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Brussels
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Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the region of Flanders or Wallonia. The region has a population of 1.2 million and an area with a population of over 1.8 million. Brussels is the de facto capital of the European Union as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions, the secretariat of the Benelux and the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are also located in Brussels. Today, it is considered an Alpha global city, historically a Dutch-speaking city, Brussels has seen a language shift to French from the late 19th century onwards. Today, the majority language is French, and the Brussels-Capital Region is a bilingual enclave within the Flemish Region. All road signs, street names, and many advertisements and services are shown in both languages, Brussels is increasingly becoming multilingual with increasing numbers of migrants, expatriates and minority groups speaking their own languages. The most common theory of the origin of Brussels name is that it derives from the Old Dutch Broekzele or Broeksel, meaning marsh, Saint Vindicianus, the bishop of Cambrai made the first recorded reference to the place Brosella in 695 when it was still a hamlet. The origin of the settlement that was to become Brussels lies in Saint Gaugericus construction of a chapel on an island in the river Senne around 580. The official founding of Brussels is usually situated around 979, when Duke Charles of Lower Lotharingia transferred the relics of Saint Gudula from Moorsel to the Saint Gaugericus chapel, Charles would construct the first permanent fortification in the city, doing so on that same island. Lambert I of Leuven, Count of Leuven gained the County of Brussels around 1000 by marrying Charles daughter, as it grew to a population of around 30,000, the surrounding marshes were drained to allow for further expansion. The Counts of Leuven became Dukes of Brabant at about this time, in the 13th century, the city got its first walls. After the construction of the city walls in the early 13th century, to let the city expand, a second set of walls was erected between 1356 and 1383. Today, traces of it can still be seen, mostly because the small ring, Brabant had lost its independence, but Brussels became the Princely Capital of the prosperous Low Countries, and flourished. In 1516 Charles V, who had been heir of the Low Countries since 1506, was declared King of Spain in St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral in Brussels. Upon the death of his grandfather, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in 1519 and it was in the Palace complex at Coudenberg that Charles V abdicated in 1555. This impressive palace, famous all over Europe, had expanded since it had first become the seat of the Dukes of Brabant. In 1695, during the Nine Years War, King Louis XIV of France sent troops to bombard Brussels with artillery, together with the resulting fire, it was the most destructive event in the entire history of Brussels
Brussels
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A
collage with several views of Brussels, Top: View of the
Northern Quarter business district, 2nd left: Floral carpet event in the
Grand Place, 2nd right:
Brussels City Hall and
Mont des Arts area, 3rd:
Cinquantenaire Park, 4th left:
Manneken Pis, 4th middle:
St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral, 4th right:
Congress Column, Bottom:
Royal Palace of Brussels
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Charles of Lorraine founded what would become Brussels c. 979
Brussels
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Grand Place after
the 1695 bombardment by the French army
Brussels
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Episode of the
Belgian Revolution of 1830,
Wappers (1834)
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Belgium
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Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a sovereign state in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and the North Sea. It is a small, densely populated country which covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres and has a population of about 11 million people. Additionally, there is a group of German-speakers who live in the East Cantons located around the High Fens area. Historically, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were known as the Low Countries, the region was called Belgica in Latin, after the Roman province of Gallia Belgica. From the end of the Middle Ages until the 17th century, today, Belgium is a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. It is divided into three regions and three communities, that exist next to each other and its two largest regions are the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia. The Brussels-Capital Region is a bilingual enclave within the Flemish Region. A German-speaking Community exists in eastern Wallonia, Belgiums linguistic diversity and related political conflicts are reflected in its political history and complex system of governance, made up of six different governments. Upon its independence, declared in 1830, Belgium participated in the Industrial Revolution and, during the course of the 20th century, possessed a number of colonies in Africa. This continuing antagonism has led to several far-reaching reforms, resulting in a transition from a unitary to a federal arrangement during the period from 1970 to 1993. Belgium is also a member of the Eurozone, NATO, OECD and WTO. Its capital, Brussels, hosts several of the EUs official seats as well as the headquarters of major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium is also a part of the Schengen Area, Belgium is a developed country, with an advanced high-income economy and is categorized as very high in the Human Development Index. A gradual immigration by Germanic Frankish tribes during the 5th century brought the area under the rule of the Merovingian kings, a gradual shift of power during the 8th century led the kingdom of the Franks to evolve into the Carolingian Empire. Many of these fiefdoms were united in the Burgundian Netherlands of the 14th and 15th centuries, the Eighty Years War divided the Low Countries into the northern United Provinces and the Southern Netherlands. The latter were ruled successively by the Spanish and the Austrian Habsburgs and this was the theatre of most Franco-Spanish and Franco-Austrian wars during the 17th and 18th centuries. The reunification of the Low Countries as the United Kingdom of the Netherlands occurred at the dissolution of the First French Empire in 1815, although the franchise was initially restricted, universal suffrage for men was introduced after the general strike of 1893 and for women in 1949. The main political parties of the 19th century were the Catholic Party, French was originally the single official language adopted by the nobility and the bourgeoisie
Belgium
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Charlemagne and
Charles V
Belgium
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Flaga
Belgium
Belgium
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Episode of the
Belgian Revolution of 1830 (1834), by
Egide Charles Gustave Wappers
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New York City, New York
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
New York City, New York
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
New York City, New York
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
New York City, New York
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
New York City, New York
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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Model (people)
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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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Model Posing on a Typical Studio Shooting Set
Model (people)
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Fashion models on the
runway in 2008
Model (people)
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Jean Shrimpton in 1965
Model (people)
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Wilhelmina Cooper, founder of her agency
Wilhelmina Models, photographed by
Edgar de Evia in 1965.
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Northern Irish
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Northern Ireland is a constituent unit of the United Kingdom in the north-east of Ireland. It is variously described as a country, province, region, or part of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the total population. Northern Ireland was created in 1921, when Ireland was partitioned between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland by an act of the British parliament, Northern Ireland has historically been the most industrialised region of Ireland. After declining as a result of the political and social turmoil of the Troubles, its economy has grown significantly since the late 1990s. Unemployment in Northern Ireland peaked at 17. 2% in 1986, dropping to 6. 1% for June–August 2014,58. 2% of those unemployed had been unemployed for over a year. Prominent artists and sports persons from Northern Ireland include Van Morrison, Rory McIlroy, Joey Dunlop, Wayne McCullough, some people from Northern Ireland prefer to identify as Irish while others prefer to identify as British. Cultural links between Northern Ireland, the rest of Ireland, and the rest of the UK are complex, in many sports, the island of Ireland fields a single team, a notable exception being association football. Northern Ireland competes separately at the Commonwealth Games, and people from Northern Ireland may compete for either Great Britain or Ireland at the Olympic Games. The region that is now Northern Ireland was the bedrock of the Irish war of resistance against English programmes of colonialism in the late 16th century, the English-controlled Kingdom of Ireland had been declared by the English king Henry VIII in 1542, but Irish resistance made English control fragmentary. Victories by English forces in war and further Protestant victories in the Williamite War in Ireland toward the close of the 17th century solidified Anglican rule in Ireland. In Northern Ireland, the victories of the Siege of Derry and their intention was to materially disadvantage the Catholic community and, to a lesser extent, the Presbyterian community. In the context of open institutional discrimination, the 18th century saw secret, militant societies develop in communities in the region and act on sectarian tensions in violent attacks. Following this, in an attempt to quell sectarianism and force the removal of discriminatory laws, the new state, formed in 1801, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was governed from a single government and parliament based in London. Between 1717 and 1775 some 250,000 people from Ulster emigrated to the British North American colonies and it is estimated that there are more than 27 million Scotch-Irish Americans now living in the US. By the close of the century, autonomy for Ireland within the United Kingdom, in 1912, after decades of obstruction from the House of Lords, Home Rule became a near-certainty. A clash between the House of Commons and House of Lords over a controversial budget produced the Parliament Act 1911, which enabled the veto of the Lords to be overturned. The House of Lords veto had been the unionists main guarantee that Home Rule would not be enacted, in 1914, they smuggled thousands of rifles and rounds of ammunition from Imperial Germany for use by the Ulster Volunteers, a paramilitary organisation opposed to the implementation of Home Rule
Northern Irish
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Scrabo Tower,
County Down
Northern Irish
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Location of Northern Ireland (dark green) – in
Europe (green & dark grey) – in the
United Kingdom (green)
Northern Irish
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Cannon on
Derry 's
city walls
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Signing of the
Ulster Covenant in 1912 in opposition to Home Rule
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Canberra
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Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of 381,488, it is Australias largest inland city, the city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory,280 km south-west of Sydney, and 660 km north-east of Melbourne. A resident of Canberra is known as a Canberran, the site of Canberra was selected for the location of the nations capital in 1908 as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne, Australias two largest cities. It is unusual among Australian cities, being a planned city outside of any state, similar to Washington, D. C. in the United States. Following an international contest for the design, a blueprint by American architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was selected. The Griffins plan featured geometric motifs such as circles, hexagons and triangles, the citys design was influenced by the garden city movement and incorporates significant areas of natural vegetation that have earned Canberra the title of the bush capital. Although the Australian Capital Territory is now self-governing, the Commonwealth Government retains some influence through the National Capital Authority, the Australian Armys officer corps is trained at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy is also located in the capital. The ACT is independent of any state to prevent any one state from gaining an advantage by hosting the seat of Commonwealth power, the ACT has voting representation in the Commonwealth Parliament, and has its own independent Legislative Assembly and government, similar to the states. Compared to the averages, the unemployment rate is lower. Property prices are high, in part due to comparatively restrictive development regulations. An 1830s map of the region by Major Mitchell indeed does mark the Sullivans Creek floodplain between two mountains as Nganbra. Nganbra or Nganbira could readily have been anglicised to the name Canberry, survey plans of the district dated 1837 refer to the area as the Canberry Plain. Although popularly pronounced /ˈkænbərə/ or /ˈkænbɛrə/, the pronunciation at its official naming in 1913 was /ˈkæn. brə/. Before white settlement, the area in which Canberra would eventually be constructed was seasonally inhabited by Indigenous Australians, archaeological evidence of settlement in the region includes inhabited rock shelters, rock paintings and engravings, burial places, camps and quarry sites, and stone tools and arrangements. Artefacts suggests early human activity occurred at some point in the area 21,000 years previously, European exploration and settlement started in the Canberra area as early as the 1820s. There were four expeditions between 1820 and 1824, white settlement of the area probably dates from 1823, when a homestead or station was built on what is now the Acton peninsula by stockmen employed by Joshua John Moore. He formally applied to purchase the site on 16 December 1826, on 30 April 1827, Moore was told by letter that he could retain possession of 1,000 acres at Canberry. The European population in the Canberra area continued to grow throughout the 19th century
Canberra
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Canberra, with the old and new
Parliament House in the centre, viewed from
Mount Ainslie
Canberra
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Blundells Cottage, built around 1860, is one of the few remaining buildings built by the first settlers of Canberra.
Canberra
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The opening of
Parliament House in May 1927.
Canberra
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Two of Canberra's best-known landmarks,
Parliament House and
Old Parliament House (foreground). Commonwealth Place runs alongside the lake and includes the International Flag Display.
Questacon is on the right.
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Wellington, New Zealand
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Wellington is the capital and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with 405,000 residents. It is at the tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. Wellington is the population centre of the southern North Island and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the worlds windiest city, with a wind speed of over 26 km/h. Situated near the centre of the country, Wellington was well placed for trade. In 1839 it was chosen as the first major planned settlement for British immigrants coming to New Zealand, the settlement was named in honour of the Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo. As the nations capital since 1865, the New Zealand Government and Parliament, Supreme Court, despite being much smaller than Auckland, Wellington is also referred to as New Zealands cultural capital. The city is home to the National Archives, the National Library, architectural sights include the Government Building—one of the largest wooden buildings in the world—as well as the iconic Beehive. Wellington plays host to artistic and cultural organisations, including the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. It has an urban culture, with many cafés, restaurants. One of the worlds most liveable cities, the 2014 Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Wellington 12th in the world, Wellingtons economy is primarily service-based, with an emphasis on finance, business services, and government. It is the centre of New Zealands film and special effects industries, Wellington ranks as one of New Zealands chief seaports and serves both domestic and international shipping. The city is served by Wellington International Airport, the third busiest airport in the country, Wellingtons transport network includes train and bus lines which reach as far as the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa, and ferries connect the city to the South Island. Wellington takes its name from Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo, his title comes from the town of Wellington in the English county of Somerset. One of the founders of the settlement, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, reported that the settlers took up the views of the directors with great cordiality, in Māori, Wellington has three names. In New Zealand Sign Language, the name is signed by raising the index, middle and ring fingers of one hand, palm forward, to form a W, and shaking it slightly from side to side twice. The citys location close to the mouth of the narrow Cook Strait leads to its vulnerability to strong gales, legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the district in about the 10th century. The earliest date with hard evidence for Maori living in New Zealand is about 1280, European settlement began with the arrival of an advance party of the New Zealand Company on the ship Tory on 20 September 1839, followed by 150 settlers on the Aurora on 22 January 1840
Wellington, New Zealand
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Wellington Harbour and city viewed from
Mount Victoria at twilight
Wellington, New Zealand
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"The Old Shebang" on
Cuba Street, c. 1883
Wellington, New Zealand
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The Old High Court, since restored as the
Supreme Court of New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand
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Old Government Buildings
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Queen Margaret College, Wellington
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Queen Margaret College is Wellington’s leading, independent girls’ school, providing education for students from Year 1 to 13 with a co-educational Pre-School. The curriculum fits closely with the philosophy and international vision of the College. The College has over 100 sports teams participating in a range of sports to suit every student. There are options for social and competitive levels, students can join a number of musical groups and participate in the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival, debating, theatre-sports and the annual joint musical production with Scots College. Queen Margaret College is located in a Category 2 historical building constructed in 1876, the Tower Block is the heart of the school and symbolises the College’s strength and resilience. Over the past 96 years the College has cared for and restored this building, the Hobson Complex was opened in 2013 which includes a purpose built gym and fitness room. The school also has an auditorium for music and performances, a new purpose-built co-educational Pre-School was opened in 2015. Queen Margaret College was founded on its present site in Hobson Street, Thorndon in 1919 as an independent girls school by the Hon John Aitken and The Very Rev. Dr. James Gibb. The buldings had been used by Scots College from 1916 to 1918, The Schools namesake is Queen Margaret and he features in Macbeth, being one of Duncans sons, who flees after his father was murdered. Students are organised into five houses - Berwick, Braemar, Glamis, Lochleven and they are named after castles in Scotland, a nod towards the Scottish heritage upon which the school was built. The College also has links with the body of Margaret Schools. The Queen Margaret College Tower Building is registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category II structure, the Queen Margaret College building was originally designed and erected for T. C. Williams and his wife Anne Beetham as their family homestead in Hobson St. Thorndon, Williams was the son of Henry Williams who translated the Treaty of Waitangi into Māori. D. Gambrill Official website School history
Queen Margaret College, Wellington
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The Queen Margaret College Tower Building
Queen Margaret College, Wellington
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Queen Margaret College
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University of Otago
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The University of Otago is a public collegiate university located in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. It scores highly for average research quality, and in 2006 was second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A-rated academic researchers it employs. The university ranks highly in national league table, in the past it has topped the New Zealand Performance Based Research Fund evaluation, the university was created by a committee, including Thomas Burns, and officially established by an ordinance of the Otago Provincial Council in 1869. The university accepted its first students in July 1871, making it the oldest university in New Zealand, between 1874 and 1961 the University of Otago was a part of the federal University of New Zealand, and issued degrees in its name. Otago is known for its lively student life, particularly its flatting, Otago students have a long standing tradition of naming their flats. The nickname Scarfie comes from the habit of wearing a scarf during cold southern winters, the universitys graduation song, Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus, acknowledges students will continue to live up to the challenge if not always in the way intended. The Otago Associations plan for the European settlement of southern New Zealand, conceived under the principles of Edward Gibbon Wakefield in the 1840s, envisaged a university. Dunedin leaders Thomas Burns and James Macandrew urged the Otago Provincial Council during the 1860s to set aside a land endowment for an institute of higher education. An ordinance of the established the university in 1869, giving it 100,000 acres of land. Burns was named Chancellor but he did not live to see the university open on 5 July 1871, the university conferred just one degree, to Alexander Watt Williamson, before becoming an affiliate college of the federal University of New Zealand in 1874. With the dissolution of the University of New Zealand in 1961 and the passage of the University of Otago Amendment Act 1961, originally operating from William Masons Post Office building on Princes Street, it relocated to Maxwell Burys Clocktower and Geology buildings in 1878 and 1879. This evolved into the Clocktower complex, a group of Gothic revival buildings at the heart of the campus. These buildings were inspired by then-new main building at Glasgow University in Scotland, Otago was the first university in Australasia to permit women to take a law degree. Ethel Benjamin graduated LLB in 1897, later that year she became the first woman in the British Empire to appear as counsel in court. Professor Robert Jack made the first radio broadcast in New Zealand from the department on 17 November 1921. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited the university library with Duke of Edinburgh on 18 March 1970 and this was the first time the royals completed informal “walkabouts” to meet the public, and it was the first visit of Prince Charles and Princess Anne to this country. Because it had a range of courses, Otago attracted more students from outside its provincial district. This led to the growth of colleges and informal accommodation in north Dunedin around the faculty buildings, Otago now has the most substantial residential campus of any university in New Zealand or Australia, although this is not without its problems
University of Otago
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The
University clock tower, looking east.
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University of Otago
University of Otago
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Aerial view of the University of Otago
University of Otago
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The University grounds in winter
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Kristen Stewart
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Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an American actress and model. Born in Los Angeles to parents working in business, Stewart began her acting career in 1997 with uncredited roles. She gained notice in 2002 for playing Jodie Fosters daughter in the thriller Panic Room and she went on to star in Speak, Catch That Kid, Zathura, and Into The Wild, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received widespread recognition in 2008 for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series, Stewart has appeared in a wide variety of films, including Adventureland, The Runaways, Snow White and the Huntsman, On the Road, Camp X-Ray, Still Alice and Equals. She won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2010 and was awarded the Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 2011 for Welcome to the Rileys. She starred in Personal Shopper, written for her by director Olivier Assayras, Stewart was listed as the highest-earning female actress in the Vanity Fair Hollywood Top Earners List of 2010, with an estimated earning of $28.5 million. In 2011, she was named number one on Forbes list of Hollywoods Best Actors for the Buck, Forbes also named her as the highest paid actress in 2012, with total earnings of $34.5 million. She is the face of Chanel and Balenciaga fashion brands, Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. Both of her parents work in the entertainment industry and her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox and currently works on Comedy Central show @midnight. Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is originally from Maroochydore, Queensland and she is a script supervisor and has also directed a film, the 2012 prison drama K-11. She has a brother, Cameron B. Stewart, and two adopted brothers, Dana and Taylor, Stewart attended local schools until the seventh grade. As she became involved in acting, she continued her education by correspondence until completing high school. As she grew up with a family who worked behind the camera, Stewart thought she would become a screenwriter/director and she recalled, I never wanted to be the center of attention — I wasnt that I want to be famous, I want to be an actor kid. I never sought out acting, but I always practiced my autograph because I love pens, Id write my name on everything. She began acting at 8, after an agent saw her perform in her elementary schools Christmas play, after auditioning for a year, Stewart gained her first role with a small, nonspeaking part in the Disney Channel TV-movie The Thirteenth Year. Her next film was The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, where she played the ring toss girl and she also appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects, as the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother. Stewart also played a tomboy, diabetic daughter of a mother in the film Panic Room
Kristen Stewart
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Stewart at the
2014 Cannes Film Festival
Kristen Stewart
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Stewart at the 2007 Breakthrough Awards of Hollywood Life Magazine.
Kristen Stewart
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Stewart at the Australian premiere of
Snow White and the Huntsman in June 2012
Kristen Stewart
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Stewart at the UK premiere of
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 in November 2012
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Oyster (magazine)
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Oyster is an international fashion, beauty, music and pop-culture title established in Australia in 1994 by Monica Nakata and Jonathan Morris. The magazine features exclusive international fashion editorial, interviews, and extensive music, Oyster showcases the work of leading photographers and young up-and-coming talent from around the world, and is renowned for its avant-garde approach to style. From 1994–2012 Oyster was published bi-monthly and it was announced in 2015 that the frequency would change from bi-annual to quarterly print publication. Oystermag. com was established in 2006 and offers extended content from the magazine, online fashion and beauty shoots, interviews, oystermag. com - Oysters official website Oystervision
Oyster (magazine)
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April/May 2011 issue of Oyster
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Daily Mirror
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The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903. It is owned by parent company Trinity Mirror, from 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply The Mirror. It had a daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016. Its Sunday sister paper is the Sunday Mirror, originally pitched to the middle class reader, it was transformed into a working-class newspaper after 1934, in order to reach a large, lowbrow audience. The Mirror has had a number of owners and it was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, who sold it to his brother Harold Harmsworth in 1913. In 1963 a restructuring of the interests of the Harmsworth family led to the Mirror becoming a part of International Publishing Corporation. The Mirror was owned by Robert Maxwell between 1984 and 1991, the paper went through a protracted period of crisis after his death before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity in 1999 to form Trinity Mirror. The paper has supported the Labour Party since the 1945 general election. The Daily Mirror was launched on 2 November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth as a newspaper for women, hence the name, he said, I intend it to be really a mirror of feminine life as well on its grave as on its lighter sides. To be entertaining without being frivolous, and serious without being dull and it was not an immediate success and in 1904 Harmsworth decided to turn it into a pictorial newspaper with a broader focus. Harmsworth appointed Hamilton Fyfe as editor and all of the female journalists were fired. The masthead was changed to The Daily Illustrated Mirror, which ran from 26 January to 27 April 1904, when it reverted to The Daily Mirror. The first issue of the paper did not have advertisements on the front page as previously. Two days later, the price was dropped to one halfpenny and to the masthead was added, circulation grew to 466,000 making it the second-largest morning newspaper. Alfred Harmsworth sold the newspaper to his brother Harold Harmsworth in 1913, in 1917, the price was increased to one penny. Circulation continued to grow, in 1919, some issues more than a million copies a day. Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, the Mirror was the first British paper to adopt the appearance of the New York tabloids. By 1939, the publication was selling 1.4 million copies a day, in 1937, Hugh McClelland introduced his wild Western comic strip Beelzebub Jones in the Daily Mirror
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Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe), founder of the Daily Mirror
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Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
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Front page of the Mirror 24 June 1996, with headline "ACHTUNG! SURRENDER For you Fritz, ze Euro 96 Championship is over", and accompanying contribution from the editor, "Mirror declares football war on Germany"
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Vogue (magazine)
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Vogue is an American fashion and lifestyle magazine made up of many components including fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway. Vogue began as a newspaper in 1892 in the United States. The British Vogue was the first international edition launched in 1916, Turnures intention was to create a publication that celebrated the ceremonial side of life, one that attracts the sage as well as debutante, men of affairs as well as the belle. From its inception, the magazine targeted the new New York upper class, the magazine at this time was primarily concerned with fashion, with coverage of sports and social affairs included for its male readership. Despite the magazines content, it very slowly during this period. Condé Montrose Nast purchased Vogue in 1905 one year before Turnures death and he changed it to a bi-weekly magazine and started Vogue overseas in the 1910s. Under Nast, the magazine shifted its focus to women. The magazines number of publications and profit increased dramatically under Nasts management, by 1911, the Vogue brand had garnered a reputation that it continues to maintain, targeting an elite audience and expanding into the coverage of weddings. According to Condé Naste Russia, after the First World War made deliveries in the Old World impossible, the decision to print in England proved to be successful causing Nast to release the first issue of French Vogue in 1920. The magazines number of subscriptions surged during the Great Depression, during this time, noted critic and former Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield served as its editor, having been moved over from Vanity Fair by publisher Condé Nast. In July of 1932, American Vogue placed its first color photograph on the cover of the magazine, the photograph was taken by photographer Edward Steichen and portrays a woman swimmer holding a beach ball in the air. Nast was responsible for introducing color printing and the two-page spread and he greatly impacted the magazine and turned it into a successful business and the womens magazine we recognize today and greatly increased the sales volumes until his death in 1942. Toward this end, Vogue extended coverage to include East Village boutiques such as Limbo on St, marks Place, as well as including features of downtown personalities such as Andy Warhols Superstar Jane Holzers favorite haunts. Vogue also continued making household names out of models, a practice continued with Suzy Parker, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton, Veruschka, Marisa Berenson, Penelope Tree. In 1973, Vogue became a monthly publication, under editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella, the magazine underwent extensive editorial and stylistic changes to respond to changes in the lifestyles of its target audience. Mirabella states that she was chosen to change Vogue because women werent interested in reading about or buying clothes that served no purpose in their changing lives and she was selected to make the magazine appeal to the the free, working, liberated woman of the seventies. She changed the magazine by adding text with interviews, arts coverage, when that type of stylihtic ceange f ell out of favor in the 1980s, Mirabella was brutally fired. Her take on it, For a magazine devoted to style, in July of 1988, after Vogue had began to lose ground to a three-year-old upstart Elle, Anna Wintour was named editor-in-chief
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The January 2010 issue of Vogue USA, featuring
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Cover of the May 1917 issue. (American Vogue)
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Models
Toni Garrn and brother Niklas Garrn wearing
Google Glass during the 2013 September issue fashion photo shoot in
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Vogue Brasil/Brazil cover with
Madonna photographed by
Steven Klein; Vogue France/Paris cover with
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Julianne Moore,
Gwyneth Paltrow,
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InStyle
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InStyle is a monthly women’s fashion magazine published in the United States by Time Inc. Along with advertising, the magazine articles about beauty, fashion, home, entertaining, charitable endeavors. Its editor is Laura Brown, and its publisher is Connie Anne Phillips, after originating in the United States, InStyle has expanded its brand and as of 2012 is distributed as international editions in 17 other countries. It was one of the first magazines of its type to have a musical artist or actor as the cover model. The magazine features celebrities who open their homes to be featured, in 2016, former executive editor of U. S. Harpers Bazaar Laura Brown was announced as the new Editor-in-Chief, taking over for Ariel Foxman, who had been managing editor since 2009. Browns first issue was December 2016, official website Theodora & Callum Interview with Ariel Foxman American InStyle – magazine profile at Fashion Model Directory
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Old logo
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Vogue UK
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The British edition of the fashion magazine Vogue has been published since autumn 1916. Its current editor stated that, “Vogue’s power is universally acknowledged, it’s the place everybody wants to be if they want to be in the world of fashion and 85% of the magazine’s readers agree that “Vogue is the Fashion Bible”. The magazine is considered to be one that links fashion to high society and class, teaching its readers how to ‘assume a distinctively chic, as a branch-off of American Vogue, British Vogue is a magazine whose success is based upon its advertising rather than its sales revenue. In 2007, it ran 2,020 pages of advertising at an average of £16,000 a page and it is deemed to be more commercial than other editions of Vogue. British Vogue is the most profitable British magazine as well as the most profitable edition of Vogue besides the US, during the First World War, Condé Nast, Vogue’s publisher, had to deal with restrictions on overseas shipping as well as paper shortages in America. The British edition of Vogue was the answer to this problem, under the London editions first editor, Elspeth Champcommunal, the magazine was essentially the same as the American edition, except for its British English spellings. However, Champcommunal thought it important that Vogue be more than a fashion magazine and it featured articles on ‘society and sporting news… Health and beauty advice… travelogues… and editorials’, making it a skillfully mixed cocktail. Champcommunal held her position until 1922. There were also features from noted English writers such as Virginia Woolf. Due to Todds changes, the magazine lost much of its audience, British Vogue is not believed to have really taken off until after its third editor, Alison Settle, was appointed in 1926. Under Audrey Withers, the magazine took a literary direction. British Vogue’s current editor-in-chief is Alexandra Shulman, who took the reins in 1992, during her time as editor, the magazine has drawn more than a million readers. Shulman is especially known for developing collector’s issues of British Vogue, such as the ‘Gold Millennium Issue’ where celebrities, Shulman is also praised for her use of up and coming photographers like Mario Testino. The editor has also known for her attempt to change the face of fashion. She has pushed designers to stop using size-zero models, Shulman stated that super-skinny models are no longer acceptable, receiving positive notes from women all over the world. Today, British Vogue has become quite modernised, on the magazine’s website there are more than 25 fashion blogs on beauty, fashion, and culture. You can also find VogueTV which features recent fashion videos from catwalks to interviews with models, though the magazine doesn’t face as much criticism as American Vogue, the UK edition does have its moments. Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman joined the debate, making a statement to the Daily Mail that she doesnt think fashion is institutionally racist in the slightest
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Kate Moss on the March 2008 cover of Vogue UK
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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Lily Aldridge
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Lily Maud Aldridge is an American-British model. She is a Victorias Secret Angel and a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model, appearing as a rookie alongside Chrissy Teigen, Aldridge was born at Saint Josephs Hospital in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in a fashion-oriented family. She is the daughter of English artist Alan Aldridge and Playboy Playmate of the month Laura Lyons, Aldridge started modelling at the age of 16, for Abercrombie & Fitch. Her advertising campaigns include Rocawear, Arden B, Rag and Bone, Shiatzy Chen, Bobbi Brown, Smashbox Cosmetics, GAP, Tommy Hilfiger, Coach, JCrew, Charles David, Levis, J Brand, Accessorize. She was also featured in the spring 2011 advertising campaign for clothing company Rag & bone and she was named the face of clothing company XOXO and the skincare company Proactiv in 2014. With Chanel Iman, she was the face of the Born Free Africa campaign for online retailer Shopbop, at the age of 17, Aldridge appeared on the cover of the August 2003 Spanish Vogue. She has appeared in editorials for American, French, British, Spanish, German, and Mexican Vogue, American, Australian, and Korean Elle, Harpers Bazaar, LOVE, W, V, Glamour, and Marie Claire. Aldridge made her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue debut in 2014, as a covermodel alongside Chrissy Tiegen and she has been the face of fashion label Velvet Tees since 2004. In 2013, Aldridge released her own clothing line with Velvet Tees called Lily Aldridge for Velvet, in 2009, Aldridge walked in her first Victorias Secret Fashion Show. In 2010 she became a Victorias Secret Angel and walked her second Victorias Secret Fashion Show and she has also walked the 2009,2010,2011,2012,2013 and 2014 fashion shows. On November 2,2015 Victorias Secret announced that Aldridge would be wearing the Fireworks Fantasy Bra, the bra was made by Mouawad and it has an estimated value of $2 million. The lingerie show was held on December 8,2015 in New York, in January 2011, Aldridge appeared on the cover of the February issue of British GQ with Lindsay Ellingson, Erin Heatherton, and Candice Swanepoel. In the same month, she appeared in an editorial for V Magazine with fellow angels Heatherton, in October 2014, Aldridge appeared in British Vogue with fellow Victorias Secret models Adriana Lima, Candice Swanepoel, Lais Ribeiro and Elsa Hosk. Aldridge has appeared in music videos. In the year 2000, she made a cameo among Eminem, Snoop Dog, Dr. Dre, in 2015, Aldridge appeared in the music video for Bad Blood by Taylor Swift, portraying an assassin called Frostbyte. Aldridge also appeared in two Kings of Leon videos, Use Somebody and Temple, on September 20,2010, Us Magazine reported that Aldridge was engaged to Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill. They met in 2007 at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, the couple married on May 12,2011, at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California. Aldridge gave birth to their daughter, Dixie Pearl Followill, on June 21,2012, in Nashville, Lily Aldridge at the Fashion Model Directory Lily Aldridge at The Fashion Styles
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Aldridge in 2014
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Josephine Skriver
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Josephine Skriver is a Danish fashion model. Skriver was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark and her mother is an IT analyst and her father is a marine biologist. Her parents are gay and Skriver and her younger brother, Oliver, were conceived through IVF. At the age of 15, Skriver was discovered and approached about her modeling potential while on a trip to New York with her soccer team, shortly thereafter, she was signed by Unique Models, an international modeling agency based in Copenhagen. She was consequently approached by agencies outside of Denmark. After finishing school, she began pursuing a career in 2011. Skrivers debut season was Fall/Winter 2011, during which she opened for Alberta Ferretti, Skriver has appeared in catalogs and ads for Victorias Secret and walked in the Victorias Secret Fashion Show every consecutive year since 2013. In February 2016, it was announced that Skriver was officially one of the brands contracted Angels, Skriver has on numerous occasions spoken candidly about LGBT rights and openly disussed her own upbringing with both parents being members of the LGBT community. In 2015, Skriver was made a celebrity ambassador for the Family Equality Council and its Outspoken Generation Program and they modeled together in a fashion spread for Elle Italia in July 2014. Josephine Skriver at the Fashion Model Directory Josephine Skriver, Josephine Skriver on Facebook Josephine Skriver on Twitter Josephine Skriver on Instagram
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Taylor Marie Hill
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Taylor Marie Hill is an American fashion model and current Victorias Secret Angel since 2015. In a poll conducted by Video-sharing social media network Buzznet Hill was ranked third among the Top 30 Most Beautiful Women of the World 2017, Hill was born in Palatine, Illinois and raised in Arvada, Colorado. Beginning at an age, Hill was a gymnast, before becoming a model. She graduated from Pomona High School in Arvada, Colorado, Taylor Marie Hill was discovered when she was 14, in a barn in Granby, Colorado by Jim Jordan, an agent who is also a photographer. In 2013, she was featured on Intimissimis catalog and she has been in print campaigns for Forever 21. In 2014 she modeled for H&M and walked the Victorias Secret Fashion Show and that year she became one of the faces of Rosa Cha with Erin Heatherton, Frida Gustavsson and Barbara Palvin. She was voted 2015s most promising model by Couturesques readers, in 2015, she hosted an event for Victorias Secret PINK. That same year, she became a Victorias Secret Angel, in August 2015, she won Model of the Year in social media at Fashion Media Awards. In 2016, she played a model in the film The Neon Demon And made her debut at No.17 on Forbes The Worlds Top-Earning Models list, in July 2016, she was named as the new face of Lancôme. She has also walked the runway for Versace,3, television Taylor Hill at the Fashion Model Directory models. com Taylor Hill at the Internet Movie Database
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Elsa Hosk
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She modeled for Victorias Secret, appearing in the brands annual fashion show in 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015 and 2016. She has also appeared in many of the campaigns, especially for the sub-division PINK In 2015. She has also played basketball in Sweden. She did some modeling in high school but decided to concentrate on her studies instead. After graduating, she decided to pursue a career in the Swedish womens basketball league, after playing professional basketball for two years, she began receiving many job offers and soon moved to New York City to begin modeling full-time. She is ranked 15th on the Top Sexiest Models list by models. com and she opened the Victorias secret show in 2016. Hosk is the daughter of Swedish father Pål and Finnish mother Marja and her cousin, Alice Herbst, is also a model. Herbst won the competition of Swedens Next Top Model in 2012. Hosk has worked to support the organization, FAIR Girls. She became interested in the issue after seeing the movie The Whistleblower, Elsa Hosk at the Fashion Model Directory Elsa Hosk at the Internet Movie Database
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Martha Hunt
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Martha Seifert Hunt is an American fashion model, who walked the Victorias Secret Fashion Show in 2013,2014, and 2015. Hunt has been a Victorias Secret Angel since 2015 and she is also a spokesmodel for Free People. Hunt was discovered by a photographer in Charlotte, North Carolina and she moved there and signed with IMG Models. Her first runway work was in 2007, at Paris Fashion Week, in 2009, she was on the cover of Vogue China and Harpers Bazaar, GQ, Revue des Modes, V, Glamour Germany, and Muse. She has walked for Tracy Reese, J. Mendel, Wayne, and Rebecca Taylor. In 2010 and 2011, she was featured in Velour, Marie Claire Italia, Vogue Russia, Harpers Bazaar, and Allure, as well as advertisements for BCBG Max Azria, Y-3, Hugo Boss, and Via Spiga. In 2013, she was featured in commercials for Miu Miu, Santa Lolla, Max&Co, Express, Ralph Lauren, Prada, Rag & Bone and she also posed for many magazines including Wonderland, V, Harpers Bazaar, Vogue,25, Numéro, and Elle Australia. Since 2013 she has represented the brand Free People, which has featured her in several commercials, in 2014, she posed for Rebecca Minkoff and for the magazines Marie Claire Italy, Glamour Germany, Stonefox, and Lui. She walked for Tome, Jason Wu, Cushnie et Ochs, Hervé Léger, Carolina Herrera, Polo Ralph Lauren and she did an entry about the Coachella Music Festival in Vanity Fair UK. She was featured in Victorias Secrets catalogue in early 2013 and walked her first Victorias Secret Fashion Show in 2013, in 2015, she was part of the first Victorias Secret Swim Special and became an Angel. Hunt has a diagnosis of Scoliosis, speaking of her surgical scars, Hunt says, Scars are uniquely beautiful, and they tell a triumphant story about you. I have a one down my back, and one on my lower right abdomen. Martha Hunt at the Fashion Model Directory Martha Hunt
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Adriana Lima
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Lima is currently ranked by Models. com as one of the New Supers in the fashion industry. Since 2014, Lima has been the worlds second highest-paid model, in 2012, she came in 4th on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $7.3 million in one year. In 2013, she came in 3rd place and in 2014 she came in 2nd place with earnings of $8 million, in 2015, she came in 2nd place with earnings of $9 million. In 2016, she kept the 2nd place with earnings of $10.5 million, Lima is the current brand ambassador for the Barcelona-based clothing brand Desigual, and for the Beachwear collection of Italian brand Calzedonia. Lima was born in June 12,1981 in Salvador, Brazil, the surname Lima is of Portuguese origin. Many sources state that Francesca is her name, but Lima herself denied this in an interview to W Radio Colombia in 2010. Her parents are Nelson Torres and Maria das Graças Lima, a social worker and her father left the family when she was six months old, and Lima was raised only by her mother. About her ethnicity, Lima identifies herself as Afro-Brazilian and stated that she is of Indigenous, Swiss, African, Japanese, Lima speaks four languages, her native Portuguese, English, Italian and Spanish. Lima never thought about being a model, although she had won many beauty pageants in elementary school, however, a friend at school who wanted to enter a modeling contest and did not want to enter alone, so Lima entered with her. Both sent in pictures, and the contest sponsor soon asked Lima to come out for the competition, soon after, at the age of 15, she entered and finished in first place in Fords Supermodel of Brazil model search. She subsequently entered the 1996 Ford Models Supermodel of the World contest, three years later, Lima moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management. After acquiring representation, Limas modeling portfolio quickly began to expand and her first magazine cover was Marie Claire Brazil in September 1998. Her first Vogue cover was the Italian Vogue Gioiello in September 2000, as a runway model, she has walked the catwalk for designers such as Rosa Cha, Blue man, Fashions Night Out, Caio Gobbi, Fause Haten, M. Lima became a GUESS. Girl in 2000, appearing in that years fall ad campaign and she also appeared in the book A Second Decade of Guess. Lima has also worked for notable fashion brands bebe, Armani, Versace, De Beers, Elie Saab, Colcci, Schiaparelli, Prada, Intimissimi, GUESS. Loewe, H&M, Bulgari, Miu Miu, Donna Karan, Emporio Armani, Givenchy, Keds, Mossimo, Jason Wu, Balmain, Blumarine, Marc Jacobs, Maybelline, BCBG and her April 2006 GQ cover was the highest-selling issue of that magazine for the year. It was also one of the all-time best selling issues of the publication, the magazine named her The Worlds Most Voluptuous Virgin. In 2006, Lima ranked as the fifth highest paid supermodel, in 2007 and 2008, she ranked as the worlds fourth highest paid supermodel by Forbes Magazine
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Lima in 2015, at the
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Victoria's Secret Angels Lima (left),
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Selita Ebanks ride in the
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Adriana Lima with the 2010 Fantasy Bra.
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Behati Prinsloo
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Behati Prinsloo is a Namibian model. In 2008, she became the first Victorias Secret PINK contract model and she has walked in nine consecutive Victorias Secret Fashion Shows. She has opened two Victorias Secret Fashion Shows in a row, the video of Behati finding out she is opening her second Victorias Secret Fashion Show in a row has over one million views on YouTube. Prinsloo was born and raised in Namibia, where her father, Boet, is a church minister and she grew up speaking Afrikaans and was educated in English. Her modeling career began when she was discovered while vacationing in Cape Town with her grandparents and we went to the grocery store after church and this guy came up to me and asked if I was a model and wrote his number on a piece of paper. Prinsloo debuted as a Prada/Miu Miu Exclusive, in 2010, Behati designed Behati Loves Pink swimsuit capsule collection for Victorias Secret. In 2014 she designed a line of denim for THVM, most recently she designed a fashion and accessories collection for Juicy Couture. Models. com ranks Behati on their lists of The Top Sexiest Models as well as their list of The Money Girls, in June 2014, Prinsloo made a cameo appearance in a preview of Missy Elliott protégée Sharaya Js Shut It Down via a T by Alexander Wang campaign. In 2008, she appeared in the video of The Virgins song Rich Girls. Behati has embarked on a trip to Haiti, following 2010s devastating earthquake that caused irreparable damage to the small nation. When she made the journey to Haiti, she was accompanied by a cameraman, the resulting short film, Letters To Haiti, debuted December 7,2011 at Milk Gallery in New York In May 2012 Prinsloo began dating Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. Prinsloo married Adam Levine in Mexico on 19 July 2014, Prinsloo gave birth to the couples first child, a daughter, in September 2016. Behati Prinsloo at the Fashion Model Directory Behati Prinsloo profile at NYmag. com Behati Prinsloo photos at Style. com
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Lais Ribeiro
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Lais Ribeiro is a Brazilian model. A year after giving birth to her son Alexandre, she gave in to a friends advice and started working as a model in her native Brazil. During the fashion week of Brazil for the spring/summer 2011 collections and she has been photographed for American, Brazilian, German, and Italian Vogue, and appeared in ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Christian Dior, Tom Ford, GAP and American Eagle. She was scheduled to walk the 2012 Victorias Secret Fashion Show and her outfit for that year was given to Behati Prinsloo. In 2013, because of what happened, the Victorias Secret producers gave Lais the opportunity to open the Birds of Paradise segment and she became a Victorias Secret Angel in 2015. LAIS RIBEIRO – GQ MAGAZINE MEXICO AUGUST2016 Victoria. s Secret Moda Terra
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Ribeiro at the 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in London
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Lais Ribeiro walking the runway for
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Sara Sampaio
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She has appeared in magazines such as GQ, Elle, Vogue, Glamour and Sports Illustrated. She won Portuguese Golden Globes in 2011,2012,2014,2015 and 2016 for Best Female Model, Sara was discovered at the age of 15, but was not allowed to compete in modeling competitions until the age of 16. At the age of 16, she won a modeling contest in Portugal called Cabelos Pantene 2007. After the contest, she had the chance to be in a commercial in Portugal, off the success of the contest and commercial, she was signed to an agency, however due to her strict parents, she had to finish high school before becoming professional. After completing high school, Sara attended the University of Lisbon and she attended part-time because she was not allowed to be homeschooled. While in Lisbon, she got a job as an editor until she had the opportunity to go international. She had the chance to be in a commercial in Portugal, sara’s dream was to work for Victoria’s Secret. After her agency sent in headshots, she was asked to audition, however, did not make it onto the Fashion Show. She would continue to pursue the runway though and would make her debut at the 2013 VS Fashion and her sophomore performance in 2014 would see her walk in two segments. In 2015, she was chosen as one of the newest angels for the 2015 runway, on October 24,2016 it was announced that Sara would be walking with the other Angels in the 2016 Fashion Show in Paris, France. She has been featured prominently in ads for Axe body spray in the United States. She was the face of Calzedonia again in 2013,2014 and 2015 and she also appeared in the Replay Fall/Winter 11/12 campaign, alongside Irina Shayk, in the Blumarine Fall/Winter 11/12 campaign, with Adriana Lima and in the Armani Fall/Winter 11/12 campaign. In 2013, she appeared in the first edition of the year of the Portuguese GQ and she appeared in Rosa Cha 2013 campaign alongside Barbara Palvin. She made her debut in the Victorias Secret Fashion Show on 13 November 2013 and she walked in the Pink segment. She walked the following year in two segments and in 2015, she walked in two segments, for the first year, as an angel. She has appeared in the 2014 and 2015 editions of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition and won the Rookie of the award in 2014. Sampaio has been on the cover of LOfficiel, Vogue, Marie Claire, Glamour, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, GQ, Telva, etc. In 2015, Maxim honored the 20th anniversary of the brand Victorias Secret, in May she got her first cover in the United States, photographed by Gilles Bensimon to Maxim
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Sampaio in 2014
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Candice Swanepoel
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Candice Susan Swanepoel is a South African supermodel, best known for her work with Victorias Secret. In 2012, she came in 10th on the Forbes top-earning models list, Swanepoel was born to Willem and Eileen Swanepoel and raised in Mooi River, South Africa, in an Afrikaner family of Dutch descent. She has one brother named Stephen, at age 15, she was spotted by a model scout in a Durban flea market. Swarovski, Agua Bendita, Colcci, True Religion, Nike, Juicy Couture, in 2010, Swanepoel became a Victorias Secret Angel. Swanepoel modeled for the Kardashians 2010 swimwear line, on 12 August 2010, Swanepoel officially opened the first Victorias Secret retail store in Canada, at West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton. In 2013, Swanepoel was named the model of the coveted Victorias Secret Swim Catalogue. Swanepoel was chosen to wear the Fantasy Bra in the 2013 Victorias Secret Fashion Show, the 10 million dollar bra, named the Royal Fantasy Bra, was created by Mouawad. The bra and its matching belt featured over 4,200 precious gems, including rubies, diamonds, the Royal Fantasy Bra is the most expensive Fantasy Bra since the 2005 Sexy Splendor Fantasy Bra worn by Gisele Bündchen. Swanepoel was voted No.61 in 2010, No.62 in 2011, No.75 in 2013, Swanepoel made her debut at No.10 on Forbes The Worlds Top-Earning Models list, with estimated earnings of $3 million between 2010 and 2011. She was ranked No.9 in 2013 with estimated earnings of $3.3 million, in 2015, she was ranked No 8 with earnings of $5 million. In 2016, she was ranked No 8 with earnings of $7 million and she is fluent in Afrikaans, English and Portuguese, the last of which she learned from her boyfriend, Hermann Nicoli, a Brazilian male model. She has been dating him since they met in Paris when she was 17, in August 2015, the couple announced their engagement. In March 2016, it was reported that she was pregnant with the couples first child, on 5 October 2016, she gave birth to a son, Anacã. She is close friends with fellow models Behati Prinsloo, Doutzen Kroes, Lily Aldridge, like fellow model Christy Turlington, Swanepoel is actively involved in Mother2Mother, a charity devoted to achieving an HIV-free generation of children and mothers in Africa. Swanepoel has designed denims for it, official website Candice Swanepoel at the Internet Movie Database Candice Swanepoel at the Fashion Model Directory
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Swanepoel at Victoria's Secret Michigan Avenue Store Hosting "The Nakeds" Launch in
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Jasmine Tookes
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Jasmine Tookes is an American model and Victorias Secret Angel. Tookes was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California and she has a younger sister, who is 19 years her junior. She did gymnastics for ten years and was active in volleyball and softball before she became a model at about the age of 15. Her mother is a celebrity fashion stylist, Tookes was discovered at one of her mothers showroom appointments. As a child, she was inspired by Tyra Banks, Tookes is of mixed ancestry, African, Brazilian, and West Indian. Tookes previously dated Danish model, Tobias Sorensen for about four years, now she is in a relationship with Juan David Borrero, a Senior Partnership Manager at Snapchat. Tookes first commercial ad campaigns were in 2010 for ugg boots, before breaking out on the international scene, she booked a Spring 2011 DKNY campaign and a layout in Vogue Italia. Models. com named Tookes as one of the top 10 new models in a September 27,2011 fashion week post, Tookes was selected by Style as its top new model in November 2011 based on her work for the Spring Fashion Shows. She was one of new models for the annual Victorias Secret Fashion Show in 2012. The 2012 show was taped in November and broadcast on the CBS network on December 4, french Vogue named her as one of its 10 New faces from fall/winter 2012-2013 Fashion Week. She has appeared in advertising campaigns for Jimmy Choo, Calvin Klein, Lancôme, DKNY, Ralph Lauren, Kate Spade, Gap, Ugg, in 2015, she became a Victorias Secret Angel. Tookes was selected to wear the Victorias Secret Fashion Show Fantasy Bra at the 2016 show which was held in Paris, Tookes made her debut at No.17 on Forbes The Worlds Highest Paid Models list in 2016, with estimated earnings of $4 million. Jasmine Tookes at the Internet Movie Database Jasmine Tookes on Twitter Jasmine Tookes, Jasmine Tookes at the Fashion Model Directory
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Tookes at the
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2014
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Tookes in 2013
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Tyra Banks
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Tyra Lynne Banks is an American model, television personality, producer, businesswoman, actress, author, and occasional singer. She was a Victorias Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005, by the early 2000s, Banks was one of the top-earning models in the world. Banks began acting on television in 1993 on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and she went on to have major roles such as Eve in Disney Channels Life-Size and Zoe in the box office hit Coyote Ugly. She had small roles in the romantic film Love & Basketball and horror film Halloween, Resurrection, Banks remained executive producer for the revival of the series, and enlisted Rita Ora as host for the twenty-third cycle before reassuming the duties herself for the upcoming twenty-fourth cycle. She also co-hosted the talk show FABLife for two months, in 2010, she published a young adult novel titled Modelland, based on her life as a model which topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011. Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have ranked among the worlds most influential people by TIME magazine. In 2017, Banks will replace Nick Cannon as host of Americas Got Talent for its 12th season, Tyra Lynne Banks was born in Inglewood, California on December 4,1973. She is the daughter of Carolyn London, a photographer, and Donald Banks. She has a brother, Devin, who is five years older, in 1979, when Banks was six years old, her parents divorced. Banks attended John Burroughs Middle School and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. While growing up, Banks states she was teased for her appearance and considered an ugly duckling, a genealogical DNA test on Americas Next Top Model revealed Banks is of African, British and Native American ancestry. When Banks was 15 years old, she started modeling while attending school in Los Angeles and she was rejected by four modeling agencies before she was signed by L. A. Models and then switched to Elite Model Management at age 16. When she got the opportunity to model in Europe, she moved to Milan, in her first runway season, she was booked in 25 shows at the 1991 Paris Fashion Week. Banks has appeared in editorials for American, Italian, French, and Spanish Vogue, American, French, German, and Spanish Elle, American, German, and Malaysian Harpers Bazaar, V, W, and Vanity Fair. She would later appear on the covers of such as Elle, Harpers Bazaar, American, Italian, German, British, Turkish, French and Spanish Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen. She has appeared in advertising campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, Escada, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Halston, H&M, XOXO, Swatch, Victorias Secret, Got Milk. In 1993, Banks signed a contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, launching advertising campaigns for the cosmetics company, in the mid-1990s, Banks returned to America to do more commercial modeling. Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ, in 1997, she received the VH1 award for Supermodel of the Year
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Interview at
Harvard Business School, 2011
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Banks at
Cannes Film Festival in 2000
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Banks in
Santa Monica on September 14, 2011
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Banks at the
2012 Time 100 gala
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Laetitia Casta
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Laetitia Marie Laure Casta is a French actress and model. Girl in 1993 and gained recognition as a Victorias Secret Angel from 1998 to 2000. Crew, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Roberto Cavalli, Lolita Lempicka, Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films Gainsbourg, Face and Blue Bicycle, as well as the play Ondine at the theatre Antoine. Casta was born in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France and her mother, Line Blin, is from Normandy. Her father, Dominique Casta, is from Corsica and she has an older brother, Jean-Baptiste, and a younger sister, Marie-Ange. She spent her childhood in Normandy and Corsica, castas modeling career reportedly began when she was discovered by the photographer Frederic Cresseaux, during a family holiday in her fathers native Corsica, at age 15. After her unexpected registration by Jeeby, Casta was elected Miss Lumio 93, Casta has been the LOreal Paris brand ambassador since 1998. She has been featured in Guess, Jeans, Tommy Hilfiger, Miu Miu, Pepe Jeans, Alberta Ferretti and XOXO ad campaigns. Casta has appeared on over 100 magazine covers including Victorias Secret catalogs, Harpers Bazaar, ELLE magazine and she walked down the annual Victorias Secret Fashion Show in 1997,1998,1999, and 2000. Caste was one of the companys signature Victoria Secret Angels from 1998 to 2000 and she claims that her career with Victorias Secret ended because she was too much of rebel. She also appeared in three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues, Rolling Stone, and the Pirelli Calendar 1999 by Herb Ritts and 2000 by Annie Leibovitz. Casta became the focus of a controversy when, after being selected to be Marianne, newspapers in Britain, castas father said she went to London for professional reasons, on a TV show, she also said that she rented a flat in London to be near her boyfriend. The Parisians could follow her Adventures in the Galeries Lafayette by Jean-Paul Goude, for Christmas 2011, Peter Lindbergh shot True Love, the very thought of Casta at the summit of Manhattan and between the snowy lions of marble of the New York Public Library for Tiffany & Co. On 10 March 2010, in Paris, she opened the Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2010 fashion show, on 27 September 2010, she closed the Roberto Cavalli SS2011 fashion show in Milan. Casta appeared in Les Ames Fortes, a film directed by Raul Ruiz. Her interpretation of Brigitte Bardot in the movie Gainsbourg revealed the actress who received her first nomination at the Cesar Award, Casta served as a jury member at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in 2012. On 6 April 2008, Casta demonstrated in a White March of nonviolent protest to ask for the release of Ingrid Betancourt. On 30 April 2002, she attended the demonstration Vive la République after the first round election of the 2002 presidential election and she was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador on December 9,2016, committed to help the 250 million children living in conflict areas
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Casta in 2015
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Helena Christensen
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Helena Christensen is a Danish fashion model and photographer. She is a former Victorias Secret Angel and beauty queen, Christensen has also served as creative director for Nylon magazine, designed clothing, and supported funding for breast cancer organizations and other charities. Christensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and her father is Danish, and her mother is Peruvian. Christensen won the Miss Universe Denmark crown in 1986 and represented Denmark in Miss Universe 1986, then the next year participated at Look of the Year 1987 and became a finalist. She left her soon afterwards to pursue modeling in Paris. Christensen appeared on magazine covers and in fashion campaigns during the 1990s. One noted campaign featured her in a 20 by 40 feet billboard in Times Square, bare and she was in the Victorias Secret catalog and in their television commercials as one of the signature Angels, along with Tyra Banks, Karen Mulder, Daniela Pestova, and Stephanie Seymour. She also became a spokesmodel for Revlon cosmetics in 1992, in 1991, she starred in the music video for Chris Isaaks song Wicked Game. The video was featured on MTVs Sexiest Video of All-Time, voted #4 on VH1s 50 Sexiest Video Moments. DeCaro reflected, Known by their first names to legions of fans, they are the legends of the modern catwalk, Christensen continues modelling, recently she graced the covers of Spanish Vogue, British Harper’s Bazaar and ELLE, and American Vs. magazine. She was also featured in the campaigns of Ermanno Screvino, Reebok, Charactere. Christensen is signed to ZZO Management in Paris, D Management in Milan, Unsigned Management in London, Christensen was creative director of Nylon magazine at its 1999 founding by publisher Marvin Scott Jarrett. She launched her own clothing line, Christensen & Sigersen, with lifelong friend Leif Sigersen, the pair previously ran Butik, a shop in New Yorks West Village. Christensen created a clothing line, sold in her mothers store. In 2012, she created a collection, Helena Christensen for Triumph. Christensen, whose collaboration with Triumph started in 2008 as the face of the Triumph brand, Christensen is a photographer whose work has appeared in Nylon, Marie Claire, and ELLE. Her exhibition A Quiet Story, curated by Jim Cook, premiered at the Locus Gallery in Rotterdam,2006 and her exhibition Far From, Close appeared at Dactyl Foundation in 2008–09, to benefit International Center of Photography educational programs and Chernobyl Childrens Project International. Christensen partnered with Oxfam in 2009 to document the impact of change in Peru
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Christensen at the 2012
Tribeca Film Festival
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At a 2007 Sustainable/Green Home opening party
