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Aroma compound
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An aroma-compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance, or flavor, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor. A chemical-compound has a smell or odor when it is volatile to be transported to the olfactory system in the upper-part of the nose. Generally molecules meeting this specification have molecular weights of <300, flavors affect both the sense of taste and smell, whereas fragrances affect only smell. Flavors tend to be occurring, and fragrances tend to be synthetic. Aroma-compounds can be found in food, wine, spices, floral scent, perfumes, fragrance oils, for example, many form biochemically during the ripening of fruits and other crops. In wines, most form as byproducts of fermentation, an odorizer may add an odorant to a dangerous odorless substance, like propane, natural gas, or hydrogen, as a safety measure. Note, Carvone, depending on its chirality, offers two different smells, furaneol 1-Hexanol cis-3-Hexen-1-ol Menthol High concentrations of aldehydes tend to be very pungent and overwhelming, but low concentrations can evoke a wide range of aromas. Acetaldehyde Hexanal cis-3-Hexenal Furfural Hexyl cinnamaldehyde Isovaleraldehyde – nutty, fruity, cocoa-like Anisic aldehyde – floral, sweet and it is a crucial component of chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, raspberry, apricot, and others. Its smell is so potent it can be detected several hundred meters downwind mere seconds after a container is opened, butane-1-thiol, commonly called normal-butyl mercaptan is a chemical-intermediate. Olfactory-receptors are cell-membrane receptors on the surface of neurons in the olfactory system that detect air-borne. In mammals, olfactory-receptors are expressed on the surface of the epithelium in the nasal cavity. In 2005–06, fragrance-mix was the third-most-prevalent allergen in patch tests, Fragrance was voted Allergen of the Year in 2007 by the American Contact Dermatitis Society. The composition of fragrances is usually not disclosed in the label of products, hiding the actual chemicals of the formula, the EPA, however, does not conduct independent-safety testing but relies on data provided by the manufacturer. In 2010 the International Fragrance Association published a list of 3,059 chemicals used in 2011 based on a voluntary-survey of its members and it was estimated to represent about 90% of the worlds production-volume of fragrances
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Brussels International Exposition (1935)
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The Brussels International Exposition of 1935 a Universal exhibition held in Heysel, near Brussels in Belgium, between 27 April and 6 November 1935. Officially sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions, twenty-five countries officially participated, the theme was colonization, on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Congo Free State. The expo attracted some twenty million visitors, the Belgian art exposition prominently displayed the work of contemporary Belgian artists, including Paul Delvaux, René Magritte and Louis Van Lint, boosting their careers. The Palais des Expositions, and at least three other of the 1935 structures, were re-used for Expo 58 which was held at the site in 1958
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DFS Group
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DFS is a Hong Kong based travel retailer of luxury products. Established in 1960, its network consists of duty-free stores stores located in 17 major airports and 18 downtown Galleria stores and it is privately held and majority owned by the luxury conglomerate Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, alongside DFS co-founder and shareholder Robert Miller. As of January 11,1997, DFS Group operates as a subsidiary of LVMH and it is headquartered in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Hong Kong and has offices in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. DFS Group employs over 9,000 people, operating in 14 countries worldwide, as of 2016, over 200 million travellers visited DFS stores. In 1960, American entrepreneurs Charles Feeney and Robert Miller founded Tourists International, in 1962, two DFS stores were opened at the international airports in Hong Kong and Honolulu, the first duty-free shop in the United States. In 1966, Alan M. Parker and Anthony M. Pilaro joined the DFS as partners, in the 1960s and 1970s DFS Group significantly expanded their operation in Asia and North America. In 1968, DFS opened its first downtown duty-free store in Kowloon, Hong Kong, followed thereafter by Honolulu. In 2005, branded halls opened in Okinawa, Japan launching a new concept for DFS Gallerias. In 2010, DFS University was established for enhancing expertise of the employees, in 2013 DFS reached 420 locations worldwide and undertook a major branding initiative setting the stage for the next generation of expansion. It re-branded its downtown Galleria Stores “T Galleria” and moved to a strategy of localization for airports, in 2015 DFS opened its first transformational wines and spirits duplex store at Singapore Changi Airport, including a raffles long bar. In the year, It also launched T Galleria Beauty by DFS and it is also expected to open in Paris within the renovated Samaritaine complex. Philippe Schaus serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DFS Group, and he joined DFS in 2011 as Group President, Merchandising and Marketing, and was appointed to his current role in 2012. In 1996, LVMH acquired the majority share of DFS Group, buying out Feeney, Parker, in 2004, the company moved its headquarter to Hong Kong from San Francisco, California as part of a corporate restructure. DFS Group has been operating around 420 duty-free stores at 17 international airports,18 downtown Galleria stores, the DFS stores locations are as follows, In 2012, DFS won the Hong Kong International Airport retail concession in all three core categories. In 2015 DFS Group was awarded Best Technology Platform under the Best Treasury, in 2016 it received the 19th Duty-Free News International Asia/Pacific Awards for Travel-Retail Excellence
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Auckland
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Auckland is a city in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the most populous area in the country. Auckland has a population of 1,495,000, which constitutes 32 percent of New Zealands population, a diverse and multicultural city, Auckland is home to the largest Polynesian population in the world. It has also been called Ākarana, the Māori pronunciation of Auckland, the Auckland urban area ranges to Waiwera in the north, Kumeu in the northwest, and Runciman in the south. It is not contiguous, the section from Waiwera to Whangaparāoa Peninsula is separate from its nearest neighbouring suburb of Long Bay, the surrounding hills are covered in rainforest and the landscape is dotted with dozens of dormant volcanic cones. The central part of the area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitemata Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the few cities in the world to have harbours on two major bodies of water. The isthmus on which Auckland resides was first settled around 1350 and was valued for its rich, Māori population in the area is estimated to have peaked at 20,000 before the arrival of Europeans. After a British colony was established in 1840, the new Governor of New Zealand, William Hobson and he named the area Auckland for George Eden, Earl of Auckland, British First Lord of the Admiralty. It was replaced as the capital in 1865, but immigration to the new city stayed strong, today, Aucklands Central Business District is the major financial centre of New Zealand. Auckland is classified as a Beta World City because of its importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, education and tourism. Aucklands landmarks such as the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, the Harbour Bridge, the Sky Tower, the isthmus was settled by Māori around 1350, and was valued for its rich and fertile land. Many pā were created, mainly on the volcanic peaks, Māori population in the area is estimated to have been about 20,000 people before the arrival of Europeans. As a result, the region had relatively low numbers of Māori when European settlement of New Zealand began, there is, however, nothing to suggest that this was the result of a deliberate European policy. Auckland was officially declared New Zealands capital in 1841 and the transfer of the administration from Russell in the Bay of Islands was completed in 1842. However, even in 1840 Port Nicholson was seen as a choice for an administrative capital because of its proximity to the South Island. After losing its status as capital, Auckland remained the city of the Auckland Province until the provincial system was abolished in 1876. Each of the four settlements had about 800 settlers, the men being fully armed in case of emergency but spent nearly all their time breaking in the land and establishing roads
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New Zealand
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New Zealand /njuːˈziːlənd/ is an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses—the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Māui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu—and around 600 smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, the countrys varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealands capital city is Wellington, while its most populous city is Auckland, sometime between 1250 and 1300 CE, Polynesians settled in the islands that later were named New Zealand and developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight New Zealand, in 1840, representatives of Britain and Māori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi, which declared British sovereignty over the islands. In 1841, New Zealand became a colony within the British Empire, today, the majority of New Zealands population of 4.7 million is of European descent, the indigenous Māori are the largest minority, followed by Asians and Pacific Islanders. Reflecting this, New Zealands culture is derived from Māori and early British settlers. The official languages are English, Māori and New Zealand Sign Language, New Zealand is a developed country and ranks highly in international comparisons of national performance, such as health, education, economic freedom and quality of life. Since the 1980s, New Zealand has transformed from an agrarian, Queen Elizabeth II is the countrys head of state and is represented by a governor-general. In addition, New Zealand is organised into 11 regional councils and 67 territorial authorities for local government purposes, the Realm of New Zealand also includes Tokelau, the Cook Islands and Niue, and the Ross Dependency, which is New Zealands territorial claim in Antarctica. New Zealand is a member of the United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, ANZUS, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Pacific Islands Forum, and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand in 1642 and called it Staten Landt, in 1645, Dutch cartographers renamed the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland. British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicised the name to New Zealand, Aotearoa is the current Māori name for New Zealand. It is unknown whether Māori had a name for the country before the arrival of Europeans. Māori had several names for the two main islands, including Te Ika-a-Māui for the North Island and Te Waipounamu or Te Waka o Aoraki for the South Island. Early European maps labelled the islands North, Middle and South, in 1830, maps began to use North and South to distinguish the two largest islands and by 1907, this was the accepted norm. The New Zealand Geographic Board discovered in 2009 that the names of the North Island and South Island had never been formalised and this set the names as North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui, and South Island or Te Waipounamu
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Maurice Roucel
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Maurice Roucel is a contemporary perfumer who has worked at companies IFF, Quest, Dragoco and presently Symrise. Roucel began his career in perfumery on February 19,1973 while working as the head chromatography chemist at Chanel for 6 years and he commenced his apprenticeship under Henri Robert, Chanels house perfumer at the time. He joined Quest International and for 12 years developed his craft as a perfumer before switching to work for Symrise in 1996, most of the fragrances composed by Roucel have his signature scent of Michelia longifolia. He was also the winner of various accolade in the industry including the Prix François Coty in 2002. Maurice Roucel has created many notable perfumes including
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Francis Kurkdjian
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Francis Kurkdjian is a French contemporary perfumer and businessman. And winner of the Prix François Coty in 2001 for his lifetime achievements and he was made famous at age 26 for designing the scent of Le Male for Jean Paul Gaultier, one of the world best selling perfumes. This was followed by an additional forty creations for major perfume companies worldwide, some of these creations include the Elie Saab Le Parfum, My Burberry, Lextase and Narciso Rodriguez for her. Francis Kurkdjian was born in Paris, France on 14 May 1969 to Armenian parents, the Kurkdjian family had at once fled the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide and had settled in France after being deported and relocated to Aleppo. Having been exposed to music and dancing at a young age, however, he failed passing the competition to study at the Paris Opera School of Dance in 1983. Kurkdjian, who already had an interest in making since he was thirteen years old. In 1990, Kurkdjian entered the Institut Supérieur International du Parfum, de la Cosmétique et de lAromatique Alimentaire and he graduated from ISIPCA in 1993 and joined Quest International in Paris the same year. Kurkdjian continued his studies and obtained a degree from the Paris Institute of Luxury Marketing. In 1995, at the age of twenty-six, Kurkdjian created Le Male for Jean Paul Gaultier and this became Kurkdjians first success at perfume making. This was followed by more than 40 creations for major fashion designers and he was the first to open his bespoke fragrances atelier in 2001, going against the trend of perfume democratization. In 2006, Kurkdjian redeveloped the Papier dArménie for the year of Armenia in France and he co-founded his own luxury fragrance house Maison Francis Kurkdjian with business partner Marc Chaya in 2009 near the Place Vendôme in Paris. The Maison Francis Kurkdjian is now a player in the niche luxury fragrance segment with more than 300 locations worldwide
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Peter Lindbergh
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Peter Lindbergh is a German photographer and film director. Lindbergh is known for his cinematic images, Lindbergh was born on November 23,1944 in Leszno, Poland. He spent his childhood in Duisburg, as a teenager, he worked as window dresser for the Karstadt and Horten department stores in Duisburg. Coming from a part of Germany close to the Dutch border, North Rhine-Westphalia, the vast beaches and the industrial settings of his hometown Duisburg, have influenced his work strongly over the years. In the early 1960s, he moved to Lucerne and months later to Berlin where he enrolled in the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts and he hitchhiked to Arles in the footsteps of his idol, Vincent van Gogh. Lindbergh remembers these years, I preferred actively seeking out van Gogh’s inspirations, my idol, rather than painting the mandatory portraits, after several months in Arles, he continued through to Spain and Morocco, a journey that took him two years. Returning to Germany, he studied Abstract Art at the College of Art in Krefeld, influenced by Joseph Kosuth and the Conceptual art movement, he was invited in 1969, before graduating, to present his work at the avant-garde Galerie Denise René. These works were exhibited in the Objets ludiques exhibition at the Tinguely Museum in Basel in 2014, after moving to Düsseldorf in 1971, he turned his attention to photography and worked for two years assisting German photographer Hans Lux, before opening his own studio in 1973. Becoming well known in his country, he joined the Stern magazine family along with photographers Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin. He changed the standards of photography in times of excessive retouching, in considering there to be something else that makes a person interesting. In 2014 he said that This should be the responsibility of photographers today to free women, in 2016, Lindbergh declared that A fashion photographer should contribute to defining the image of the contemporary woman or man in their time, to reflect a certain social or human reality. How surrealistic is today’s commercial agenda to retouch all signs of life and of experience and he photographs his subjects in their natural state, with hardly any make-up. In 1988, Lindbergh gained international acclaim by showing a new generation of models all dressed in white shirts that he had discovered and launched their careers. In a 2008 interview with art historian Charlotte Cotton, he explained that, every time I tried to shoot them in colour, because their beauty was close to perfection, it ended up looking like a bad cosmetics advert. With black and white, you can see who they are. It toned down the commercial interpretation that colour gives, what’s so striking about black and white is how it really helps a sense of reality to come through. Lindberghs first book,10 Women, sold more than 100,000 copies as of 2008 and he twice photographed the Pirelli calendar, in 1996 and 2002. Lindbergh is the first photographer in the history of the Pirelli calendar to be invited to photograph it for a third time
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Patrick Demarchelier
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Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer. Born near Paris in 1943 to a modest family, he spent his childhood in Le Havre with his mother, for his seventeenth birthday, his stepfather bought him his first Eastman Kodak camera. Demarchelier learned how to film, retouch negatives and began photographing friends. In 1975, he left Paris for New York City to follow his girlfriend and he discovered fashion photography by working as a freelance photographer and learning and working with photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Terry King, and Jacque Guilbert. His work drew the attention of Elle, Marie Claire and 20 Ans Magazine and he later worked for Vogue and Harpers Bazaar, first in September 1992 which resulted in a 12-year collaboration. Demarchelier has lived in New York City since 1975 and he is married to Mia and they have twins. Since the late 1970s he has shot the covers for nearly every fashion magazine including American, British. He has also shot covers for Rolling Stone, Glamour, Life, Newsweek and he was also the primary photographer for the book On Your Own, a beauty/lifestyle guide written for young women by Brooke Shields. Since 1992 he has worked with Harpers Bazaar, becoming its premier photographer, Demarchelier was awarded the contract for the 2005 Pirelli Calendar. Over the years he has helped the careers of many artists like Laura Mercier, Jason Marks. Demarchelier is referenced in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, the first assistant Emily calmly jumps into action and calls his office, replying, I have Patrick. He also appears in the documentary The September Issue which is about Anna Wintour and he was called to do last-minute photographs for Grace Coddington after Edward Enninful were not sufficient. Demarchelier appeared in a cameo in the version of Sex. He was featured prominently in the episode of Cycle 15 of Americas Next Top Model. He was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s by The Guardian in March 2013, in 2007, Christine Albanel, French Minister of Culture, honored Demarchelier as an Officer in lordre des Arts et des Lettres. Official website Demarchelier at Luminous Lint Some of his most famous photographs Christy Turlington New York 1992 Nadja Auermann Paris 1994 Nadja New York 1995
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Betty Boop
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Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series and she has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising. Despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the Hays Code to appear more demure, she one of the best-known. Betty Boop made her first appearance on August 9,1930, although Clara Bow is often given as being the model for Boop, she actually began as a caricature of singer Helen Kane. The character was created as an anthropomorphic French poodle. Betty Boop appeared as a character in 10 cartoons as a flapper girl with more heart than brains. In individual cartoons, she was called Nancy Lee or Nan McGrew – derived from the 1930 Helen Kane film Dangerous Nan McGrew – usually serving as a girlfriend to studio star, Bimbo. Within a year, Betty made the transition from an incidental human-canine breed to a human female character. By the release of Any Rags Betty Boop was forever establish as a human character and her floppy poodle ears became hoop earrings, and her black poodle nose became a girls button-like nose. Bettys voice was first performed by Margie Hines, and was performed by several different voice actresses, including Kate Wright, Bonnie Poe, Ann Rothschild. Questel, who began voicing Betty Boop in Bimbos Silly Scandals, today, Betty is voiced by Tress MacNeille, Sandy Fox and Cindy Robinson in commercials. Although it has assumed that Bettys first name was established in the 1931 Screen Songs cartoon, Betty Co-ed. There are at least 12 Screen Songs cartoons that featured Betty Boop or a similar character, Betty appeared in the first Color Classic cartoon Poor Cinderella, her only theatrical color appearance in 1934. In the film, she was depicted with red hair as opposed to her black hair. Betty also made a appearance in the feature film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in which she appeared in her traditional black. Betty Boop was the star of the Talkartoons by 1932 and was given her own series that same year, from that point on, she was crowned The Queen of the Animated Screen. The series was popular throughout the 1930s, lasting until 1939. Betty Boop is regarded as one of the first and most famous sex symbols on the screen, she is a symbol of the Depression era
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Daria Werbowy
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Daria Werbowy is a Ukrainian-Canadian model. She is perhaps best known as a spokesperson for the French beauty brand Lancôme, although born in Kraków, Poland, Werbowy holds Canadian and Ukrainian citizenship. When she was three years old, Werbowys parents Daniel and Anna Werbowy moved to Mississauga, a city in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario and she has an elder brother named Orest and elder sister named Oksana. At age fourteen, Werbowy was 511, willowy and sporting braces and she attended St. Sofia Ukrainian Catholic Elementary School and Cawthra Park Secondary School as a visual arts student. She is a sailor and spent three months in 2008 sailing across the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. In 2011, she embarked on an expedition from Guatemala. Werbowy had never seriously considered modeling, but found herself launched into the business after meeting a schoolmates mother who headed Torontos Susan J. Model & Talent Management, at age 14, Werbowy won a national modelling contest. After switching to Elite Model Management, Werbowy landed several prominent bookings in Canada, Werbowy lived in London and Greece, where she did not find much work. Her first runway season was disrupted and her bookings canceled due to the 9/11 attacks in New York City, after an exhausted eight months, Werbowy returned to Canada. She gave modeling a final shot as a means to fund her art school education, I returned to New York, met my agent and the next day I had an exclusive deal with Prada. From then on it was all a bit of a blur, when the Elite Canadas head scout, Elmer Olsen, started his own agency, Werbowy followed and her career began to flourish. Within a few years, and under the guidance of International Management Group, though she relinquished the worlds No.1 runway model status to new it girls, Werbowy holds the record for opening and closing the most shows in one season. In her first season, Fall/Winter 2003, Werbowy captured two of the worlds most coveted assignments, the cover of Vogue Italia, thrice. She has appeared on the cover of such as international editions of Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, V, W, Marie Claire, Allure, Glamour. Photographed by Steven Meisel, she was presented on the September 2004 cover of American Vogue as one of the Models of the Moment and her earnings between June 2006 and June 2007 were in the order of $3.5 million. On September 6,2008, she was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame and she is the second Canadian model, after Linda Evangelista, to have a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame. Earlier that year, Werbowy launched a three-piece makeup collection by Lancôme for Sephora, the proceeds went to the Vik Muniz charity Centrao Especial for underprivileged youth in Brazil. Werbowy was one of the faces on one of the fourteen covers of V magazine September 2008 issue, each cover boasts a head shot of a famous model, either from the new crop of leading models or the supermodel era
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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Sephora
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Sephora is a French chain of cosmetics stores founded in 1969. Featuring nearly 300 brands, along with its own label, Sephora offers beauty products including makeup, skincare, body, fragrance, nail color. Sephora is owned by luxury conglomerate LVMH as of 1997, the Sephora logo is a white S-shaped flame against a black background. The name comes from the Greek spelling of Zipporah, the most beautiful wife of Moses, Sephora first launched in Paris in a partnership between the UKs Boots PLC and Nouvelles Galeries as a perfumery chain in 1970. It was purchased by Dominique Mandonnaud in 1993, who merged the purchase with his own perfume chain under the Sephora brand, Mandonnaud continued to expand the Sephora brand through the 1990s, opening up its flagship store in Champs Élysées in 1997. In July 1997, Mandonnaud and his partners sold Sephora to LVMH, Sephora opened its first United States store in New York City in 1998 and its first Canadian store in Toronto in 2004. Its North American headquarters is located in San Francisco, with offices in New York City. Sephora currently operates over 360 stores across North America, Sephora launched its online store to the U. S. in 1999 and into Canada in 2003. The Canadian head office was opened in February 2007 by Marie-Christine Marchives, Marie-Christine Marchives returned to France in July 2010 to become the general manager of Sephora France. She was replaced in Canada by Klaus Ryum-Larsen, Sephora currently operates over 1,700 stores in 30 countries worldwide generating over an estimated $4 billion in revenue as of 2013. As of September 2013, the Sephora at Champs Élysées in Paris, France, in 2006, Sephora. com purchased the assets of Eve. com for high six-figures. In 2010, Womens Wear Daily named Sephora the specialty retailer of the year, on 18 November 2014, four customers filed a class action lawsuit against Sephora. On 1 January 2014, Calvin McDonald replaced David Suliteanu as president, Suliteanu was named CEO of Kendo Brands, another business in the LVMH portfolio. In 26 August 2016, Sephora opened its 400th location on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, the store is the citys new flagship location. In August 2015 it was announced that Sephora would launch a subscription service, the monthly subscription service offers boxes containing five deluxe sample size products and a bonus fragrance sample for $10 a month. Boston, Columbus, and Cincinnati were the three cities to test the initial service launch in September 2015. The service launched throughout the US in 2016, in January 2015 Sephora launched FLASH 2-DAY shipping as a $10 annual subscription service. Note, The service is a subscription service that automatically renews at the end of every 12 month subscription period unless you cancel
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Lower Hutt
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Lower Hutt is a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is administered by the Hutt City Council and is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area and it is New Zealands seventh most populous city, with a population of 103,400. The city covers an area of 377 km2 around the half of the Hutt Valley. It is separated from Wellington proper by the harbour, and from Upper Hutt by the Taitā Gorge, though it is administered by the Hutt City Council, neither the New Zealand Geographic Board nor the Local Government Act recognise the name Hutt City. This name has led to confusion, as Upper Hutt is administered by a city council, the Upper Hutt City Council. Before European settlement, thick forest covered most of the Hutt Valley, Māori inhabited the shoreline, with a pa at each end of Petone beach. The local Māori welcomed the arrival of the New Zealand Company ship Tory in 1839, the first immigrant ship, the Aurora, arrived on 22 January 1840, still celebrated every year on the Monday closest as Wellingtons Anniversary Day. A settlement, Britannia, grew up close to the mouth of the Hutt River, the city takes its name from the river, named after the founding member, director and chairman of the New Zealand Company, Sir William Hutt. Within months of settlement the river flooded, and in March 1840 the majority of Britannia settlers decided to move to Thorndon, in the 1840s an area on the west bank of the Hutt River formed the village then known as Aglionby. In 1846 conflict arose between settlers and Māori, which led to skirmishes in the Hutt Valley Campaign, the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake raised part of the lower valley, allowing reclamation of land from swamp. The fault escarpment from the earthquake is still visible, notably at Hutt Central School, the railway line from central Wellington reached Lower Hutt station in April 1874, with the line travelling north up the west side of the river to Silverstream opening two years later. Before the Second World War, urban settlement in the lower Hutt Valley concentrated mainly on Petone, central Lower Hutt and Eastbourne, two years later the railway workshops moved from Petone to a new larger site off the new branch at Woburn. By the end of the 1950s, Lower Hutt had a population of 80,000, the Hutt City Council is made up of a mayor and 12 councillors. Ray Wallace was elected Lower Hutt mayor in 2010, succeeding David Ogden, the citys six electoral wards each elect two councillors. Neighbouring councils are Wellington City Council, Porirua City Council to the north, Upper Hutt City Council to the north-east, the boundaries of the Lower Hutt city local body have evolved from a series of amalgamations and boundary changes over the years. The Hutt County Council was established in 1877 and covered the region from Wellingtons south coast up to Waikanae, in 1941 Lower Hutt became a city. Lower Hutt is covered by two electorates, Hutt South and Rimutaka and two Māori electorates, Ikaroa-Rāwhiti and Te Tai Tonga. The city centres on the valley of the Hutt River
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Wellington Region
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The Wellington Region is a local government region of New Zealand that occupies the southern end of the North Island. The region covers an area of 8,049 square kilometres, the region is named after Wellington, New Zealands capital city and regions seat. The region is administered by the Wellington Regional Council, which uses the promotional name Greater Wellington Regional Council, the Wellington Regional Council was first formed in 1980 from a merger of the Wellington Regional Planning Authority and the Wellington Regional Water Board. A proposal made in 2013 that nine territorial authorities amalgamate to form a single supercity met substantial opposition and was abandoned in June 2015. In its more restrictive sense the region refers to the cluster of built-up areas west of the Tararua ranges, the much more sparsely populated area to the east has its own name, Wairarapa, and a centre in Masterton. To a lesser extent, the Kapiti Coast is sometimes excluded from the region, Otaki in particular has strong connections to the Horowhenua District to the north. The Māori who originally settled the region knew it as Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui, legend recounts that Kupe discovered and explored the region in about the tenth century. The region was settled by Europeans in 1839 by the New Zealand Company, Wellington became the capital of Wellington Province upon the creation of the province in 1853, until the Abolition of the Provinces Act came into force on 1 Nov 1876. Wellington became capital of New Zealand in 1865, the capital after Russell. The region occupies the tip of the North Island, bounded to the west, south. The region covers 7,860 square kilometres, and extends north to Otaki, physically and topologically the region has four areas running roughly parallel along a northeast–southwest axis, The Kapiti Coast, a narrow strip of coastal plain running north from Paekakariki. It contains numerous small towns, many of which gain at least a proportion of their wealth from tourism, rough hill country inland from the Kapiti Coast, formed along the same major geologic fault responsible for the Southern Alps in the South Island. Rough hill country, lower than the Tararua Range but far less economic than the land around the Ruamahanga River and this and the other hilly striation are still largely forested. Other main centres of population are on the Kapiti Coast and in the farming areas close to the upper Ruamahanga River in the Wairarapa. Along the Kapiti Coast, numerous small towns sit close together, from the north, these include Otaki, Waikanae, Paraparaumu, the twin settlements of Raumati Beach and Raumati South, Paekakariki and Pukerua Bay, the latter being a northern suburb of Porirua. Each of these settlements has a population of between 2,000 and 10,000, making this moderately heavily populated, in the Wairarapa the largest community by a considerable margin is Masterton, with a population of almost 20,000. Other towns include Featherston, Martinborough, Carterton and Greytown, the region is by a large margin the wealthiest in the country. The most up-to-date estimates for regional GDP prepared by the Ministry for Economic Development put it at $17, at the 2006 census the region had the largest percentages of people in the four highest income groupings and the lowest percentage of residents in the loss group
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Alber Elbaz
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Alber Elbaz is a Moroccan-Israeli fashion designer. Elbaz worked for the Paris fashion house Lanvin from 2001 until October 2015, Alber Elbaz was born in 1961 in Casablanca, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of 10, after serving in the Israeli Defense Forces, he studied at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan. His life partner is Alex Koo, Lanvins director of marketing, Elbaz began designing for Lanvin in 2001. In October 2015 he announced that he had let go from the fashion house. He designed all of the costumes Natalie Portman wore in the film A Tale of Love and Darkness which she also wrote and directed. In 2006, Elbaz introduced new packaging for Lanvin, featuring a light blue color. Elbaz illustrated the song Lady Jane in singer-songwriter Mikas extended play Songs for Sorrow, in 2012, Rizzoli published a book of 3,000 photographs documenting Elbazs work for Lanvin. Elbazs simple, feminine clothing, which has been compared to Lanvins 1920s outfits, has been lauded by the fashion press, suzy Menkes wrote, Elbaz is every womans darling. And that includes Nicole, Kate, Chloë Sevigny, Sofia Coppola, Israeli fashion Alber Elbaz at the Fashion Model Directory Lanvin collaborates with Acne for a 2009 jean collection, JCReport Alber Elbaz collaborates with H&M, VOGUE. COM UK
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Carol Alt
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Carol Ann Alt is an American model and actress. Alt was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the daughter of Muriel, an employee and model, and Anthony Alt. She was noticed waiting tables in East Williston, Long Island, Alt is of German, Belgian, and Irish descent. During the 1980s she appeared on over 500 magazine covers, becoming one of the most famous models of her era, Alt graced the covers of Vogue, Vogue Paris, Vogue Italia, Vogue UK, Mademoiselle, Elle and Cosmopolitan. She was referred to as The Face by Life Magazine, during the height of her popularity, she was the face of ad campaigns for Diet Pepsi, General Motors, Cover Girl Cosmetics, Noxzema, Hanes, Givenchy and numerous others. She was the first model to produce her own posters and calendars, since 1986 she has appeared in a variety of films, many of which were Italian productions. In 2004 she had a role in Snakehead Terror, a Canadian film. She played Karen Oldham in the adaptation of Peter Benchleys Amazon. She also had a few television roles, including one episode of Wings. She took on a number of projects, including becoming a consultant with the Le Mirador skin-care line. Alt has written two books, promoting her own raw food diet plans and she was the cover girl for travelgirl magazine. She appeared on the cover and in a pictorial in Playboys December 2008 issue. She placed #5 on askmen. coms list of Top 10 Models Of All Time, in 2006 Alt was honored as Grand Marshal at the German-American Steuben Parade in New York City, the largest celebration of German–American Friendship in the United States. She was greeted by thousands of fans alongside Fifth Avenue and she ended up in third place before being fired, but was brought back for the final task of the show and was chosen by finalist Piers Morgan to help him to become the Celebrity Apprentice. Alt raised a total of $40,000 for her charity and she starred in the Italian TV series Caterina e le sue figlie 2 and in the TV movie Piper, both were aired on Canale5 in 2007. In 2009 she was one of the contestants of the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars, shes also filming a new Italian TV series called Piper—The series, a spinoff of the successful TV movie of the same title broadcast on Canale5. In 2008 she founded Raw Essentials, a skin-care and beauty products line with her partners, each installment ends with a segment called Ask Carol, in which she answers questions she receives on Facebook and Twitter. In October 2013, Alt was inducted into the Ride of Fame, a double decker New York City tour bus was dedicated to her and her career
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Shalom Harlow
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Shalom Harlow is a Canadian model and actress. She gained prominence as a model in the early 1990s. She did advertisements and runway modeling for fashion houses such as Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Jil Sander and she was considered an anti-supermodel, and hosted MTVs House of Style alongside her friend and fellow model Amber Valletta. She also appeared in such as In & Out and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. In 2007, she was listed by Forbes as thirteenth in the list of the Worlds 15 Top-Earning Supermodels, Harlow was born in Oshawa, Ontario, the daughter of Sandi Herbert and David Harlow. Her mother named her Shalom, meaning peace or Hello in Hebrew and her father held several jobs as a social worker, real estate agent and financial investor while her mother, Sandi Herbert, worked with mentally challenged adults. Her parents allowed her to experience growing up in a community just outside Toronto. Early on, Harlow took up ballet which she later decided was not for her as she claimed in a 2008, New York Times article and she instead became interested in tap dancing as she enjoyed the noise it created. Harlow was discovered at a The Cure concert in Toronto and started modeling straight out of high school and she has since appeared on numerous magazine covers, editorials, and top runway shows, and appeared in movies and co-hosted MTVs House of Style with fellow supermodel Amber Valletta. She was the favorite model for many designers who found that her look translated well between commercial and couture. She is the first ever winner of Vogue/VH1s Model of the Year Award, Harlow is the spokesperson for Chanels Coco fragrance. She has two brothers, Chris and Nathan. In July 2007, she earned a total of $2 million over the previous 12 months. She has appeared on the covers of such as Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire, W, V, Cosmopolitan
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Marie Gillain
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Marie Gillain O. M. W. is a Belgian actress. In 1996 Gillain received the Prix Romy Schneider and she is single and has two daughters, Dune and Vega. She was the heroine of the John Malkovich play Hysteria in Chicago on December 1999 and she is a model for cosmetics brand Lancôme. In 2013 she was nominated for the Magritte Award for Best Actress, mon père ce héros - Véronique a. k. a. My Father the Hero Un homme à la mer - Camille a. k. a, a Man at Sea Marie - Marie Lappât - Nathalie a. k. a. The Bait Le affinità elettive - Ottilia An Air So Pure - Julie dEspard Le Bossu - Aurore La cena - Allieva a. k. a, the Dinner Harem Suare - Safiye Laissons Lucie faire. - Lucie Barnie et ses petites contrariétés - Margot a. k. a, barnies Minor Annoyances Absolument fabuleux - Safrane a. k. a. Absolutely Fabulous Laissez-passer – Olga a. k. a, safe Conduct Not For, or Against – Caty Tout le plaisir est pour moi - Louise a. k. a. The Pleasure Is All Mine Lenfer - Anne a. k. a
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Isabella Rossellini
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Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in Crime of the Century and she has four other siblings from her fathers two other marriages, Romano, Renzo, Gil, and Raffaella. Rossellini was raised in Rome, as well as in Santa Marinella and she underwent an operation for appendicitis at the age of five. At 11, she was diagnosed with scoliosis, in order to correct it, she had to undergo an 18-month ordeal of painful stretchings, body casts, and surgery on her spine using pieces of one of her shin bones. Consequently, she has permanent incision scars on her back and shin, at 19, she went to New York City, where she attended Finch College, while working as a translator and a RAI television reporter. She also appeared intermittently on Laltra Domenica, a TV show featuring Roberto Benigni, however, she did not decide to stay full-time in New York until her marriage to Martin Scorsese. At the age of 28, her career began, when she was photographed by Bruce Weber for British Vogue. Her image has appeared on magazines as Marie Claire, Harpers Bazaar, Vanity Fair. In March 1988, a dedicated to photographs of her. At Lancôme, in 1990, she was involved in development for the fragrance Trésor. In 1996, when she was 44, she was removed as the face of Lancôme for being too old, in October 1992, Rossellini modelled for Madonnas controversial book Sex. Rossellini also appeared in Madonnas music video for her successful Top 5 hit song Erotica, in 1995, Rossellini worked with the Coty Group and developed her own brand of cosmetics, Isabella Rossellinis Manifesto. She is signed to Trump Model Management, Rossellini was the inaugural brand ambassador for the Italian Silversea Cruises company in 2004, and she appeared in print ads and on their website. Rossellini made her debut with a brief appearance as a nun opposite her mother in the 1976 film A Matter of Time. Her first role was the 1979 film Il Prato, and then in 1980 she appeared in Renzo Arbores film Il papocchio with Martin Scorsese, following her mothers death in 1982, Rossellini was cast in her first American film, White Nights. This was followed by her role as the tortured nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens in the David Lynch film Blue Velvet. Other significant film roles during this period include her work in Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, in 1996, she appeared as herself in an episode of the TV series Friends called The One With Frank Jr. In 2003, Rossellini was a character on the television series Alias
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Ukraine
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Ukraine is currently in territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 but which Ukraine and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of 603,628 km2, making it the largest country entirely within Europe and it has a population of about 42.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. The territory of modern Ukraine has been inhabited since 32,000 BC, during the Middle Ages, the area was a key centre of East Slavic culture, with the powerful state of Kievan Rus forming the basis of Ukrainian identity. Following its fragmentation in the 13th century, the territory was contested, ruled and divided by a variety of powers, including Lithuania, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. A Cossack republic emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries, two brief periods of independence occurred during the 20th century, once near the end of World War I and another during World War II. Before its independence, Ukraine was typically referred to in English as The Ukraine, following independence, Ukraine declared itself a neutral state. Nonetheless it formed a limited partnership with the Russian Federation and other CIS countries. In the 2000s, the government began leaning towards NATO, and it was later agreed that the question of joining NATO should be answered by a national referendum at some point in the future. Former President Viktor Yanukovych considered the current level of co-operation between Ukraine and NATO sufficient, and was against Ukraine joining NATO and these events formed the background for the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014, and the War in Donbass in April 2014. On 1 January 2016, Ukraine applied the economic part of the Deep, Ukraine has long been a global breadbasket because of its extensive, fertile farmlands and is one of the worlds largest grain exporters. The diversified economy of Ukraine includes a heavy industry sector, particularly in aerospace. Ukraine is a republic under a semi-presidential system with separate powers, legislative, executive. Its capital and largest city is Kiev, taking into account reserves and paramilitary personnel, Ukraine maintains the second-largest military in Europe after that of Russia. Ukrainian is the language and its alphabet is Cyrillic. The dominant religion in the country is Eastern Orthodoxy, which has strongly influenced Ukrainian architecture, literature, there are different hypotheses as to the etymology of the name Ukraine. According to the older and most widespread hypothesis, it means borderland, while more recently some studies claim a different meaning, homeland or region. The Ukraine now implies disregard for the sovereignty, according to U. S. ambassador William Taylor. Neanderthal settlement in Ukraine is seen in the Molodova archaeological sites include a mammoth bone dwelling
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Arlenis Sosa
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Arlenis Sosa Peña is a Dominican model. She is the current spokesmodel for Lancôme and appeared in the 2008 Victorias Secret Fashion Show and she married professional basketball player Donnie McGrath in a beachside wedding in punta Cana, Dominican Republic in 2015. Sosa was born in Copey, a district of Pepillo Salcedo in Monte Cristi Province and she received her primary and secondary education at the Evangelical College Simon Bolivar in the city of Dajabón. When she was 16, Sosa intended to further her education in communication studies in Santo Domingo and he complimented Sosa and told her she could be a model in New York. For two and half years, Sosa had to cope with the prejudice of some Dominican designers. Although she could not speak English when she moved to New York, Sosa dove head-first into the fashion industry, with Anna Wintour sending her to the Met Ball during her first week in New York. Two weeks after she signed, she booked her first editorials for major magazines Vogue and Vogue Italia. She since has featured in editorials and articles in American, Italian, French, Teen, Spanish. Sosa made her debut for Banana Republics fall/winter 2008 collection. She participated in Victorias Secrets fashion show in 2008 and she has appeared in advertising campaigns for David Yurman, Topshop, Polo Ralph Lauren, Express, Lancôme, and GAP. Sosa, who is known for her full lips, became the face of Lancôme in September 2008, Arlenis Sosa at the Fashion Model Directory Arlenis Sosa profile at NYmag. com Arlenis Sosa photos at Style. com Arlenis Sosa
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Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
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Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann is an American food editor and writer, fashion model, and socialite of Italian, Swedish, French, and German descent. She is the daughter of Italian actress and model Isabella Rossellini and her maternal grandparents were Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. Wiedemann was born and raised in New York City and attended school at the United Nations International School. Growing up, Wiedemann suffered from scoliosis, a condition that had also afflicted her mother. She attended college at The New School, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and she attended a two-year graduate school program at the London School of Economics in order to receive a masters degree in biomedicine. Wiedemann worked as a model and spokesperson for over 10 years before Impatient Foodie. She has also been a spokesmodel for Lancôme since 2004 and done ads for Lancôme makeup, fragrance, while she was modeling, Wiedemann attended graduate school at the London School of Economics, ultimately receiving her Masters of Science in Biomedicine in 2010. Her MSc dissertation was an analysis of a proposal known as Vertical Farming. At the time, her dissertation was the first ever cross-disciplinary analysis of Vertical Farming, upon graduation from the LSE, Wiedemann launched a pop-up restaurant, GOODNESS, which fused her passion for food with fashion. GOODNESS featured a different chef and different menu every day was an immediate success, GOODNESS popped up twice at NY Fashion Week and at Iceland’s Design March Festival before turning into a show on Vogue’s new channel. Guests included Blake Lively, Seth Meyers, Grace Coddington, Impatient Foodie is where Wiedemann shares recipes she has created and/or tested herself that impatient cooks all over the world can easily recreate. In January 2015, Wiedemann served as an ambassador for Moet & Chandon and was asked to create the recipes for two signature champagne cocktails to be served at the 72nd Golden Globes. She has also written for publications including Refinery29, VICE Munchies, Teen Vogue, SELF, Paper Magazine, The Cut, elettra has three half siblings from her fathers second marriage. She also has a brother on her mothers side, Wiedemann raced in several triathlons and three half Ironman races. For her last race she renounced energy gels and baked all her own, bite-size food for racing fuel and is convinced it helped her achieve her fastest 70.3 time
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Michelle Phan
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Michelle Phan is an American make-up demonstrator and entrepreneur who became notable as a YouTube personality. Phans YouTube channel has over 8 million subscribers,1.1 billion lifetime views, Michelle Phan was born on April 11,1987, in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a brother and a younger half sister. Phan and her family moved to Tampa, Florida where she attended Tampa Bay Technical High School, Phan attended Ringling College of Art and Design. In March 2014, Ringling gave Phan an Honorary Doctorate of Arts degree, in 2005, Phan had a personal blog in which she discussed different makeup tutorials and received requests for further instruction. She began posting tutorial vlogs on Xanga under the username Ricebunny and she patterned her production style on Bob Ross, There is something magical about narration and voiceovers. Recording a voiceover is an art form in itself, buzzFeed featured two of Phans How To Get Lady Gagas Eyes makeup tutorials in 2009 and 2010, which helped them go viral and brought her over a million subscribers. Phan became a YouTube advertising partner and launched FAWN, a YouTube MCN, in 2010, Lancôme made Phan their official video make-up artist after she featured some of their products in her videos. She became their first Vietnamese spokesperson, acting as Lancômes representative not only in the United States, in 2011, Phan co-founded MyGlam, a monthly beauty products subscription service, which has since been renamed ipsy, launched in September 2012. Ipsy is a sponsor of Generation Beauty, a beauty conference that Phan helped organize, on August 15,2013, LOreal launched a new cosmetic line called em by Michelle Phan, dedicating the brand to her mother. In May 2014, Phan announced her partnership with Endemol Beyond USA to build a talent network that will feature people from YouTube, the ICON network, dedicated to beauty, lifestyle and entertainment, launched in March 2015 online and on television via Roku. In September 2014, Phan partnered with Cutting Edge Group to launch Shift Music Group, Phan also launched a book with Random House in October 2014, called “Make Up, Your Life Guide to Beauty, Style, and Success -- Online and Off. In 2014, Phans YouTube Channel was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels, in 2015, Phan was named to the Inc.30 under 30 and Forbes 30 under 30 lists. The same year, Michelle Phan raised $100 million to value the company Ipsy at over $500 million, on February 2016, Phan announced that she will voice Jessica Jones on the mobile game Marvel Avengers Academy. In July 2014, it was announced that Phan was being sued by Ultra Records over alleged copyright infringement relating to the used in her YouTube videos. Ultra plans to seek up to $150,000 in damages per infringement, according to the lawsuit, in total it is estimated that Ultra is seeking up to $7.5 million from Phan to compensate for her use of the labels artists music. Phan filed a counter-suit against Ultra Records on September 18,2014 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. It has also said that Ultra Records is seeking a higher payback per video due to Phans rise in celebrity via YouTubes growing platform
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Juliette Binoche
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Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 60 feature films, been recipient of international awards. Coming from a background, she began taking acting lessons during adolescence. Her sensual performance in her English-language debut The Unbearable Lightness of Being, directed by Philip Kaufman, for her performance in Lasse Hallströms romantic comedy Chocolat, Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. During the 2000s she maintained a career, alternating between French and English language roles in both mainstream and art-house productions. In 2010, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostamis Certified Copy making her the first actress to win the European Best Actress Triple Crown. In 2008 she began a tour with a modern dance production in-i devised in collaboration with Akram Khan. Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique Yvette Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress. Her father, who is French, also has one eighth Portuguese-Brazilian ancestry, juliettes mother was born in Częstochowa, Poland. Binoches maternal grandfather, Andre Stalens, was born in Poland, of Belgian and French descent, both of them were actors who were born in Częstochowa, the German Nazi occupiers imprisoned them at Auschwitz as intellectuals. When Binoches parents divorced in 1968, four-year-old Binoche and her sister Marion were sent to a boarding school. During their teens, the Binoche sisters spent their holidays with their maternal grandmother. Binoche has stated that this perceived parental abandonment had an effect on her. She was not particularly academic and in her years began acting at school in amateur stage-productions. At 17 she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play and she studied acting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur dArt Dramatique, but quit after a short time as she disliked the curriculum. In the early 1980s, she found an agent through a friend and joined a troupe, touring France, Belgium. Around this time she began lessons with acting coach Vera Gregh, after this Binoche secured her first feature-film appearance with a minor role in Pascal Kanés Liberty Belle. Her role required just two days on–set, but was enough to inspire Binoche to pursue a career in film, Binoches early films established her as a French star of some renown
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Uma Thurman
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Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress and model. She has performed in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies, following her appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British Vogue, she starred in Dangerous Liaisons. She starred in more films throughout the 1990s such as Batman & Robin, Gattaca. Thurman was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Film for Hysterical Blindness, hailed as Quentin Tarantinos muse, she reunited with the director to play the main role in both Kill Bill films, which brought her two additional Golden Globe Award nominations. Other acting credits in the decade include Be Cool, The Producers, Thurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her forename Uma, Sanskrit उमा, literally means splendour, light and her father, Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman, is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, an academic and writer, he lived as an ordained Buddhist monk for three years. Her mother, Nena von Schlebrügge, was German nobility and a model, discovered in Stockholm. Thurmans mother was born in Mexico City, Mexico, of Swedish, German and Danish descent, while Thurmans father was born in New York, Thurman received a Buddhist upbringing, and spent altogether around two years in the Indo-Himalayan town of Almora. She now considers herself to be an agnostic and she grew up mostly in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she went to Amherst Regional Middle School, then moved to Woodstock, New York. She has three brothers, Ganden, Dechen, and Mipam, and a half-sister named Taya, from her fathers previous marriage, Thurmans first cousin, once removed, is Swedish football player Max von Schlebrügge. Thurman is described as having been an awkward and introverted girl who was teased for her tall frame, angular bone structure, enormous feet, when Thurman was 10 years old, a friends mother suggested a nose job. As a child, she suffered bouts of body dysmorphic disorder, in the eighth grade she discovered her love for acting. Talent scouts noticed her performance as Abigail in a production of The Crucible, Thurman attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, a preparatory school in Massachusetts, before dropping out to pursue a career in acting. Thurman began her career as a model at age 15. Her early modeling credits included Glamour and the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British Vogue and she made her movie debut in 1988, appearing in four films that year. Her first two were the school comedy Johnny Be Good and teen thriller Kiss Daddy Goodnight. The most notable of these first four films was Oscar-winning drama Dangerous Liaisons, a commercial success, the picture also garnered Thurman recognition and acclaim from critics and audiences, film critic Roger Ebert found her to be well cast in her tricky key role. At the time, insecure about her appearance, she spent roughly a year in London, during which she often wore loose, malkovich said of her, There is nothing twitchy teenager-ish about her, I haven’t met anyone like her at that age
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Drew Barrymore
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Drew Blythe Barrymore is an American actress, author, director, model and producer. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American stage and film actors, Barrymore began acting on television, and soon transitioned to film with roles in E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Irreconcilable Differences. Following a turbulent childhood that was marked by drug and alcohol abuse with two stints in rehab, she wrote her autobiography, Little Girl Lost and she appeared in a string of hit films, including Poison Ivy, Boys on the Side, Scream and Ever After. She has also co-starred with Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer,50 First Dates, Other acting credits include Music and Lyrics, Hes Just Not That Into You, Going the Distance and Miss You Already. Barrymore won the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Little Edie in Grey Gardens, Barrymore currently stars with Timothy Olyphant in the Netflix comedy series Santa Clarita Diet. She was named an Ambassador Against Hunger for the UN World Food Programme, since then, she has donated over $1 million to the program. A recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Barrymore was born in Culver City, California, to actor John and Jaid, an aspiring actress. Barrymores mother was born in a displaced persons camp in Brannenburg, West Germany and her parents divorced in 1984, when she was nine years old. She is one of four children with a half-brother, John and her godfather is Steven Spielberg while her godmother is Anna Strasberg, Lee Strasbergs widow. Meanwhile, Barrymore is the god-daughter of director Steven Spielberg, Barrymore recounted in her 1989 autobiography, Little Girl Lost, early memories of her abusive father, who left the family when Barrymore was six months old. They never had anything resembling a significant relationship and seldom spoke to each other, Barrymore grew up on Poinsetta Place in West Hollywood until the age of 7, when she moved to Sherman Oaks. In her 2015 memoir Wildflower, she says she talks like a girl because she grew up in Sherman Oaks. She moved back to West Hollywood upon becoming emancipated at 14, Barrymore attended elementary school at Fountain Day School in West Hollywood and Country School. In the wake of her stardom, Barrymore endured a notoriously troubled childhood. Her nightlife and constant partying became a subject with the media. She was in rehab at the age of fourteen, where she spent eighteen months in an institution for the mentally ill, a suicide attempt, also at age fourteen, put her back in rehab, followed by a three-month stay with singer David Crosby and his wife. The stay was precipitated, Crosby said, because she needed to be some people that were committed to sobriety. Barrymore later described this period of her life in her autobiography, after a successful juvenile court petition for emancipation, she moved into her own apartment at the age of fifteen
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Mena Suvari
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Mena Alexandra Suvari is an American actress, fashion designer and model. Shortly after beginning her career as a model, Suvari appeared in guest roles on such 1990s television shows as Boy Meets World and she made her film debut in the drama Nowhere. She achieved international fame for her roles as Angela Hayes in American Beauty and Heather Gardner in American Pie and she reprised her role as Heather in American Pie 2 and American Reunion. She also appeared in The Rage, Carrie 2, Loser, Sugar & Spice, Spun, Trauma, Suvari is a model for Lancôme cosmetics and print ads for Lancôme Paris Adaptîve and has been featured in several fashion blogs and magazines such as Vogue. She is a supporter and activist for the African relief organization. Suvari was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the daughter of Candice, a nurse, and Ando Ivar Süvari and her mother is of half Greek descent and her father was Estonian. She began modeling as a preteen and soon appeared in a Rice-A-Roni commercial. The family later relocated to Charleston, South Carolina, where her brothers attended The Citadel, mena considered becoming an archaeologist, astronaut or doctor, when a modeling agency stopped by her all-girls school, Ashley Hall, to offer classes. By the time she started acting, she had been modeling for the New York-based Wilhelmina agency for five years, Suvari relocated to California, and attended Providence High School in Burbank, graduating in 1997. Suvari started her career as an actress through guest-appearances in television series such as Boy Meets World. She also appeared in a number of episodes of the show High Incident and she next appeared in the independent dramedy Slums of Beverly Hills, which was released in 1998. The film did not make an impression with audiences upon its theatrical premiere and it was on the set of this film that she met Natasha Lyonne, who would later join the cast of American Pie. Suvari found major critical and mainstream recognition later in 1999 with her roles in the teen sex comedy American Pie, in American Pie, she appeared with Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Chris Klein and Natasha Lyonne, portraying an innocent choir girl named Heather. The film was a success, grossing US$235 million worldwide. In American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and co-starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Benning and Thora Birch, the movie made US$356 million globally and received widespread critical acclaim, with Suvari attracting large attention for a particular bath scene with rose petals. It was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture, following her newfound recognition, Suvari reunited with Jason Biggs in the 2000 romantic comedy Loser appearing as his love interest. A lukewarm critical and commercial reception greeted the film, but The New York Times felt that Suvari was well matched with the handsome, theyre attractive without being offensively cute, and their characters manage to be genuinely nice without seeming bland or phony. In the same year, she headlined the satirical comedy American Virgin, the original working title of the film was Live Virgin, but changed to capitalize on Suvaris previous successes in American Pie and American Beauty
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Kate Winslet
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE, is an English actress and singer. Winslet is the recipient of an Academy Award, an AACTA Award, three BAFTA Awards, a BIFA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is the youngest person to receive six Academy Award nominations, with seven nominations in total, in addition, she has won awards from the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and European Film Academy, among others, and the Honorary César Award in 2012. Brought up in Berkshire, Winslet studied drama from childhood and began her career in British television in 1991 and she made her film debut in Heavenly Creatures, for which she received praise. She garnered recognition for her role in Sense and Sensibility before achieving global stardom with the epic romance Titanic. Winslets performances in Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Little Children, Revolutionary Road, The Dressmaker, in 2008, film critic David Edelstein described her as the best English-speaking film actress of her generation. Winslets greatest commercial successes since Titanic include the romantic comedy The Holiday, the animated film Flushed Away, in addition to acting, Winslet has narrated documentaries and childrens books. She was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 2000 for narrating Listen to the Storyteller and she has also provided her vocals to soundtracks of her films, including the single What If from Christmas Carol, The Movie. Divorced from two directors, Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet is currently married to businessman Ned Rocknroll. Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire, England to Sally Anne, a barmaid, and Roger John Winslet and she has two sisters, Beth and Anna, and one brother, Joss Winslet. Winslet began studying drama at the age of 11 at the Redroofs Theatre School, a independent school in Maidenhead, Berkshire. At the age of 12, Winslet appeared in an advertisement directed by filmmaker Tim Pope for Sugar Puffs cereal. Pope said her naturalism was there from the start, Winslet made her television debut with a co-starring role in the BBC childrens science fiction serial Dark Season. This role was followed by appearances in the made-for-TV film Anglo-Saxon Attitudes in 1992, the sitcom Get Back, in 1992, Winslet attended a casting call for Peter Jacksons Heavenly Creatures in London. Winslet auditioned for the role of Juliet Hulme, a teenager who assists in the murder of the mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker. The film included Winslets singing debut, and her a version of Sono Andati. The film was released to reviews in 1994 and won Jackson. Winslet was awarded the Empire Award and London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year for her performance, the Washington Post writer Desson Thomson commented, As Juliet, Winslet is a bright-eyed ball of fire, lighting up every scene she’s in
