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Wilson, North Carolina
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Wilson is a city in and the county seat of Wilson County, North Carolina, United States. Situated in the heart of eastern North Carolina, around 40 miles east of the city of Raleigh, it lies at the interchange of Interstate 95. Wilson had a population of 49,610 in 2012, according to the Census Bureau, Wilson is now ranked 18th in size among North Carolina’s 500-plus municipalities. The city has added more than 40 percent in population since 1990, primarily due to a construction of new subdivisions and this has attracted new retail and shopping construction, primarily in the northwestern parts of the city. The U. S. Census Bureau estimates that nearly 5,000 county residents were foreign-born, of those, nearly 3,000 people, or 62 percent, had entered the U. S. since 2000. Once widely known as The World’s Greatest Tobacco Market, Wilson enjoys a diverse economy today, with a mix of agriculture, manufacturing, commercial. Wilson is located at 35°43′52″N 77°55′25″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 23.4 square miles, of which,23.3 square miles of it is land and 0.2 square miles of it is water. Wilson is located at the intersection of Interstate 95 and US264, approximately 45 minutes east of Raleigh and it also is at the northern terminus of Interstate 795, which provides a route to Interstate 40 and the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina. The history of the city of Wilson dates back to a community formed around Toisnot Primitive Baptist Church. The community was originally called Toisnot, in 1836, the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad Co. began building a Wilmington-to-Weldon line. The railline reached the community in 1839, and by 1840 Toisnot had both north-and-south service and that led to the growth of the community. On January 29,1849, the North Carolina General Assembly chartered the Town of Wilson and it was named for Colonel Louis D. Wilson, U. S. Volunteers, who died of fever while on leave from the State senate during the Mexican-American War. Joshua Barnes, John W. Farmer, James D. Barnes, Dylan Dieterle, Jonathan D. Rountree, Wilson currently operates under a City Council-City Manager form of government. The City Council includes seven members who are elected by districts, the City Council makes policy and budget decisions, which are enacted by the city manager, whom they appoint, and the staff. C. Bruce Rose is the mayor, having served continuously since 1992. Prior to that, he was a city firefighter for 30 years, as of the census of 2000, there were 44,405 people,17,296 households, and 11,328 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,906.9 people per square mile, there were 18,660 housing units at an average density of 801.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 46. 67% White,47. 53% African American,0. 31% Native American,0. 58% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,3. 89% from other races, and 1. 01% from two or more races
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Free People
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Free People is an American bohemian apparel and lifestyle retail company that sells women’s clothing, accessories, shoes, intimates, and swimwear. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Free People is a part of Urban Outfitters, today Free People sells their line in 1,400 specialty stores worldwide. S. and Canada. In the early 1970s, Dick Hayne opened a store in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his first wife, Judy Wicks and his store attracted the young people who lived and shopped in the area. When his store’s popularity grew, he opened a second store, Urban Outfitters’ business began to grow rapidly. Dick’s wife, Meg, oversaw the development of Urban Outfitters’ private label division and this proved to be quite successful, in 1984 the wholesale line Free People was back in action. In the fall of 2002, the first Free People Boutique opened in Paramus, since the first boutique opened in Paramus, New Jersey, there are now boutiques all over the United States as well as Canada. Free People developed an app which allows users to shop and to upload their own looks and pictures wearing Free People clothing, in 2006, Free People partnered with Edward Mullen Studio to design an e-commerce strategy. Free People is a changing and evolving brand. Their goal is to promote creativity, travel, and neat style, along with serving as URBN’s chief creative officer, Margaret Hayne is also currently chief executive of Free People. 2004, The year of the birth of FreePeople, there are 124 stores dedicated to Free People. FP Wholesale Free People operates four showrooms located in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, on May 24,2016 Free People partnered with Girls Inc. this partnership has developed the brand more. It is a social campaign. The campaign supports over 140,000 innovative, confident, strong, Free People contributes by sending several women each month that they think best spread Girls Inc. across their social media channels, by giving a donation and sending them Free People apparel. Free People gives away cloth bags, whenever someone re-uses or does not accept the bag at check out Free People donates.25 cents to Girls Inc. The Chalkboard Mag Free People partners with The Chalkboard Mag for their Worldwide FP Lets Move event tour, in January 2017, Free People announced their third annual event tour. WebLinc Free People partnered with WebLinc when creating their multichannel app, the app has been dowloaded an estimated 130,000 times. In April 2016, the company was criticized for the advertisements of their new clothing line directed towards music festival attendees, the advertisements promoted Native American styled clothing on a Caucasian model, which garnered much negative attention on social media websites. In May 2015, the company was criticized for the dancer that they used to advertise their clothing, professional dancers were appalled at the advertisement
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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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Model (person)
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A model is a person with a role either to promote, display, or advertise commercial products or to serve as a visual aide for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Modelling is considered to be different from other types of public performance, although the difference between modelling and performing is not always clear, appearing in a film or a play is not generally considered to be modelling. Types of modelling include, fashion, glamour, fitness, bikini, fine art, body-part, Models are featured in a variety of media formats including, books, magazines, films, newspapers, internet and TV. Fashion models are featured in films, reality TV shows. Celebrities, including actors, singers, sports personalities and reality TV stars, modelling as a profession was first established in 1853 by Charles Frederick Worth, the father of haute couture, when he asked his wife, Marie Vernet Worth, to model the clothes he designed. The term house model was coined to describe this type of work, eventually, this became common practice for Parisian fashion houses. There were no standard physical measurement requirements for a model, with the development of fashion photography, the modelling profession expanded to photo modelling. Models remained fairly anonymous, and relatively poorly paid, until the late 1950s, one of the first well-known models was Lisa Fonssagrives, who was very popular in the 1930s. Fonssagrives appeared on over 200 Vogue covers, and her name recognition led to the importance of Vogue in shaping the careers of fashion models. In 1946, Ford Models was established by Eileen and Gerard Ford in New York, one of the most popular models during the 1940s was Jinx Falkenburg who was paid $25 per hour, a large sum at the time. During the 1940s and 1950s, Wilhelmina Cooper, Jean Patchett, Dovima, Dorian Leigh, Suzy Parker, Evelyn Tripp, Carmen DellOrefice, dorothea Church was among the first black models in the industry to gain notoriety in Paris. However, these models were unknown outside the fashion community, compared to todays models, the models of the 1950s were more voluptuous. Wilhelmina Coopers measurements were 38-24-36 whereas Chanel Imans measurements are 32-23-33, in the 1960s, the modelling world began to establish modelling agencies. Throughout Europe, secretarial services acted as models agents charging them weekly rates for their messages, for the most part, models were responsible for their own billing. In Germany, agents were not allowed to work for a percentage of a persons earnings, with the exception of a few models travelling to Paris or New York, travelling was relatively unheard of for a model. Most models only worked in one market due to different labor laws governing modelling in various countries, in the 1960s, Italy had many fashion houses and fashion magazines but was in dire need of models. Italian agencies would often coerce models to return to Italy without work visas by withholding their pay and they would also pay their models in cash, which models would have to hide from customs agents. It was not uncommon for models staying in such as La Louisiana in Paris or the Arena in Milan to have their hotel rooms raided by the police looking for their work visas
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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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Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2013
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The Victorias Secret Fashion Show is an annual fashion show sponsored by 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 featured performances by Fall Out Boy, A Great Big World, Neon Jungle, and Taylor Swift. The shoes used during this show were created by Nicholas Kirkwood. Victorias Secret Fashion Show, Vogue UK, the Top 20 Looks from the Victorias Secret Fashion Show, Harpers Bazaar. The 2013 Victorias Secret Fashion Show, GQ
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Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2014
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The Victorias Secret Fashion Show is an annual fashion show sponsored by 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, Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge, and Behati Prinsloo. The show featured performances by Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Hozier. For the first time, there were not one but two fantasy bras, the Dream Angels Fantasy Bras and they were worn by Alessandra Ambrosio and Adriana Lima and worth US$2,000,000 each
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Charlotte /ˈʃɑːrlət/ is the largest city in the state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Mecklenburg County and the second-largest city in the southeastern United States, just behind Jacksonville, Charlotte is the third-fastest growing major city in the United States. In 2014 the estimated population of Charlotte according to the U. S. Census Bureau was 809,958, the Charlotte metropolitan area ranks 22nd-largest in the U. S. and had a 2014 population of 2,380,314. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2014 U. S. Census population estimate of 2,537,990, residents of Charlotte are referred to as Charlotteans. It is listed as a global city by the Globalization. Charlotte Douglas International Airport is an international hub, and was ranked the 23rd-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2013. Charlotte has a subtropical climate. The city is located several miles east of the Catawba River and southeast of Lake Norman, Lake Wylie and Mountain Island Lake are two smaller man-made lakes located near the city. The Catawba Native Americans were the first to settle Mecklenburg County and were first recorded in European records around 1567, by 1759 half the Catawba tribe had been killed by smallpox. At the time of their largest population, Catawba people numbered 10,000, Mecklenburg County was initially part of Bath County of New Hanover Precinct, which became New Hanover County in 1729. The western portion of New Hanover split into Bladen County in 1734, Mecklenburg County formed from Anson County in 1762. Further apportionment was made in 1792, with Cabarrus County formed from Mecklenburg and these areas were all part of one of the original six judicial/military districts of North Carolina known as the Salisbury District. The area that is now Charlotte was settled by people of European descent around 1755, Thomas Polk, who later married Thomas Spratts daughter, built his house by the intersection of two Native American trading paths between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers. One path ran north–south and was part of the Great Wagon Road, within decades of Polks settling, the area grew to become Charlotte Town, incorporating in 1768. The crossroads, perched atop the Piedmont landscape, became the heart of Uptown Charlotte, in 1770, surveyors marked the streets in a grid pattern for future development. The east–west trading path became Trade Street, and the Great Wagon Road became Tryon Street, in honor of William Tryon, the intersection of Trade and Tryon—commonly known today as Trade & Tryon, or simply The Square—is more properly called Independence Square. While surveying the boundary between the Carolinas in 1772, William Moultrie stopped in Charlotte Town, whose five or six houses were very ordinary built of logs, local leaders came together in 1775 and signed the Mecklenburg Resolves, more popularly known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. While not a declaration of independence from British rule, it is among the first such declarations that eventually led to the American Revolution
