, and began to online in 1998. The two-letter domain was registered in the early 1990s, but data on the first registration is lost, the first US store opened in 2000 on Fifth Avenue, New York. In 2008, the company announced in a release that it would begin selling home furnishings. Initially distributed through the online catalogue, there are now H&M Home stores located internationally. Its worth was estimated at $12–16 billion, H&M operated 2,325 stores at the end of 2011, and 2,629 stores at the end of August 2012. Its 3, 000th store opened in September 2013 in Chengdu, the first H&M store to open outside of Sweden was in Norway in 1964, and the first to open outside of Scandinavia was in the United Kingdom in 1976. H&Ms expansion outside of Europe started with the US in 2000, in November 2004, selected company stores offered an exclusive collection by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. In November 2005, the company launched a collection by Stella McCartney and, in November 2006, in March 2007, it launched another collaboration designed by the pop star Madonna. In June 2007 the company worked with game developers Maxis to create a stuff pack for the latters The Sims 2 computer game, in November 2007, the company launched a collection by Italian designer Roberto Cavalli. It was reported that the sold out very quickly. Also in 2007, another design with Kylie Minogue was launched in Shanghai, in the spring of 2008 the Finnish company Marimekko was selected as guest designer and was followed by Japanese Comme des Garçons in the fall. In 2008, H&M used the song Hang On by British singer-songwriter Lettie as background music to its UK website. For spring and summer 2009, the British designer Matthew Williamson created two exclusive ranges for the company – the first being a collection of womens clothes released in selected stores, the second collection saw Williamson branch into menswear for the first time, only in selected stores
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Armani
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The brand utilizes the association of the Armani name with high-fashion, benefiting from its prestige in the fashion industry. By the end of 2005, estimated sales of the company were around $1.69 billion, Armani is the fastest growing fashion brand. The company already operates a range of cafés worldwide, in addition to a bar, Giorgio Armani is a high-end label specializing in mens and womens ready-to-wear, accessories, glasses, cosmetics, and perfumes. It is available only in Giorgio Armani boutiques, specialty clothiers, the logo is a curved G completing a curved A, forming a circle. According to WSJ and other reporters, in addition to couture line Armani Privé, Giorgio Armani. In addition, selling at lower prices are Armani Collezioni, Armani Exchange, Emporio Armani is the second brand of Armani family, features ready-to-wear and runway collections. Emporio Armani focuses on trends and modern traits, Emporio Armani usually only sold in freestanding Emporio Armani boutiques and its official website. Dj Ruru starred in four Emporio Armani underwear campaigns from Spring/Summer 2008 to Fall/Winter 2009-2010, beckham appeared with his wife, former Spice Girl and fashion designer Victoria, in the campaigns twice in 2009. All campaigns were photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, in January 2010, football star Cristiano Ronaldo and Hollywood movie star Megan Fox became the male and female face and body of Emporio Armani. In 2011 Megan Fox was replaced with Rihanna and Ronaldo was replaced by tennis athlete Rafael Nadal, Emporio Armani has teamed up with Reebok to create fashion shoes under the label EA7. Armani Collezioni is the line of Giorgio Armani that retails at a lower price and is less exclusive than Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani. The logo is usually displayed black written on a white label, Armani being larger and Collezioni underneath it. It provides made-to-measure tailored suits and shirts where every element can be chosen, last year, a sporty line of this label has appeared named Armani Collezioni Active in the same way as the EA7 line from Emporio Armani line. Armani Jeans is a collection of denim-related clothing, created in 1981. Armani Jeans is mainly sold in department stores, although there are many freestanding Armani Jeans stores in the world, some Armani Jeans items are sold in Emporio Armani Stores. This line does not feature Giorgio Armanis signature simplicity, the colors used are more diverse than those found in his higher end lines. Brazilian Midfielder Kaka was signed to endorse the jeans, A|X Armani Exchange was launched in 1991 in the U. S. It retails fashion and lifestyle products and is known for its occasionally provocative ad campaigns, inspired by street-chic culture and dance music, it is targeted as the more accessible Armani brand
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Gap Inc.
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The Gap, Inc. commonly known as Gap Inc. or Gap, is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer. It was founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Andreas Antoniou and is headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates five primary divisions, the namesake banner, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Intermix, and Athleta. Gap Inc. is the largest specialty retailer in the United States, as of September 2008, the company has approximately 135,000 employees and operates 3,727 stores worldwide, of which 2,406 are located in the U. S. The Fisher family remains involved in the company, collectively owning much of its stock. Donald Fisher served as Chairman of the Board until 2004, playing a role in the ouster of then-CEO Millard Drexler in 2002, fishers wife and their son, Robert J. Fisher, also serve on Gaps board of directors. Robert succeeded his father as chairman in 2004 and also served as CEO on an interim basis following the resignation of Paul Pressler in 2007, on February 1,2015, Art Peck took over as CEO. They had raised US$63,000 to open the store, in 1970, Gap opened its second store in San Jose, California, its back room serves as the companys first replenishment warehouse. In 1971, Gap established its headquarters in Burlingame, California with four employees. By 1973, the company had over 25 locations and had expanded into the East Coast market with a store in the Echelon Mall in Voorhees, in 1974, Gap began to sell private-label merchandise. In the 1990s, Gap assumed an upscale identity and revamped its inventory under the direction of Millard Drexler, however, Drexler was removed from his position after 19 years of service in 2002 after over-expansion, a 29-month slump in sales, and tensions with the Fisher family. Drexler refused to sign an agreement and eventually became CEO of J. Crew. One month after his departure, merchandise that he had ordered was responsible for a rebound in sales. Robert J. Fisher recruited Paul Pressler as the new CEO, he was credited with closing under-performing locations, however, his focus groups failed to recover the companys leadership in its market. That January, Pressler resigned after two disappointing holiday sales seasons and was succeeded by Robert J. Fisher on an interim basis. He began working with the company in 1980 and joined the board in 1990, and would later assume several senior positions, including president of Banana Republic. The boards search committee was led by Adrian Bellamy, chairman of The Body Shop International, on February 2, Marka Hansen, the former head of the Banana Republic division, replaced Cynthia Harriss as the leader of the Gap division. The executive president for marketing and merchandising Jack Calhoun became interim president of Banana Republic, in May, Old Navy laid off approximately 300 managers in lower volume locations to help streamline costs. That July, Glenn Murphy, previously CEO of Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada, was announced as the new CEO of Gap, Inc
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Dolce & Gabbana
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Dolce & Gabbana is a luxury Italian fashion house founded in 1985 in Legnano by Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The two met in Milan in 1980 and designed for the fashion house. In 1982 they established a designer consulting studio, in time it grew to become Dolce & Gabbana and they presented their first womens collection in 1985 in Milan, where a year later their store would open its doors. In 1988, they launched their line, and in 1989 they began designing underwear. Dolce & Gabbana started to export their products to Japan and other countries like the U. S. where they founded their own showroom in 1990, in 1992, the same year they presented their mens collection, they also launched their first perfume Dolce & Gabbana. They won the Woolmark award in 1991, and the prize most feminine flavor of the year in 1993, towards the end of the 1990s their sales were around 500 million dollars and in 2003 their revenue reached $633 million. By 2005, their turnover was €600 million, Domenico Dolce began his career in the fashion industry after dropping out of a three-year course in fashion design at Marangoni Institute, believing that he knew everything the school had to teach. His dream was to work for Giorgio Armani so one day, inside the door, there was a long white carpet leading to the receptionists desk. Dolce was not sure if he should walk on it with his shoes on, I am such a cretino, he says. He decided that he would look ridiculous appearing at the front desk without shoes, so he approached by sidling along the wall and he handed the book to the receptionist and to this day, Dolce does not know if Armani ever saw the sketches. Dolce found a job as an assistant to a designer named Giorgio Correggiari, One night at a club, he met a young man named Stefano Gabbana. Dolce was impressed with Gabbanas good looks and outgoing personality and Gabbana was happy to hear Dolces advice on how to approach Correggiari for a job. Correggiari ended up hiring Gabbana to work on sportswear, and Dolce taught him how to sketch and the basics of tailoring, Dolce, We always filed two different invoices for the freelance work we did, even when we were working for the same client. Gabbana, Our accountant said, Why not just do one invoice for both of you, put Dolce and Gabbana at the top. So the brand was born, the brainchild of a Milanese bookkeeper, the first collection from the design duo was shown in October 1985 alongside five other up-and-coming Italian labels as part of Milan Fashion Week. The two did not have money to hire models or provide accessories for them, so they sought help from their friends. The models simply wore their personal items to complement the clothing and they used a bed sheet that Dolce had brought from home as their stage curtain. The pair labeled their first collection Real Women, due in part to the use of local women on the runway
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Hogan
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A hogan is the primary, traditional dwelling of the Navajo people. Other traditional structures include the summer shelter, the home. Today, while some older hogans are now used as dwellings and others are maintained for ceremonial purposes. Traditional structured hogans are also considered pioneers of energy efficient homes, using packed mud against the entire wood structure, the home was kept cool by natural air ventilation and water sprinkled on the dirt ground inside. During the winter, the fireplace kept the inside warm for a period of time. This concept is called thermal mass, with government and lender requirements requiring low costs, as well as bathrooms and kitchens, the hogan as a persons home was dwindling away, save for those who could build their own. That began to change in the late 1990s with various small projects to find ways to bring the hogan back. While keeping the space of the hogan relatively untouched, and also meeting the requirements for modern home amenities. Along with assuring the survival of a heritage, this project has also created new jobs, summer school construction experience for Navajo teens, public buildings. These terms are possible Native American sources of the current term hogan, hooghan in Navajo gowąh guughą or kuughą Wigwam Earth lodge Media related to Hogans at Wikimedia Commons
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Burberry
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Burberry Group, Inc. is a British luxury fashion house headquartered in London, England. Its main fashion house focuses on and distributes ready-to-wear outerwear, fashion accessories, fragrances, sunglasses, the first shop opened up in the Haymarket, London, in 1891. Burberry was an independent family controlled company until 1955, when it was reincorporated, the fashion house has dressed notable actors, world leaders, musicians, and athletes. Its distinctive check pattern has one of its most widely copied trademarks. Burberry is most famous for its trench coat, Burberry has branded stores and franchises around the world and sells through concessions in third-party stores. Christopher Bailey has been the CEO and Chief Creative Officer since 2014, the company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE100 Index. In 2015, Burberry ranked 73rd in Interbrands Best Global Brands report, ahead of Ralph Lauren, Burberry has more than 500 stores in over 50 countries. Burberry was founded in 1856 when 21-year-old Thomas Burberry, a drapers apprentice, opened his own store in Basingstoke, Hampshire. By 1870, the business had established itself by focusing on the development of outdoors attire, in 1879, Burberry introduced in his brand the gabardine, a hardwearing, water-resistant yet breathable fabric, in which the yarn is waterproofed before weaving. Burberry was the name, but then the company soon switched to using the name Burberrys. In 1999, it reverted to its old name, Burberry, the name Burberrys of London is still visible on many older Burberry products. In 1891, Burberry opened a shop in the Haymarket, London, in 1901, the Burberry Equestrian Knight Logo was developed containing the Latin word Prorsum, meaning forwards, and later registered it as a trademark in 1909. In 1911 they became the outfitters for Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole, and Ernest Shackleton, a Burberry gabardine jacket was worn by George Mallory on his attempt on Mount Everest in 1924. Adapted to meet the needs of military personnel, the coat was born during the First World War. After the war, the coat became popular with civilians. The iconic Burberry check has been in use since at least the 1920s, Burberry also specially designed aviation garments. In 1937, A. E. Clouston and Betty Kirby-Green broke the record for the fastest return flight from London to Cape Town in The Burberry plane – which was sponsored by the brand. Burberry was an independent family controlled company until 1955, when it was taken over by Great Universal Stores, stars of the modern world began wearing the Burberrys brand
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Carolina Herrera (fashion designer)
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Her socialite grandmother introduced her to the world of fashion, taking young Carolina to shows by Balenciaga and buying her outfits at Lanvin and Dior. She has said My eye was accustomed to see pretty things, in 1957, at the age of 18, she married Guillermo Behrens Tello, a Venezuelan landowner, with whom she had two daughters, Mercedes and Ana Luisa. In 1968, in Caracas, she married Reinaldo Herrera Guevara, therefore, by marriage, Carolina held the title The Marquise consort of Torre Casa, until it was retracted in 1992, as Reinaldo had issued no son. Her husband is an editor of Vanity Fair magazine. In 2009, Herrera became a naturalized United States citizen, in 1965, Herrera began her career working as a publicist for Emilio Pucci, a Florentine Marquis himself and a close family friend. She began working at Puccis Caracas boutique, and moved to New York in 1980, frequently associating with Mick and Bianca Jagger and Andy Warhol, at Studio 54, she became well known for her dramatic style. She first appeared on the International Best Dressed List in 1972, in 1981, her friend Diana Vreeland, then Editor-in-Chief of Vogue suggested that Carolina design a clothing line. Upon this initial success, she returned to Caracas and raised capital to fund a more formal launch and her first runway show in 1980 included future supermodel Iman. Carolina Herrera presents her Ready-to-Wear Collection semiannually at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, in the late 1980s, Spanish fragrance company Puig licensed the Carolina Herrera name to develop and market a line of perfumes. In 1995, the acquired the Carolina Herrera fashion business. As of 2011, her daughters Carolina Jr. and Patricia Lansing participated in the creative direction and design. In February 2016, it was reported by WWD that the side of the business had more than 25,000 points of sale across the globe while the CH brand included 129 freestanding stores. In 2015, the first advert for the brand was released, featuring models Elisabeth Erm, in July 2016 Herrera announced the release of her new womens fragrance to be available for purchase in September, her biggest fragrance launch in 14 years. The scent is called Good Girl and Karlie Kloss is the face of the fragrance, in 2008, she was awarded the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and Womenswear Designer of the Year in 2004. Herrera is a recipient of The International Center in New Yorks Award of Excellence as well as Spains Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts and she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute in 1997. She received the Fashion Group International Superstar Award, the Style Awards Designer of the Year in 2012 and she has been on the cover of Vogue seven times. Since 2004, she has been a member of the board of directors of jewelry designer Mimi So, in 2014, she earned the 2014 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion. Carolina Herrera Spring 2014 Ready-to-Wear Collection Carolina Herrera runway shows and fashion collections Carolina Herrera
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Victoria's Secret
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Victorias Secret is an American designer, manufacturer and marketer of womens premium lingerie, womenswear and beauty products. With 2012 sales of $6.12 billion, it is the largest American retailer of womens lingerie, Victorias Secret is wholly owned by L Brands, a publicly traded company. Victorias Secret was founded by Roy Raymond, and his wife Gaye, in San Francisco, California, eight years prior to founding Victorias Secret, Raymond was embarrassed when purchasing lingerie for his wife at a department store. The companys first store was located in Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, Raymond picked the name Victoria to associate with the refinement of the Victorian era. The Secret was what was hidden underneath the clothes, Victorias Secret grossed $500,000 in its first year of business, enough to finance the expansion from a headquarters and warehouse to four new store locations and a mail-order operation. By 1980, Raymond had added two more San Francisco stores at 2246 Union Street and 115 Wisconsin Street, by 1982, the fourth store was added at 395 Sutter Street. Victorias Secret stayed at that 395 Sutter Street location until 1990, in April 1982, Raymond sent out his 12th catalogue, each catalogue cost $3. Catalogue sales now accounted for 55% of the companys $7 million annual sales, the Victorias Secret stores at this time were a niche player in the underwear market. The business was described as more burlesque than Main Street, raymonds philosophy of focusing on selling lingerie to male customers became increasingly unprofitable and Victorias Secret headed for bankruptcy. In 1982, it had grown to five stores, a 40-page catalogue, Raymond sold Victorias Secret Inc. to Leslie Wexner, creator of Limited Stores Inc of Columbus, Ohio, for $1 million. In 1983, Leslie Wexner revamped Victorias Secret and he discarded the money-losing model of selling lingerie to male customers and replaced it with one that focused on female customers. Victorias Secret transformed from more burlesque than Main Street to a mainstay that sold broadly accepted underwear. The new colors, patterns and styles that promised sexiness packaged in a tasteful, glamorous way and with the appeal of European luxury were supposed to appeal to. The stores were redesigned to evoke 19th century England, from at least 1985 through to 1993, Victorias Secret sold mens underwear. In 1986, four years after the sale, The New York Times commented, in an industry where mark-downs have been the norm, in the five years after the purchase, The Limited had transformed a three store boutique into a 346 store retailer. Howard Gross took over as president from his position as vice-president in 1985, the New York Times reported on Victorias Secrets rapid expansion from four stores in 1982 to 100 in 1986, and analysts expectations that it could expand to 400 by 1988. In 1987, Victorias Secret was reportedly among the best-selling catalogs, in 1990, analysts estimated that sales had quadrupled in four years, making it one of the fastest growing mail-order businesses. The New York Times described it as a visible leader
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Vogue (magazine)
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Vogue is an American fashion and lifestyle magazine made up of many components including fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway. Vogue began as a newspaper in 1892 in the United States. The British Vogue was the first international edition launched in 1916, Turnures intention was to create a publication that celebrated the ceremonial side of life, one that attracts the sage as well as debutante, men of affairs as well as the belle. From its inception, the magazine targeted the new New York upper class, the magazine at this time was primarily concerned with fashion, with coverage of sports and social affairs included for its male readership. Despite the magazines content, it very slowly during this period. Condé Montrose Nast purchased Vogue in 1905 one year before Turnures death and he changed it to a bi-weekly magazine and started Vogue overseas in the 1910s. Under Nast, the magazine shifted its focus to women. The magazines number of publications and profit increased dramatically under Nasts management, by 1911, the Vogue brand had garnered a reputation that it continues to maintain, targeting an elite audience and expanding into the coverage of weddings. According to Condé Naste Russia, after the First World War made deliveries in the Old World impossible, the decision to print in England proved to be successful causing Nast to release the first issue of French Vogue in 1920. The magazines number of subscriptions surged during the Great Depression, during this time, noted critic and former Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield served as its editor, having been moved over from Vanity Fair by publisher Condé Nast. In July of 1932, American Vogue placed its first color photograph on the cover of the magazine, the photograph was taken by photographer Edward Steichen and portrays a woman swimmer holding a beach ball in the air. Nast was responsible for introducing color printing and the two-page spread and he greatly impacted the magazine and turned it into a successful business and the womens magazine we recognize today and greatly increased the sales volumes until his death in 1942. Toward this end, Vogue extended coverage to include East Village boutiques such as Limbo on St, marks Place, as well as including features of downtown personalities such as Andy Warhols Superstar Jane Holzers favorite haunts. Vogue also continued making household names out of models, a practice continued with Suzy Parker, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton, Veruschka, Marisa Berenson, Penelope Tree. In 1973, Vogue became a monthly publication, under editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella, the magazine underwent extensive editorial and stylistic changes to respond to changes in the lifestyles of its target audience. Mirabella states that she was chosen to change Vogue because women werent interested in reading about or buying clothes that served no purpose in their changing lives and she was selected to make the magazine appeal to the the free, working, liberated woman of the seventies. She changed the magazine by adding text with interviews, arts coverage, when that type of stylihtic ceange f ell out of favor in the 1980s, Mirabella was brutally fired. Her take on it, For a magazine devoted to style, in July of 1988, after Vogue had began to lose ground to a three-year-old upstart Elle, Anna Wintour was named editor-in-chief
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Harper's Bazaar
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Harpers Bazaar is an American womens fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harpers Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the resource for women who are the first to buy the best. Writers Alice Meynell, Daisy Fellowes, Gloria Guinness, and Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, when Harpers Bazaar began publication, it was a weekly magazine catering to women in the middle and upper classes. It showcased fashion from Germany and Paris in a newspaper-design format and it was not until 1901 that Harpers moved to a monthly issued magazine which it maintains today. Now Harpers Bazaar is owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation in the U. S. harper & Brothers founded the magazine. This company also gave birth to Harpers Magazine and HarperCollins Publishing, glenda Bailey is the editor-in-chief of U. S. edition of Harpers Bazaar. As the turn-of-the-century began in America, Harpers Bazaar began featuring both illustrations and photographs for its covers and inside features of society and increasingly of fashion. During the late Victorian period, as the suffrage movement was gaining momentum. Bazaar also began profiling prominent socialites, such as the Astors, in 1933, editor-in-chief Carmel Snow brought photojournalist Martin Munkacsi to a windswept beach to shoot a swimwear spread. As the model ran toward the camera, Munkacsi took the picture that made fashion-magazine history, until that moment, nearly all fashion was carefully staged on mannequin-like models in a studio. Snows buoyant spirit and wicked sense of adventure brought life to the pages of Bazaar, Snows genius came from cultivating the best people. Her first big find was art director Alexey Brodovitch, who innovated Bazaars iconic Didot logo, Snow also unleashed the force of nature known as Diana Vreeland, whom she brought on as fashion editor in 1936. The collaboration of these four visionaries resulted in some of the germane fashion shoots of the 20th century and ended only with Snows retirement, at the age of 70, throughout his career at the magazine, Brodovitch, a Russian émigré, revolutionized magazine design. With his directive Astonish me, he inspired some of the greatest visual artists of the 20th century, one of his assistants was future Rolling Stone art director Tony Lane. Sadly, Brodovitchs personal life was less triumphant, plagued by alcoholism, he left Bazaar in 1958 and eventually moved to the south of France, where he died in 1971. Diana, who is said to have invented the word pizzazz, before long, she became fashion editor, collaborating with photographers Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Richard Avedon and, later, art director Henry Wolf. Her eccentricity, perception and wit, as well as her sharp wit and sweeping pronouncements, were memorialized in the movie Funny Face, making her, for many, Richard Avedon began creating fashion portfolios for Harpers Bazaar at the age of 22. His distinctive photographs showed both chic insouciance and boundless vitality, avedons women leapt off curbs, roller-skated on the Place de la Concorde, and were seen in nightclubs, enjoying the freedom and fashions of the postwar era
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I-D
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I-D is a British magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture. I-D was founded by designer and former Vogue art director Terry Jones in 1980, the first issue was published in the form of a hand-stapled fanzine with text produced on a typewriter. Over the years the magazine evolved into a mature glossy but it has kept street style, i-D has also held exhibitions worldwide and published several books. The magazine is known for its photography and typography and as a training ground for fresh talent. Photographers Wolfgang Tillmans, Mario Testino, Terry Richardson, Craig McDean, Nick Knight and Juergen Teller started their careers at i-D, as did Dylan Jones, other photographers that have contributed to i-D include Ellen von Unwerth and Kayt Jones. In 1984, Tony Elliott of Time Out became a partner with a 51% share of the company. Jones remained editor-in-chief and creative director, but he worked on other commercial projects. In 2004, Jones—together with his wife Tricia, regained control of the company. Vice Media acquired i-D in 2012, the magazine pioneered the hybrid style of documentary/fashion photography called The Straight Up. At first, these were of punks and new wave youth found on English streets, tipped on its side, the i-D typographic logo reveals a winking smiley. Most issues of i-D have featured a cover model. I-Ds 25th anniversary in 2005 was celebrated with an exhibition and guest-edited issues, Terry Jones invited a number of creative collaborators to work with him on different identity issues. The collaborators included Ashley Heath, M/M Paris, Alex McDowell, Simon Foxton and Stephen Male, Nick Knight, David Lipman, compiled and Produced by i-D Magazine. Terry and Tricia Jones, and Avril Mair, London, i-D,2000 / Taschen, Cologne. I-D selects the worlds 150 most important designers, i-D selects the worlds 160 most important designers. Initially launched in 2001 to celebrate i-Ds 20th birthday, Smile i-D highlighted the spirit of the magazine, since then, the show toured internationally, growing with each destination to include new material.095. Art gallery, Moscow, April 2007. The exhibition focused on identity, using images, film, sound. Fashion and Textile Museum, London, October 2005 then toured to New York, February 2006, Hong Kong, April 2006, Tokyo, April 2006, Beijing, London College of Fashion, London, February 2007, CP Company, Milan, April 2007
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V (American magazine)
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V magazine is an American fashion magazine published since 1999. The magazine is printed seasonally and highlights trends in fashion, film, music, a mens fashion quarterly entitled VMAN started as an offshoot in 2003. V magazine was launched in September 1999 as the younger sibling publication to the limited-edition quarterly Visionaire, if Visionaire was seen as more of an exclusive haute-couture book, V was going to be the vibrant, less formal, more accessible, ready-to-wear alternative. V releases four issues a year, one for each current seasonal collection, Spring Preview, Fall Preview, Winter Preview, the magazine has a readership of 315,000 as of 2010. V is edited by Stephen Gan and features new American fashion displayed through shoots and editorials focusing more specifically on art, film, music, V has been noted for its inventive and progressive styling, as well as its reportage of cultural figures and global youth culture. Past contributors have included Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Hedi Slimane, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, interview subjects have included Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Robert Altman, Brooke Shields, and Norman Mailer. Icons in fashion, film, music and art to grace the cover include Madonna, Katy Perry, Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Naomi Campbell, Grace Jones, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears, David Bowie and Lady Gaga. In 2005, 7L and Steidl published the book V Best, Five Years of V Magazine, included are popular and successful fashion articles, photos, interviews and more from the first five years of V. In 2016, Lady Gaga was invited to be the guest editor for V for its 99th issue, in March 2016, it was revealed that Britney Spears was selected to appear on the cover of the magazine for its 100th issue. Spears shot three different covers for the issue with photographer Mario Testino. The January 2010 issue of V magazine entitled The Size Issue featured a variety of plus sized models and this edition printed two different covers, one with plus sized Precious star Gabourey Sidibe, while the other featured the petite actress Dakota Fanning. One criticism of the issue argues that the intentions were to juxtapose big. However, others embraced the magazines bold statement and commended V on its efforts to modernize the beauty standard, in 2005, 7L and Steidl published the book V Best, Five Years of V Magazine, chronicling the first five years of the publication. In the September 2008 issue of American Photo Magazine, V magazine photographer Nick Knight was featured for the photo spread Wildflowers that he shot for the March 2008 issue of V. The V Magazine website consists of multiple different navigational links such as, blog, magazine, fashion, articles, photo, the website contains features from the current issue as well as extras and exclusive outtakes that did not get put into the final printing of the magazine. Other interactive technological features on V’s website include the magazines Twitter stream, blog, VMAN magazine featuring mens clothing is an offshoot of V magazine. Established in 2003, it is published quarterly by Visionaire Publishing, also responsible for V, VMAN promotes everyone from unknown up-and-comers to globally recognized celebrities. The magazines target audience caters to the modern, urbanized man interested in whats new in fashion, art, music, travel, list of V magazine cover models V magazine VMAN magazine V-Agency
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Pop Magazine
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Pop Magazine is a quarterly, free press, action sports magazine available in Australia. Each issue of the magazine is available online as well as the version distributed only in Australia. There have been two snowboarding films released under the production and direction of the Pop Magazine owners, there was a potential for a skateboarding film in late 2009. The magazine was founded by Rick Baker and Dave Keating in 2005, Rick Baker was listed as the editor from 2005 to October 2010. Dave Keating is currently editing the magazine, Rick Baker founded the magazine with Dave Keating in 2005. The first issues had only interviews and product reviews in them, since then there has been a large growth in ‘lifestyle’ content such as fashion editorials, music reviews and opinion pieces. The magazine has created a deal of controversy in the snowboarding industry which has had both a positive and negative impact. It is often criticized for airing business issues at a level and has had strong opinions on sections of the industry which have caused ongoing feuds with brands, stores. On 26 July 2010 Pop announced on its website that it had formed a joint venture with Melbourne-based publisher, in the press release that was published on the Pop site that day, co-founder Dave Keating said that Lifelounge were. Going to provide Pop with sales support, management support and takeover back-end tasks in addition to helping Rick, still considered niche, Pop Magazine circulation grew from 10,000 to 20,000 copies in 2009. New South Wales accounts for the second largest readers group accounting for a little over 30% of the readership, the most distinctive part of Pop Magazine has been its design style. Although keeping most pages sparse and clean, preferring large photos, the typography and layout has more in common with business magazines like The Economist and Time magazine than it does with other board sports titles. Pop Magazines website launched in December 2005 as a blog that would cover the progression of each issue of the magazine and it slowly developed over the first 12 months into a way to deliver time-sensitive news that would be out of date by the following issue of the magazine. This led to a redesign of the site went live in May 2007. The redesign allowed for more news to be delivered faster, a frame was added to the site. Although comments on the site are not edited, according to Rick Baker, Pop Magazines third website redesign went live in November 2009. The new site moved away from a ‘blog’ format to a more professional feel. The page load time decreased significantly and there is greater functionality worked in, there are some early criticisms of the site including some problems when viewing in Internet Explorer 6 and that there is too much movement at the top of the page
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Dazed
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Dazed is a monthly British style magazine founded in 1991. Its founding editors were Jefferson Hack and fashion photographer Rankin and it covers music, fashion, film, art, and literature. Beginning as a black-and-white folded poster published sporadically, the magazine soon turned full colour, in 1999 Dazed Film & TV was founded, a production company that would produce the first masthead television broadcast ever, the one-hour special Renegade TV Gets Dazed, for Channel 4. In 2001 the Dazed Group, as it styled itself, launched the luxury biannual AnOther Magazine, in 2005 the Group launched Another Man, a biannual fashion title for men. In November 2006, Dazed launched a new web based strand of the magazine titled Dazed Digital, on 16 May 2008, Dazed & Confused Korea published its first issue. Official website The digital edition of Dazed Dazed magazine audit
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W (magazine)
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W is a monthly American fashion magazine published by Condé Nast, who purchased original owner Fairchild Publications in 1999. It was created in 1971 by the publisher of sister magazine Womens Wear Daily, the magazine is an oversize format – ten inches wide and thirteen inches tall. Stefano Tonchi is the editor of W, Lucy Kriz is the vice president, W magazine has a reader base of nearly half a million,469,000 of which are annual subscribers. 80 percent of the readers are female and have an average household income of $135,840. Often the subject of controversy, W magazine has featured stories, in July 2005, W produced a 60-page Steven Klein portfolio of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt entitled Domestic Bliss. Other controversial issues include Steven Meisels shoot entitled Asexual Revolution, in male and female models are depicted in gender-bending styles. In addition, Tom Fords racy shoot with Steven Klein and the article on sexuality in fashion came as a shock to some loyal readers. During the interview, Ford is quoted as saying Ive always been about pansexuality, whether Im sleeping with girls or not at this point in my life, the clothes have often been androgynous, which is very much my standard of beauty. Steven Klein also was the photographer for the photo shoot featured in the August 2007 issue, showcasing David. Bruce Weber produced a 60-page tribute to New Orleans in the April 2008 issue, most of Ws most memorable covers are featured on the W Classics page on the magazines website. W is also known for its coverage of American and European society, in 2011, Steven Meisel created controversy again by promoting fake advertisements throughout the November issue of the magazine. In 2013, Meisel shoot RuPauls Drag Race Season 3/NY Socialite Carmen Carrera in an editorial called Show girl, in 2013, the magazine started combining the January/December and June/July issues so as to free up money to invest in the magazines digital brand. Citrano later challenged this claim by Moore by offering $5,000 to charity, if Moore could prove that the photo she provided was the original photo from the shoot
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Alexander Wang (designer)
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Alexander Wang is an American fashion designer and the former creative director of Balenciaga. At age 18, he moved to New York City to attend Parsons School of Design, in 2005, after two years at Parsons, he decided to pursue the launch of his own fashion label, which predominantly began with a knitwear collection. In Fall 2007, Wang presented a complete women’s ready-to-wear collection on the New York catwalk for the first time and he won the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2008, an honor accompanied by a $20,000 award to expand ones business. That same year, he launched his first handbag collection, in 2009, women’s T by Alexander Wang was launched, followed by Men’s T by Alexander Wang a year later. In 2009 he was recognized by his peers when he was announced as the winner of the CFDA’s Swarovski Womenswear Designer of the Year Award, also in 2009, Wang was the recipient of the Swiss Textiles Award. Wang is known for his urban designs, after designing a Fall 2008 collection using black as the predominant color, he designed his Spring 2009 collection using bright colors such as orange, dusty purple, aqua and hot pink. In the meantime he has reverted to using mainly black fabrics, on July 31,2015, it was announced that Alexander Wang would leave Balenciaga. Born in San Francisco, California, to Taiwanese-American parents, At 15 years old, Wang attended elementary and middle school at the Harker School. He went to boarding school in Pebble Beach, CA at Stevenson School for 9th grade, during the latter part of his teenage years, he lived in San Francisco and attended the Drew School for high school. Wang launched his full collection in 2007, the collections are selling to over 700 stores worldwide. He was the winner of the 2008 Council of Fashion Designers of America /Vogue Fashion Fund Award, in the November 2010 issue of Vogue in remembrance of winning the award in 2008, in an article entitled The Aluminati. In 2009, he was recognized by his peers when he was announced as the winner of the Swarovski Womenswear Designer of the Year and in October 2009, Wang was celebrated again in 2010 with another Swarovski Designer of the Year Award, this time in the Accessory category. In 2011, GQ US acknowledged Wang as the Best Menswear Designer of the Year, the same year he also won the CFDA’ s Best Accessory Designer award. In October 2013, Wang was honored with the ‘Fashion Star’ awarded by Fashion Group International, the award was presented to Wang by Hamish Bowles, European Editor-at-Large of Vogue US. Alexander Wangs first flagship store opened in SoHo, Lower Manhattan, Wang has helped to rejuvenate an otherwise dissolving area into fashions Lower Manhattan epicenter. “I never really did sports growing up, ” he said of the underlying sensibility that’s been with him since the start, “Maybe that’s why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it’s always been something I look towards. ””On November 30,2012, “As Creative Director for Balenciaga, Alexander Wang oversees the Women’s and Men’s ready-to-wear and accessories lines. His debut Fall-Winter 2013 Balenciaga collection took place in February 2013, at the historic Balenciaga salons located at 10 avenue George V, on July 31,2015, Kering issued a press release announcing that Wang will leave Balenciaga by mutual consent
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Jason Wu
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Jason Wu is a Canadian artist and fashion designer based in New York City. He is best known for designing the dresses of Michelle Obama on several occasions, including those worn during the first, Jason Wu was born in Taipei, Taiwan and emigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at age nine. He attended Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts and Loomis Chaffee in Windsor, Connecticut and he learned how to sew by designing and sewing for dolls, and went on to study sculpture in Tokyo. At age sixteen Wu continued this path by learning to create freelance doll clothing designs for toy company Integrity Toys under the lines Jason Wu dolls. The following year, he was named director of Integrity Toys. While spending his senior year of school in Rennes, France before graduating from the Loomis Chaffee School in 2001. He then studied at the Parsons The New School for Design, Wu launched his ready-to-wear line of clothes with earnings from his years of doll designs. His first Fashion collection started from 2003 not 2006 and he won the Fashion Group Internationals Rising Star award in 2008. Jason Wus dresses were photographed underwater by Howard Schatz for Delta Faucet Companys Brizo branded faucet campaign in 2006. In 2008 he was nominated for the CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund award, bruce Weber shot the designer for W magazines Summer Camp portfolio in July 2008. Wus early clients included Ivana Trump, January Jones, and Amber Valletta and he also worked extensively with drag queen RuPaul, ultimately designing six RuPaul dolls. Wu collaborated with Creative Nail Design for his Spring 2011 collection to create a set of four nail polish colours that was to be retailed from May 2011, in June 2013, Wu was named as the Art Director of German fashion house Hugo Boss overseeing the entire womenswear range. Michelle Obama is a noted Jason Wu customer and she was introduced to Wu by André Leon Talley, Vogue Magazines editor-at-large, who had been advising the former First Family on their appearance. She wore another dress, a custom-designed one-shoulder, floor-length white chiffon gown, appearing on the cover of Vogue, Obama once again wore a Wu design, a magenta silk dress. On April 2,2009, Obama paired a traditional looking teal Wu dress with a blue-patterned cardigan designed by Junya Watanabe on her visit to the Royal Opera House. Mrs. Obama again wore a dress that was designed by Wu, Wu, who is openly gay, married Gustavo Rangel in April 2016 in Mexico. LGBT culture in New York City All Access at Jason Wus New York Fashion Week 360 Jason Wu autumn/winter 2011-12 collection Official Website Jason Wu dolls
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Fendi
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Fendi is an Italian luxury fashion house whose specialities include fur, ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, fragrances, eyewear, timepieces and accessories. Founded in 1925 in Rome, Fendi is renowned for its fur and fur accessories, Fendi is also well known for its leather goods such as Baguette, 2jours, Peekaboo or Pequin handbags. The house of Fendi was launched in 1925 by Adele and Edoardo Fendi as a fur and leather shop in Via del Plebiscito, since 1946, the five sisters of second generation started entering the company and bought new wave of enthusiasm. Karl Lagerfeld joined Fendi in 1965 and became the Creative Director for Fur, silvia Venturini Fendi, daughter of Anna, joined in 1994 and is the Creative Director for Accessories and Mens lines. Since 2001, Fendi became a luxury fashion brand and member of LVMH group. In 2014, Fendi started making plans to use drones to show its catwalk fashions, Fendi invested more than 2 million euros to help restore the Trevi Fountain in Rome designed by Nicola Salvi in 18th century. The restoration works started June 2014, “It’s about tying us with a city that makes millions of people dream, ” Fendi CEO Pietro Beccari said. Official homepage Fendi – brand and company profile at Fashion Model Directory
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John Galliano
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John Charles Galliano CBE, RDI is a Gibraltar-born British fashion designer who was the head designer of French fashion companies Givenchy, Christian Dior, and his own label John Galliano. At present, Galliano is the director of Paris-based fashion house Maison Margiela. Galliano has been named British Designer of the Year four times, in a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the fifth most influential person in British culture. He was born in Gibraltar to a Gibraltarian father, Juan Galliano, and a Spanish mother, Anita and his family moved to England in pursuit of work when Galliano was six, and settled in Streatham, South London, before moving to Dulwich and later to Brockley. He was raised in a strict Roman Catholic family, Galliano, who was shy and diffident, often spoke of his struggle to fit in. Recalling his early days, he admitted, I dont think people here understood where I was coming from. His mother, a teacher, would dress him in his smartest outfit even for a trip to the local shops. His attire, combined with his creative sensibilities, caused him frequent persecution at the London boys grammar school he attended and his first collection was inspired by the French Revolution and entitled Les Incroyables. The collection received positive reviews and was bought in its entirety for resale in the London fashion boutique Browns, Galliano then started his own fashion label alongside long-term collaborators Amanda Harlech, at that time stylist with Harpers and Queen, and Stephen Jones, a milliner. On the back of this success, Galliano rented studio space in London, moreover, he would take his enjoyment of Londons nightlife to extremes. Galliano secured the backing of Paris-based Moroccan designer Faycal Amor who invited him to set up his base in Paris at the Plein Sud headquarters and his first show was in 1989 as part of Paris Fashion Week. Media fashion celebrity Susannah Constantine has worked for Galliano, and he has aided the future success of other designers including shoe designer Patrick Cox. In 1991, he collaborated with Kylie Minogue, designing the costumes for her Lets Get to It Tour, in 1993, Gallianos financial agreement with Amor ended and he did not have a showing in October, missing the season. It was through this partnership that Galliano received the financial backing and this collection was important in the development of Galliano as a fashion house, and is regarded as a fashion moment in high fashion circles. In July 1995, he was appointed as the designer of Givenchy by Bernard Arnault, owner of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, on 21 January 1996, Galliano presented his first couture show at the helm of Givenchy at the Stade de France. The collection received high praise within the fashion media, some of Gallianos designs for Givenchy were licensed to Vogue Patterns. He was later replaced by Alexander McQueen, in October 1996, LVMH moved Galliano to Christian Dior, replacing Italian designer Gianfranco Ferré. At Dior, Galliano received critical acclaim for his Haute Couture, in 2010, Galliano identified his love of theatre and femininity as central to his creations, he said my role is to seduce, and credited Standard Oil heiress Millicent Rogers as an influence
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Behati Prinsloo
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Behati Prinsloo is a Namibian model. In 2008, she became the first Victorias Secret PINK contract model and she has walked in nine consecutive Victorias Secret Fashion Shows. She has opened two Victorias Secret Fashion Shows in a row, the video of Behati finding out she is opening her second Victorias Secret Fashion Show in a row has over one million views on YouTube. Prinsloo was born and raised in Namibia, where her father, Boet, is a church minister and she grew up speaking Afrikaans and was educated in English. Her modeling career began when she was discovered while vacationing in Cape Town with her grandparents and we went to the grocery store after church and this guy came up to me and asked if I was a model and wrote his number on a piece of paper. Prinsloo debuted as a Prada/Miu Miu Exclusive, in 2010, Behati designed Behati Loves Pink swimsuit capsule collection for Victorias Secret. In 2014 she designed a line of denim for THVM, most recently she designed a fashion and accessories collection for Juicy Couture. Models. com ranks Behati on their lists of The Top Sexiest Models as well as their list of The Money Girls, in June 2014, Prinsloo made a cameo appearance in a preview of Missy Elliott protégée Sharaya Js Shut It Down via a T by Alexander Wang campaign. In 2008, she appeared in the video of The Virgins song Rich Girls. Behati has embarked on a trip to Haiti, following 2010s devastating earthquake that caused irreparable damage to the small nation. When she made the journey to Haiti, she was accompanied by a cameraman, the resulting short film, Letters To Haiti, debuted December 7,2011 at Milk Gallery in New York In May 2012 Prinsloo began dating Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. Prinsloo married Adam Levine in Mexico on 19 July 2014, Prinsloo gave birth to the couples first child, a daughter, in September 2016. Behati Prinsloo at the Fashion Model Directory Behati Prinsloo profile at NYmag. com Behati Prinsloo photos at Style. com
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Jasmine Tookes
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Jasmine Tookes is an American model and Victorias Secret Angel. Tookes was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California and she has a younger sister, who is 19 years her junior. She did gymnastics for ten years and was active in volleyball and softball before she became a model at about the age of 15. Her mother is a celebrity fashion stylist, Tookes was discovered at one of her mothers showroom appointments. As a child, she was inspired by Tyra Banks, Tookes is of mixed ancestry, African, Brazilian, and West Indian. Tookes previously dated Danish model, Tobias Sorensen for about four years, now she is in a relationship with Juan David Borrero, a Senior Partnership Manager at Snapchat. Tookes first commercial ad campaigns were in 2010 for ugg boots, before breaking out on the international scene, she booked a Spring 2011 DKNY campaign and a layout in Vogue Italia. Models. com named Tookes as one of the top 10 new models in a September 27,2011 fashion week post, Tookes was selected by Style as its top new model in November 2011 based on her work for the Spring Fashion Shows. She was one of new models for the annual Victorias Secret Fashion Show in 2012. The 2012 show was taped in November and broadcast on the CBS network on December 4, french Vogue named her as one of its 10 New faces from fall/winter 2012-2013 Fashion Week. She has appeared in advertising campaigns for Jimmy Choo, Calvin Klein, Lancôme, DKNY, Ralph Lauren, Kate Spade, Gap, Ugg, in 2015, she became a Victorias Secret Angel. Tookes was selected to wear the Victorias Secret Fashion Show Fantasy Bra at the 2016 show which was held in Paris, Tookes made her debut at No.17 on Forbes The Worlds Highest Paid Models list in 2016, with estimated earnings of $4 million. Jasmine Tookes at the Internet Movie Database Jasmine Tookes on Twitter Jasmine Tookes, Jasmine Tookes at the Fashion Model Directory
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Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)
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Hawaii Five-0 is an American action police procedural television series, which premiered on Monday, September 20,2010 on CBS. The series is a reboot of the series, which aired on CBS from 1968 to 1980. Like the original, it follows a state police task force set up to fight crime in the state of Hawaii. On March 25,2016, CBS renewed the series for a seventh season, on March 23,2017, CBS renewed the series for an eighth season. The series covers the actions of a small, specialized DPS task force in Hawaii, headed by Lt. Commander Steve McGarrett, the task force answers only to the Governor of the state of Hawaii and was given immunity and means to investigate crimes ranging from terrorism to kidnapping. McGarrett chooses as his partner Honolulu PD Detective Danny Danno Williams and he fills out the team by selecting Chin Ho Kelly, his fathers protégé, and Chins cousin, Kono Kalakaua, a rookie HPD cop. They are assisted by Dr. Max Bergman, an examiner for the County of Honolulu, and Jerry Ortega, Chins high school classmate. Steve later adds Lou Grover, a former HPD SWAT commander, to the Five-0 team and Catherine Rollins, Alex OLoughlin as Lieutenant Commander Steven J. Steve McGarrett, USNR. A decorated former Navy SEAL, McGarrett is head of the Five-0 Task Force, johns murder and storyline forms the premise of Steves return to Hawaii and the formation of the Task Force. Scott Caan as Detective Sergeant Danny Danno Williams, HPD and he is a divorced single father who transferred from Newark PD in New Jersey to be with his daughter and is the de facto second-in-command of Five-0. Daniel Dae Kim as Detective Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly, HPD, a veteran HPD detective, he was John McGarretts former rookie and provides technical expertise and local know-how. Grace Park as Officer Kono Kalakaua, HPD, a former surfer, she was personally recruited by McGarrett while still in her final days at the HPD Academy. She is the cousin of Lieutenant Kelly, Masi Oka as Dr. Max Bergman, the eccentric and well-respected County of Honolulu medical examiner Lauren German as Special Agent Lori Weston Michelle Borth as Lieutenant Catherine Rollins, USNR. A former Navy Intelligence officer and McGarretts ex-girlfriend, chi McBride as former HPD SWAT Captain Lou Grover. A transfer from Chicago PD and has two children with his wife Renée, Jorge Garcia as Jerry Ortega, a conspiracy theorist who assisted Five-0 during several investigations and is eventually hired as a consultant. In Episode 7/21, Ua Maloo Ka Wai, Jerry is finally given the badge of a member of the 5-0 team. Taylor Wily as Kamekona Tupuola, a rehabilitated ex-convict, turned entrepreneur and owner of the Waiola Shave Ice, Kamekonas Shrimp Truck and he is a CI for the Five-0 Task Force and their friend. Mark Dacascos as Wo Fat, a lord and mastermind with ties to the Yakuza, arms merchants, terrorists, high-ranking government officials
