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Harvard Business School
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Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The school offers a large full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, HBX and it owns Harvard Business Publishing, which publishes business books, leadership articles, online management tools for corporate learning, case studies, and the monthly Harvard Business Review. Initially established by the faculty, it received independent status in 1910. The first dean was historian Edwin Francis Gay, the goal was an institution of higher learning that would offer a master of arts degree in the humanities field, with a major in business. In discussions about the curriculum, the suggestion was made to concentrate on business topics such as banking, railroads. Professor Lowell said the school would train qualified public administrators whom the government would have no choice but to employ, Harvard was blazing a new trail by educating young people for a career in business, just as its medical school trained doctors and its law faculty trained lawyers. From the start the school enjoyed a relationship with the corporate world. Within a few years of its founding many business leaders were its alumni and were hiring other alumni for starting positions in their firms, at its founding, the school accepted only male students. The Training Course in Personnel Administration, founded at Radcliffe College in 1937, was the beginning of training for women at Harvard. HBS took over administration of that program from Radcliffe in 1954, in 1959, alumnae of the one-year program were permitted to apply to join the HBS MBA program as second-years. In December 1962, the faculty voted to allow women to enter the MBA program directly, the first women to apply directly to the MBA program matriculated in September 1963. HBS is consistently ranked among the business schools in the world. It was ranked tied for 1st in the United States by U. S. News & World Report in 2017, No.1 in the U. S. by Bloomberg Businessweek, students can join one or more of the more than 80 clubs on campus. The Student Association is the interface between the MBA student body and the faculty/administration. The Summer Venture in Management Program is a management training program for rising college seniors designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education. Participants must be employed in an internship and be nominated by and have sponsorship from their company or organization to attend. HBX, is a learning initiative announced by the Harvard Business School in March 2014 to host online university-level courses. Initial programs are the Credential of Readiness and Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen, leading with Finance was added to the catalog in August 2016
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Inglewood, California
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Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, southwest of downtown Los Angeles. As of the 2010 U. S. Census, the city had a population of 109,673 and it was incorporated on February 14,1908. The city is in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park is currently under construction in the city and when completed around 2019 will be the new home of both the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers. The earliest residents of what is now Inglewood were Native Americans who used the springs in todays Edward Vincent Jr. Park. Local historian Gladys Waddingham wrote that these took the name Centinela from the hills that rose gradually around them. These settlers, she wrote, were ordered by the officials of the San Gabriel Mission to graze their animals on the side of Los Angeles in order not to infringe on Mission lands. Later Avila constructed an adobe on a slight rise overlooking the creek that ran from Centinela Springs all the way to the ocean. According to the LAOkay web site, this adobe was built where the present baseball field is in the park, two years later, Waddingham writes, Ygnacio was granted the 2, 220-acre Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela even though this land had already been claimed by Avila. Inglewood Park Cemetery, a widely used cemetery for the region, was founded in 1905. The city has been home to the Hollywood Park Racetrack from 1938 to 2013, fosters Freeze, the first Soft Serve ice cream chain in California, was founded by George Foster in 1946 in Inglewood. Inglewood was named an All-America City by the National Civic League in 1989, on January 12,2016, Inglewood was selected to be the home of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League. The raid led to the death of one of the culprits. A jury returned a not guilty verdict for all defendants who completed the trial and it was this scandal, according to the Los Angeles Times, that eventually led to the outlawing of the Klan in California. The Klan had a chapter in Inglewood as late as October 1931, no blacks had ever lived in Inglewood, Gladys Waddingham wrote, but by 1960, they lived in great numbers along its eastern borders. This came to the displeasure of the predominantly white residents already residing in Inglewood. In 1960, the census counted only 29 Negroes among Inglewoods 63,390 residents, not a single black child attended the citys schools. Real estate agents refused to show homes to blacks, a rumored curfew kept blacks off the streets at night. Inglewood was a target because of its history of restrictions
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Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles)
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Immaculate Heart High School, also known as Immaculate Heart Convent, is a Catholic all-girls school which commences with grade 6 and continues for seven years, up till year 12. The school is located in the Los Feliz neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, at the intersection of Franklin Avenue, there are approximately 200 students in the middle school and over 550 in the high school. The school is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and it was founded by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1906 as a girls day and boarding school. Although the school remains on its site, much of the original Spanish Mission style convent, classrooms. The graduation ceremony for the class is traditionally held at the Hollywood Bowl. By far the majority of its more than 10,000 graduates have continued their education at colleges and universities across the country and they have served with distinction as artists, musicians, educators, journalists, doctors, lawyers, judges, and stars of stage and screen
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America's Next Top Model
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Created and executive produced by Tyra Banks, the series premiered in May 2003, and was aired semiannually until 2012, then annually from 2013. The first six seasons were aired on UPN, before UPN merged The WB to create The CW in 2006, the following sixteen cycles were aired on The CW until the series was first cancelled in October 2015. The series has since been revived, with cycle 23 currently airing on VH1, the series was among the highest-rated programs on UPN, and was the highest-rated show on The CW from 2007 to 2010. Advertisers paid $61,315 per 30-second slot during the 2011–12 television seasons, the first twenty-two cycles of the series were presented by Banks, with cycle 23 being presented by Rita Ora. The series employs a panel of three or four judges, the original panel consisted of Banks, Janice Dickinson, Beau Quillian and Kimora Lee Simmons. Quillian and Simmons were replaced by Nigel Barker and Eric Nicholson in cycle 2, after cycle 4, Marin and Dickinson were replaced by J. Alexander and Twiggy in cycle 5. Paulina Porizkova joined the panel in cycle 10, in place of Twiggy, after cycle 12, Porizkova was fired by Banks and the panel was left with three judges in cycle 13. In cycle 14, Alexander left the panel and was replaced by André Leon Talley, in cycle 18, Kelly Cutrone replaced Talley. After cycle 18, Banks fired long-standing cast members Barker, Alexander, Barker was replaced by Rob Evans in cycle 19, and Manuel by Johnny Wujek. Alexander returned to the panel in cycle 21 in place of Evans, before the panel was replaced with Ora, Ashley Graham, Drew Elliott. Ora will be replaced as presenter and judge by the returning Banks for the upcoming cycle 24, cycles 1–16 and cycle 19 each consisted of a cast of between 10 and 14 female contestants with no previous participation on the series. Cycles 20–22 featured male contestants in the contest, including two eventual winners, cycle 23 follows the series original format of an all-new, all-female cast. Winners typically receive a feature in a magazine and a contract with a modeling agency among other prizes, the series is the originator of the international Top Model franchise. Over 30 versions of the series have been produced internationally and it was announced on January 24,2006, that Top Model would be part of the new The CW network, a merge between UPN and The WB, when the seventh cycle started in September airing on Wednesdays. The series became the first series among regular programming to air on the network, prior to the announcement of merging with The WB, UPN had committed to renewing the series through its ninth cycle on January 20,2006, for which casting was conducted throughout mid-2006. Americas Next Top Model is the show left on the network that was originally from UPN. On July 21,2006, the writers of Americas Next Top Model went on strike while working on cycle 7, the writers sought representation through the Writers Guild of America, West, which would allow them regulated wages, access to portable health insurance, and pension benefits. These benefits would be similar to those given to writers on scripted shows, the strike was the focus of a large rally of Hollywood writers coinciding with the premiere of the new network on September 20,2006
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The Tyra Banks Show
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The Tyra Banks Show, also known as and shortened to Tyra or The Tyra Show, is an American talk show hosted by Tyra Banks. In its later seasons, it took on a format similar to shows such as Maury and The Montel Williams Show, covering topics such as people with odd psychological problems. The show was aired in countries, and also remained available on XM Satellite Radios Take Five channel in both the United States and Canada. The final five episodes from Los Angeles were aired the week of September 3,2007 and followed by the 3rd-season premiere on following week. On December 19,2007, the show was renewed an additional two seasons in syndication, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010, the fourth season began on September 8,2008. However, in November 2008, Warner Bros. announced the program would move to The CW networks daytime block in September 2009, with both an archive episode and a first-run episode airing daily. As The CW was already airing ANTM, network officials saw the move as an alignment of interests for The CWs stations. On September 7,2009, Tyra made its debut on The CW, with a new logo and new music, on December 28,2009, it was announced that Season 5 would be the shows final season. The last episode aired on Friday, May 28,2010, the finale featured many special guest stars which include Mike Epps, Cheryl Tiegs, Miley Cyrus, LL Cool J, Rihanna, Michael Rapaport, and Robbi Morgan. During the 2010–2011 television season, repeats aired on weekdays at 3, 00–4, on June 20,2008, The Tyra Banks Show won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Informative. On August 30,2009, The Tyra Banks Show won another Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Informative, beating out Dr. Phil and The Doctors. In 2010, The Tyra Banks Show was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Talk Show Episode for the episode Hell to Pay – Gay Teen Exorcism during the 21st GLAAD Media Awards. The Tyra Banks Show at the Internet Movie Database The Tyra Banks Show at TV. com
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GQ
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GQ is an international monthly mens magazine based in New York City. The publication focuses on fashion, style, and culture for men, though articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, sports, technology, Gentlemens Quarterly was launched in 1931 in the United States as Apparel Arts. It was a fashion magazine for the clothing trade, aimed primarily at wholesale buyers. Initially it had a limited print run and was aimed solely at industry insiders to enable them to give advice to their customers. The popularity of the magazine among retail customers, who took the magazine from the retailers. Apparel Arts continued until 1957, when it was transformed into a magazine for men. Apparel was dropped from the logo in 1958 with the issue after nine issues. Gentlemans Quarterly was re-branded as GQ in 1967, the rate of publication was increased from quarterly to monthly in 1970. Subsequently, international editions were launched as regional adaptations of the U. S. editorial formula, jim Nelson was named editor-in-chief of GQ in February 2003, during his tenure he worked as both a writer and an editor of several National Magazine Award-nominated pieces. During Nelsons tenure, GQ has become more oriented towards younger readers, nonnie Moore was hired by GQ as fashion editor in 1984, having served in the same position at Mademoiselle and Harpers Bazaar. GQ has been associated with metro-sexuality. They filled their magazines with images of young men sporting fashionable clothes and accessories. And they persuaded other young men to them with a mixture of envy. The magazine has expanded its coverage beyond lifestyle issues, for example, in 2003, Award winning journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely wrote an 8-page feature story in GQ on famous con man Steve Comisar. GQ first named their Men of the Year in 1996, featuring the recipients in a special issue of the magazine. British GQ launched their annual Men of the Year awards in 2009, spanish GQ launched their Men of the Year awards in 2011 and GQ Australia launched theirs in 2007. Beginning in the 1990s, the magazine pivoted from a pattern of men-only on the cover to introducing including some female actors, models. While the men on the covers remained clothed, the photographs of women were mostly less than fully clothed
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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
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The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is published annually by American Sports Illustrated magazine. The cover photograph features fashion models wearing swimwear in exotic locales, all models featured on the cover of the swimsuit issue in the magazines history have been women. According to some, the magazine is the arbiter of supermodel succession, the swimsuit issue of the magazine carries advertising that, in 2005 amounted to US$35 million in value. New issues come out around the middle of February or later, first published in 1964, it is credited with making the bikini, invented in 1946, a legitimate piece of apparel. The issue that got the most letters was the 1978 issue, the best selling issue was the 25th Anniversary Issue with Kathy Ireland on the cover in 1989. Other models within its pages, but not on its cover, include Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, Niki Taylor, Angie Everhart, the eight models featured on the cover of the 2006 issue were featured in a coffee-table book called Sports Illustrated, Exposure. Photographed by Raphael Mazzucco and produced by Diane Smith, the unprecedented reunion shoot featured 139 pages of previously-unpublished images, in 2006, the issue expanded publishing to handheld devices. In 2007, the issue was first available in China. The swimsuit issue was invented by Sports Illustrated editor Andre Laguerre to fill the winter months and he asked fashion reporter Jule Campbell to go on a shoot to fill space, including the cover, with a beautiful model. The first issue, released in 1964, entailed a cover featuring Babette March, however, the issue did not exclusively feature models until 1997. In the 1950s a few appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. In 1997, Tyra Banks was the first black woman on the cover and that years issue was the first that was a stand-alone edition, separate from the regular weekly magazine. Female athletes have appeared in swimsuit shoots, in the 2003 issue, tennis player Serena Williams and figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva were featured inside the magazine. In 2016, UFC fighter Ronda Rousey became the first female athlete to appear on the cover, however, Anna Kournikova appeared in an inset on the 2004 cover, and had a photo spread within its pages. In 2005, Olympic gold medalists Amanda Beard and Jennie Finch, along with Lauren Jackson, maria Sharapova appeared in an inset on the 2006 cover and had a spread inside. In spring 2006, Sports Illustrated chose music as the theme for the 2007 issue, Swimsuit editor Diane Smith wanted Grammy-winner Beyoncé Knowles to pose. In 2006, Beyoncé launched a line under her House of Deréon clothing label. Beyoncé Knowles became the first singer, and first non-model, to appear on the cover in 2007, in 2008, NFL cheerleaders appeared for the first time
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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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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10,1990, to May 20,1996. In the series, his lifestyle often clashes with the lifestyle of his relatives in Bel Air, the series ran for six seasons and aired 148 episodes. In December 1989, NBC approached Will Smith, a rapper during the late 1980s. The pilot episode began taping on May 1,1990, Season 1 aired in July 1990 and ended in March 1991. The series finale was taped on Thursday, March 21,1996, the theme song Yo Home to Bel Air was written and performed by Smith under his rap stage name, The Fresh Prince. The music was composed by Quincy Jones, who is credited with Smith at the end of each episode, the music often used to bridge scenes together during the show is based on a similar chord structure. The theme song and opening sequence set the premise of the show, will Smith is a street-smart teenager, born and raised in West Philadelphia. Will Smith as Will Smith James Avery as Philip Banks Janet Hubert-Whitten, to gain popularity between the two shows, Will Smith appeared in the Blossom episode Im with the Band as himself under his rap stage name, The Fresh Prince. That same season, Karyn Parsons appeared in the Blossom episode Wake Up Little Suzy as Hilary Banks, Parsons also appeared in the Patti LaBelle sitcom, Out All Night as Hilary. In the House and Fresh Prince were both produced by Winifred Hervey, David Salzman and Quincy Jones. During the second seasons first episode, Alfonso Ribeiro and Tatyana Ali appeared as their Fresh Prince characters in the crossover episode Dog Catchers, later that season, James Avery appeared as a mediator in the episode Love on a One-Way Street. In the Season 4 episode My Pest Friends Wedding, James Avery, both Avery and Reid portrayed the parents of Ribeiros Fresh Prince character. Joseph Marcell, who played the wisecracking Geoffrey Butler on Fresh Prince, the series was produced by NBC Productions in association with The Stuffed Dog Company and Quincy Jones Entertainment. After the show was released to syndication in 1994, the series has been distributed by Warner Bros, television, which continues to distribute the show worldwide. TBS continues to air the series today, early in the morning. Reruns also aired on WPIX-TV back to back weeknights at 6 pm &6,30 pm EST from 1994 until 2000, but, the series was still rerunning on The WBs affiliation WPIX-TV until 2006. The show returned to Nick at Nite on September 29,2014, but in August 2010, Disney XD stopped airing the show. ABC Family acquired the series in September 2008, though airing all 148 episodes, originally airing exclusively on Saturday nights, on September 29,2014, Disney/ABC rights to the show expired
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Higher Learning
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Higher Learning is a 1995 American drama film written and directed by John Singleton, and starring an ensemble cast. The film also featured Tyra Banks first performance in a theatrical film, laurence Fishburne won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, Ice Cube was also nominated for the award. This was the last film appearance of Dedrick D. Gobert, the exterior shots and outdoor scenes were shot on the campus of University of California, Los Angeles while the interiors were shot at Sony Pictures Studios. John Singleton started dating Tyra Banks after filming wrapped in mid-1994, at the fictitious Columbus University, students Malik Williams, a black track athlete, Kristen Connor, a white woman, and Remy, a white young man, are starting their freshman year. Kristens roommate is Monet, a black student, Maliks roommate is Wayne, a white student. Both sets of roommates generally get along, Monet and Malik attend a dorm party hosted by Fudge, an Afrocentric and militant senior. Remy, Fudges roommate, is upset at the rap music being played so late. He flags down an all-white campus security patrol to break up the party, Fudge is upset that lead Officer Bradley comes down hard on the black students, but allows the room down the hall to continue their loud hillbilly music. Kristen, while walking home, meets Taryn, a junior as well as a lesbian student. Taryn warns her about walking alone late at night and invites her to a student group, Malik and Kristens PoliSci 101 class is taught by Professor Maurice Phipps, a conservative black man from the West Indies. Professor Phipps challenges the class to determine who they are for themselves, Fudge and his friend Dreads again play loud rap music, disrupting Remys studying. When Remy complains, Fudge mocks and threatens him, causing Remy to move in with a new roommate, later, Remy loses at a video game to Malik, who further mocks him. Frat boy Billy rapes a drunken Kristen, Monet finds Kristen crying on her bed, then fields a racially charged call from Billy. Angered, Monet turns to Fudge, who recruits his friends to confront him at a frat party, Kristen points out Billy to the black students, who pull him outside and force him to apologize to Monet. Kristen joins Taryns student group on harmony between different races and cliques, with time, she eventually opens up to Taryn about her rape, with Taryn encouraging her to report it and attempting to console her. As days pass, Kristen slowly realizes her attraction to Taryn. He is invited for a drink by Scott Moss, a white supremacist neo-Nazi skinhead, along with Scotts skinhead friends, Erik, James, Malik confronts Phipps about a paper, arguing for a better grade. When Phipps shows him the spelling and grammar errors, Malik calls him a sellout for the white establishment
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Disney Channel
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Disney Channels programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically-released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming. Disney Channel – which formerly operated as a premium service – originally marketed its programs towards families during the 1980s, most of Disney Channels original programming is aimed at kids ages 9–16, while its Disney Junior programs are targeted at children 8 years and under. As of January 2016, Disney Channel is available to approximately 93.9 million pay television households in the United States. The Disney Sunday Movie, a version of the Walt Disney anthology television series, began on the channel in 1986 concurrent with ABCs version until 1988 and NBCs The Magical World of Disney. Disney Channel Original Movies series of made for television movies started on August 23,1997 with Northern Lights supplanting the previous Disney Channel Premiere Films banner.2 million viewers. The Cheetah Girls films were also successful in terms of merchiandise. The first film in 2003 was the first made-for-TV movie musical in Disney Channels history, and had a worldwide audience of over 84 million viewers. The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8.1 million viewers in the U. S. Disney Junior – Disney Junior is a block that features shows targeted at children aged 3–9. Which debuted on February 14,2011, it airs Monday through Fridays from 8,00 a. m. –2,00 p. m. and weekends from 6,00 to 9,00 a. m. Disney Junior carries one of the few programs on Disney Channel that feature classic Disney characters as of 2013, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Other programs currently seen in this block include Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Sheriff Callies Wild West, Sofia the First, Miles from Tomorrowland, The Lion Guard and Doc McStuffins. C. Saturdays from 8, 00-11,00 p. m. and Sundays from 7, Saturday nights feature repeats of recent episodes of the channels original series or an occasional film telecast. Encores of the respective nights programs typically air between 11,00 p. m. and 2,30 a. m, Eastern/Pacific each night during that weekend. Out of This World Weekend – a weekend of shows having space themed episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows having mystery themed episodes. This was the first special weekend, Summer Adventure Weekend – a weekend of shows with vacation themed episodes. Flash Forward Weekend – a weekend of shows related to time travel, freaky Freakend – a weekend of shows featuring paranormal themed episodes. April Fuel Week – a week of shows featuring special episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows featuring guest stars from other Disney Channel shows, occurs mostly in April. Programming seen during Disney Nighttime included older feature films, along with original concert specials, variety specials, mystery Night – ran each Tuesday evening starting at 9,00 p. m. Eastern/Pacific from 1990 to 1993, focused on mystery films from the 1930s to the 1960s
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Life-Size
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Life-Size is a 2000 fantasy comedy television film directed by Mark Rosman and originally premiered on ABC. It was released to DVD and VHS in the same year, the film is a family comic fantasy starring Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks in a tale of a young girls Eve Doll that is transformed into a perfect living woman. The tagline for the film was She was a perfect doll, filmed during 1999, it premiered as part of The Wonderful World of Disney on ABC, and made its début on Disney Channel in March 2000. However, the film wasnt released in the United Kingdom until August 3,2002, Casey Stuart, is a tomboy who is the quarterback of her schools seventh grade football team. Since her mother died, she has been avoiding her old friends, wanting to bring her mother back to life, Casey finds a book of magic with a section on resurrecting the dead at a local book store. A successful resurrection will become permanent unless it is undone before sunset on the day after it begins. However, since the book was expensive, she left all the money she had on the shelf in a compartment which is where the book was. Following the books instructions, Casey collects artifacts s from her mothers life, however, the resurrection is unwittingly sabotaged when Drew Mitchell, a woman who works with and is romantically interested in Caseys father Ben, gives Casey an Eve doll. Eve is a doll in the form of a beautiful young woman. She has lots of accessories, including outfits appropriate to challenging careers such as law enforcement, medicine, and aerospace, as Casey is preparing to resurrect her mother, Drew stops by to give her the doll for her birthday and uses the hairbrush to brush the dolls hair. Casey is upset by this, but Eve is excited about being human and she also helps Casey cope with the loss of her mother. Meanwhile, Casey discovers that she needs the second volume of the book to reverse Eves spell. During this time, tension builds between Casey and her father, who has been missing her football games while trying to secure a promotion in his law firm, the tension is further increased by Bens attraction to Eve, which Casey resents as a betrayal of her mother. Eve helps people turn into a version of themselves. As the film proceeds, Casey and Eve gradually become friends, Eve displays insight and sensitivity in talking with Casey about her mother, and she helps Casey with her self-confidence. In exchange, Casey gives Eve tips on how to be a popular doll, by the time the magic book arrives at the local bookstore, Casey has decided she likes Eve, so she doesnt buy it. Unfortunately, Eve has been getting homesick, discouraged by her difficulties in being human and worried about being discontinued by Marathon, Eve decides to undo the spell herself. After buying the book, and saying goodbye to Ben at Caseys championship game, she goes to Sunnyvale, a decorated room at Marathon headquarters
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Coyote Ugly (film)
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Coyote Ugly is a 2000 American romantic musical comedy-drama film based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon. Set in New York City, the film stars Piper Perabo and it was directed by David McNally, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman, and written by Gina Wendkos. Violet Sanford leaves her hometown of South Amboy, New Jersey, her father Bill, the pizza shop where she works has a wall covered with the autographs of employees that left, hoping to make it big, and Violet adds hers to the wall. Violet tries unsuccessfully, a lot of times, to get her demo tape noticed by the recording studios, one night, she tries to get herself noticed by a music industry scout. The bartender jokingly points out Kevin ODonnell, making her believe that he is the bar owner, when the joke is discovered, Violet feels that Kevin was making a fool out of her. After inquiring, she finds out that work at a trendy bar named Coyote Ugly. She finds her way to the bar and convinces the bar owner Lil to give her an audition, Violets first audition does not go well, but after breaking up a fight between two customers, Lil agrees to give her a second audition. At her second audition, Violet douses the fire warden in water costing Lil $250, in order to keep her job, she has to make up $250 in one night. Kevin turns up at the bar, but ends up being auctioned off to one of the women in the bar, in order to pay off her debt to Kevin, Violet agrees to go on four dates with him. Kevin commits himself to helping Violet overcome her stage fright so that she can sell her music, Violets stage fright was shown to be inherited from her mother who also came to New York to be a singer. Also shown is Violets ability to sing to songs that she did not write and this fact is verified when she sings on the bar in the bar in order to save the necks of Cammie and Rachel, who were trying to break up a fight between the customers. One night, a patron takes a picture of Violet in the middle of a raunchy move, when the picture appears in the paper, Bill happens to see it and gets angry at her. She continues to pursue her dream, though, despite being sidetracked with work at the bar, after getting fired when Kevin gets into a fight at the bar, Violet returns to New Jersey for Glorias wedding and returns to New York when Bill was in a car accident. Later, she performs at an open mic night at the Bowery Ballroom with the Coyotes from the Coyote Ugly saloon, Bill, Gloria, the performance goes over very well and she finally lands a deal with a record label. The film concludes back at Coyote Ugly with LeAnn Rimes, having recorded Violets song, singing on the bar as Violet joins in. Early on, before the decided to cast mostly unknown actors, the lead role of Violet Sanford was offered to pop singer Jessica Simpson. Principal photography took place in Manhattan and small towns in New Jersey including South Amboy, production then moved to California and shooting took place in Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Pasadena, and San Pedro. The film was based on an article, The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon, in GQ by Elizabeth Gilbert, the bar, which opened in 1993, quickly became a favorite of the Lower East Side hipsters
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Love & Basketball
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Love & Basketball is a 2000 American romantic drama film starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan. The film tells the story of Quincy McCall and Monica Wright, the film was produced by 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, and marks the directing debut of screenwriter Gina Prince-Bythewood. Monica and Quincy have wanted to be professional basketball stars since they were kids, Monica wanted to play for the Los Angeles Lakers and wear Magic Johnsons number 32, and Quincy wanted to be like his father and play for the Clippers, wearing number 22. However, Monica has to work hard to establish herself, while Quincy was born with natural star potential, as the two struggle to reach their goals of playing professionally, they must also deal with their emotions for each other. The film spans roughly thirteen years of friendship between childhood sweethearts Monica Wright and Quincy McCall, Quincy and Monica are drawn to each other instantly, sharing a love of the game, basketball. Quincy is shocked that a girl could ever love basketball as much as he did, the second quarter of the story begins in 1988, when both Monica and Quincy are the respective leaders of their high school teams. Scouts have taken notice of Quincy, who many see as one of the top prospects in the country. Aside from her emotions on the court, she struggles with the emotions she secretly still harbors for Quincy. Monica also has problems with her mother Camille, who is a stay at home wife, through soul searching throughout the season, Monica learns to control her emotions and leads her team to the state championship game. However, both she and her team came up short leading them to a victory, leaving Monica devastated and in tears. Later on, Monica begins to recover from the defeat with the help of her sister, Lena. With nothing more than a new style and a dress. Despite having a date of his own, Quincy notices her and immediately walks over to her to compliment her new appearance and they both show jealousy towards each others dates and part ways. Later that night, they both speak outside her window and reveal to other how their dates didnt meet their needs. She also lets him know that she has a letter from University of Southern California, after the letter reveals that she has been accepted, he finally stated that USC was also his choice. As they move in to each other with a hug, Monica mistakes the gesture as a kiss. The third quarter of the story follows Quincy and Monica to their year at USC in 1988-89, where they are managing themselves as athletes, students. Again, the problems seem to present themselves, this time on a bigger stage
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Halloween: Resurrection
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Halloween, Resurrection is a 2002 American slasher film and the eighth installment in the Halloween film series. Directed by Rick Rosenthal, who had also directed Halloween II in 1981 and it continues with the masked serial killer Michael Myers continuing his murderous rampage in his hometown of Haddonfield. Yet, this time, the old, derelict childhood home is being used for a live internet horror show. The film came out to widely negative reviews, having just a 12% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite the heavy criticism, Resurrection was somewhat of a box office success, actress Jamie Lee Curtis returned in her long-running role as Laurie Strode, Larry Brand and Sean Hood devised the screenplay. Resurrection is currently the final installment in the original Halloween film series, although more sequels were planned to follow Resurrection, the series was eventually rebooted with Rob Zombies 2007 remake of the original Halloween. Three years after the events of the film, Laurie Strode has been confined to psychiatric facility after killing a paramedic instead of her brother Michael Myers. The paramedic paramedic had located the body of Myers in the hall of Hillcrest Academy, Myers attacked him, and crushed his larynx so he wouldnt cry out. It was actually the paramedic that Laurie had beheaded, as Laurie drove the coroners van out of the school, Myers in the paramedics clothing walked out of the school grounds and went into hiding. On October 31,2001, Laurie, pretending to be heavily medicated, Michael appears and kills two security guards, decapitating one and slitting the throat of the other as he makes his way to Laurie. After a chase, Laurie lures Michael into a trap, as she attempts to him, Michael feigns confusion. Unable to risk killing another innocent person, Laurie starts to remove his mask to make sure that it is her brother, Myers quickly gains the upper hand and stabs Laurie in the back before sending her off the roof to her death. On Halloween, equipped with head-cameras as well as the cameras throughout the house, they search the house, saras messaging friend Deckard watches the broadcast during a Halloween party. Meanwhile, Michael breaches his home and stabs Bill in the head, Donna and Jim begin getting intimate in the basement and a wall filled with corpses falls on them. Jim realizes the corpses are fake and the show is a setup, Jim leaves, but Donna notices a tunnel behind the fallen wall. Myers chases her through the tunnels before impaling her on a spike on the wall, at the party, Deckard and other partygoers witness the murder. Deckard realizes that the murder was real, but the others believe it is an act, Freddie goes through the house dressed as Michael, but is secretly followed by the real Myers. Freddie, mistaking Michael for Charlie, tells him to go to the garage and help Nora out, he goes to the garage and promptly kills Nora
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Gossip Girl
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Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19,2007, to December 17,2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger Gossip Girl, voiced by Kristen Bell, the series begins with the return of Upper East Side teenage it girl Serena van der Woodsen from a mysterious absence. Gossip Girl reveals that Serena has been away at boarding school in Cornwall, Connecticut, Blair Waldorf, whom creators describe as being the queen at the center of their chess game, is the queen bee of Constance Saint Jude prep schools social scene. She also happens to be the childhood best friend and occasional rival of Serena van der Woodsen, other characters of the turbulent Manhattan scene, Vanessa Abrams, Dans childhood best friend. He is Dan and Jennys father and primary guardian, dorota is Blairs primary housekeeper since her youth. Bart Bass is a rude and wealthy man on the upper east side. The success of Gossip Girl led to adaptations outside the United States, the show has received numerous award nominations, winning 18 Teen Choice Awards. The CW officially renewed Gossip Girl for a sixth and final season on May 11,2012, the final season, consisting of 10 episodes, premiered on October 8,2012, and ended on December 17,2012. The Gossip Girl book series was supposed to be adapted into a film starring Lindsay Lohan with head Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. When the film project did not get off the ground, Stephanie Savage, as of October 2006, Schwartz was working on the pilot. He said, I was very skeptical, I dont want to do The O. C. But I thought the books were smart, the characters are worldly in a way that Orange County kids arent. The characteristics for each character in the pilot were based on the first Gossip Girl book, in January 2007, the show was given the green light by The CW. Joshua Safran, who started as a producer before becoming co-executive producer, was later added as an executive producer. On April 24,2012, it was announced that he would leave the show at the end of the season to be the new showrunner of NBCs now-cancelled musical series Smash. To fill in Safrans void, co-executive producer Sara Goodman was promoted to producer for the sixth season. Alexandra Patsavas who worked with Schwartz on The O. C. was in charge of the music, Eric Daman was at the head of the costume department, he previously had assisted Patricia Field on Sex and the City
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Glee (TV series)
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Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States from May 19,2009, to March 20,2015. In subsequent seasons, the main cast has expanded to fourteen and fifteen members, the series was created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, the latter of whom first conceived of Glee as a film. The three wrote all of the episodes for the first two seasons, and Murphy and Falchuk initially served as the shows main directors. The pilot episode was broadcast on May 19,2009, subsequent seasons aired in September through May. The sixth and final season aired from January to March 2015, Glee features on-screen performance-based musical numbers that were selected by Murphy, who aimed to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits, and produced by Adam Anders and Peer Åström. Songs covered in the show were released through the iTunes Store during the week of broadcast, the music of Glee has been a commercial success, with over thirty-six million digital single sales and eleven million album sales worldwide through October 2011. The series merchandise also includes DVD and Blu-ray releases, an iPad application, during its first season, Glee received generally favorable reviews from critics, with Metacritics weighted average of 77 out of 100 based on eighteen critical reviews. The show was chosen by Fox to fill the coveted time slot that followed the networks coverage of Super Bowl XLV in 2011. After 121 episodes and over 728 music performances, Glee came to an end on March 20,2015, the series focuses on a high school show choir, also known as a glee club, in the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. Will Schuester takes over the club after the former teacher Sandy Ryerson is fired for inappropriate contact with a male student. The seasons stories revolve around the same Glee club members as first season, with Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce added to the main cast, Season 3 follows the club through wins at Sectionals and Regionals competitions, before they win the Nationals competition in Chicago. The characters deal with identity, adoption, domestic abuse, teenage suicide, bullying, disabilities, texting while driving, college. The McKinley High class of 2012 graduates at the end of the season, in the meantime, Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel navigate NYADA and their lives as aspiring performers, plus their relationships with Finn and Blaine. Issues during the season include sex, bulimia, gender identity, child molestation, dyslexia, school violence, former main cast members Emma Pillsbury and Quinn Fabray were credited as guest stars, while previously recurring glee club member Sam Evans was promoted to the main cast. Season 5, unlike previous seasons, continues the school begun in the previous season. The show then jumps several months forward in time and deals entirely with the lives in New York City for the remainder of the season. Throughout this season, the club and its alumni deal with relationships, death and mourning, body image, gay bashing, intimacy, and other social issues. Several main cast members dropped to recurring guest stars as of season, Amber Riley as Mercedes, Mark Salling as Puck, Harry Shum Jr. as Mike
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Reality television
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It differs from documentary television in that the focus tends to be on drama, personal conflict, and entertainment rather than educating viewers. The genre has various standard tropes, including confessionals used by cast members to express their thoughts, an early example of the genre was the 1991 Dutch series Nummer 28, which was the first show to bring together strangers and record their interactions. It then exploded as a phenomenon in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the success of the series Survivor, Idols. These shows and a number of others became global franchises, spawning local versions in dozens of countries, Reality television as a whole has become a fixture of television programming. There are grey areas around what is classified as reality television, Reality television has faced significant criticism since its rise in popularity. Much of the criticism has centered on the use of the word reality, Television formats portraying ordinary people in unscripted situations are almost as old as the television medium itself. Precedents for television that portrayed people in unscripted situations began in the late 1940s, queen for a Day was an early example of reality-based television. The 1946 television game show Cash and Carry sometimes featured contestants performing stunts, debuting in 1948, Allen Funts hidden camera show Candid Camera broadcast unsuspecting ordinary people reacting to pranks. In 1948, talent search shows Ted Macks Original Amateur Hour and Arthur Godfreys Talent Scouts featured amateur competitors, in the 1950s, game shows Beat the Clock and Truth or Consequences involved contestants in wacky competitions, stunts, and practical jokes. Confession was a show which aired from June 1958 to January 1959. The radio series Nightwatch tape-recorded the daily activities of Culver City, the series You Asked for It incorporated audience involvement by basing episodes around requests sent in by postcard from viewers. First broadcast in the United Kingdom in 1964, the Granada Television documentary Seven Up, broadcast interviews with a dozen ordinary 7-year-olds from a broad cross-section of society and inquired about their reactions to everyday life. Every seven years, a film documented the life of the same individuals during the period, titled the Up Series, episodes include 7 Plus Seven,21 Up. The program was structured as a series of interviews with no element of plot, however, it did have the then-new effect of turning ordinary people into celebrities. The first reality show in the modern sense may have been the series The American Sportsman, Another precursor may be considered Mutual of Omahas Wild Kingdom which aired from 1963 through 1988. This show featured zoologist Marlin Perkins traveling across the globe and illustrating the variety of animal life on the planet. Though mostly a travelogue, it was popular in syndication and new episodes were produced through the eighties. The 12-part 1973 PBS series An American Family showed a nuclear family going through a divorce, unlike many later reality shows, it was more or less documentary in purpose and style
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Rita Ora
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Rita Sahatçiu Ora is a British singer and actress. She rose to prominence in February 2012 when she was featured on DJ Freshs single Hot Right Now and her debut studio album, Ora, released in August 2012, debuted at number one in the United Kingdom. The album contained the UK number-one singles R. I. P. Ora was the artist with the most number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart in 2012, with three consecutive singles reaching the top position. In 2014, her single I Will Never Let You Down became her fourth UK number one, and she featured on Iggy Azaleas single Black Widow, which reached the top five in the UK and the US. In January 2014, Adidas announced a collaboration with Ora for their brand. In 2015, Ora became a coach on the series of The Voice UK and, later that year. Ora was born in Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia, to Albanian parents and her mother, Vera, is a psychiatrist, and her father, Besnik Sahatçiu, is an economist and a pub owner. Ora has a brother, Don, and an older sister, Elena. She was born as Rita Sahatçiu, but her parents later added Ora to the family surname so it could be easily pronounced and her family left Kosovo for political reasons, because of the persecution of ethnic Albanians initiated with the disintegration of Yugoslavia. They relocated to London, England in 1991, when she was a year old and she began singing at an early age. Ora began performing at open mic sessions around London and, occasionally, in 2007, Ora had her first music release when she appeared on Craig Davids track titled Awkward, and then again in 2008 on Wheres Your Love, featuring Tinchy Stryder. On both tracks she was not officially credited and she featured on two songs of James Morrisons album, Songs for You, Truths for Me, as backing vocalist. Her manager, Sarah Stennett, later told HitQuarters that Ora had entered the competition because at the time she felt it was her chance at finding success. Stennett reassured her that performing in Eurovision would hinder rather than help her chances to make it as a solo artist, shortly after, Stennett got in touch with the American label, Roc Nation, and told them about Ora. She signed a deal and a publishing deal with Roc Nation in December 2008. She made cameo appearances in Jay Zs video for Young Forever and Drakes video, after being signed, Ora recorded an album and wanted to release it, but her label advised against it and she started to work on other material for her debut album. Throughout 2011, Ora released covers and videos about working on her album on YouTube. The videos caught the attention of DJ Fresh, who at time was looking for a female vocalist for his song
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True Beauty (TV series)
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True Beauty is a television series in which contestants are competing to see who is the most beautiful. However, they think they are only being tested on outer beauty, the show is hosted by three judges, who judge the contestants on their inner beauty, in addition to their appearance. The contestants are competing for $100,000 and to be featured in People magazines 100 most beautiful people issue, the series is produced by Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher. It premiered on ABC on January 5,2009, the second season premiered May 31,2010. It is listed as cancelled on tvseriesfinale. com, the first season premiered on January 5,2009 on ABC, and featured judges Vanessa Minnillo, Nolé Marin, and Cheryl Tiegs. On the season finale, which first aired February 23,2009, Julia Anderson was named the winner, with Joel Rush finishing second, the second season premiered on May 31,2010 on ABC, and featured judges Vanessa Minnillo, Carson Kressley, and Beth Stern. On the season finale, which aired July 19,2010, Taylor Bills was declared the winner, placing Erika Othen in second, official website True Beauty at the Internet Movie Database True Beauty at TV. com
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FABLife
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FABLife is an American syndicated daily lifestyle panel talk show. It premiered on September 14,2015 in the United States, on January 19,2016, Disney-ABC announced that it has canceled FABLife after one season due to low ratings. The eight ABC O&O stations committed to the show upon its announcement, with other different broadcast groups such as E. W. Scripps Company, Tegna, Media General and Cox Media following. On Friday November 20,2015 Tyra Banks said in a statement that shes leaving the show in December in order to more on her cosmetics company TYRA Beauty. She was expected to back to make occasional appearances and continue as executive producer. On Tuesday, January 19,2016, ABC/Disney announced that it not to renew FABLife for a second season. The series continued to air new episodes that were scheduled and produced until spring. FABLife ended its run Summer 2016, official website FABLife at the Internet Movie Database FABLife on Twitter FABLife on Instagram
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Nick Cannon
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Nicholas Scott Nick Cannon is an American rapper, actor, comedian, entrepreneur, record producer, radio and television personality. On television, Cannon began as a teenager on All That before going on to host The Nick Cannon Show, Wild N Out and he acted in the films Drumline, Love Dont Cost a Thing, and Roll Bounce. As a rapper he released his debut self-titled album in 2003 with the hit single Gigolo, in 2007 he played the role of the fictional footballer TJ Harper in the film Goal II, Living the Dream. In 2006, Cannon recorded the singles Dime Piece and My Wife for the planned album Stages, Cannon married American R&B/pop singer, Mariah Carey in 2008. He filed for divorce in December 2014, after six years of marriage, the divorce was finalized in 2016. Cannon was born on October 8,1980, in San Diego, Cannon was largely raised by his paternal grandfather, whom both he and his biological father called dad. Growing up in Lincoln Park, a notorious neighborhood in Southeast San Diego, Cannon avoided gangs. Cannon received his first break doing stand-up comedy on his fathers local cable access program. As a teenager, Cannon formed the rap group Da G4 Dope Bomb Squad with his friend Steve Groves, they opened for the likes of Will Smith, LFO,98 Degrees, and Montell Jordan. After signing with Jive Records in 2001, he was featured alongside Romeo Miller and 3LW on the Jimmy Neutron and his debut self titled album was released in 2003 and included the single Your Pops Dont Like Me. In 2005, Cannon formed his own label, Can-I-Ball Records, with plans to release his second studio album, entitled Stages. The albums first single, Can I Live, a pro-life song, was released in July 2005 followed by the second single Dime Piece in March 2006. It was never released because of Nick Cannons acting career, in 2009 Nick Cannon formed a new label after cancelling his old label Can-I-Ball Records entitled NCredible Entertainment. In 2010, Cannon created a parody of hip hop pioneer Slick Rick entitled Slick Nick, on December 6,2011, Nick Cannon released his debut mixtape entitled Child of the Corn. The albums second single Looking for a Dream was released on February 11,2014, the music video was released on VEVO on February 13. On November 16,2016, Nick Cannon released his second mixtape The Gospel of Ike Turn Up, prior to the release of the mixtape, a music video for the single If I Was Your Man was released on November 7,2016. The song features Jeremih and the video features a cameo appearance by Chili of TLC. On December 2,2016, Nick Cannon released a single called Hold On on iTunes, in 2005, Cannon created, produced, and hosted the MTV improv comedy series Wild N Out
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Modelland
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Modelland is a young adult novel written by model Tyra Banks, published in 2011. Along the way she meets a girl named Dylan, a 47 girl named Shiraz. Publishers Weekly considered the book overlong, campy and warped, and a barrage of surrealism and wackiness. Banks has said that the inspiration for Modelland happened one day while she driving down on a street in New York City and she had been thinking about why supermodels are super and the idea of Modelland came to mind. I wrote them down in a little notepad and, five years, thousands of pages and dozens of writing getaways later, Modelland is the first installment of a proposed trilogy. Modelland website at Random House Teens
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Time (magazine)
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Time is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was founded in 1923 and for decades was dominated by Henry Luce, a European edition is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong, the South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney, Australia. In December 2008, Time discontinued publishing a Canadian advertiser edition, Time has the worlds largest circulation for a weekly news magazine, and has a readership of 26 million,20 million of which are based in the United States. As of 2012, it had a circulation of 3.3 million making it the eleventh most circulated magazine in the United States reception room circuit, as of 2015, its circulation was 3,036,602. Richard Stengel was the editor from May 2006 to October 2013. Nancy Gibbs has been the editor since October 2013. Time magazine was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, the two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor respectively of the Yale Daily News. They first called the proposed magazine Facts and they wanted to emphasize brevity, so that a busy man could read it in an hour. They changed the name to Time and used the slogan Take Time–Its Brief and it set out to tell the news through people, and for many decades the magazines cover depicted a single person. More recently, Time has incorporated People of the Year issues which grew in popularity over the years, notable mentions of them were Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Matej Turk, etc. The first issue of Time was published on March 3,1923, featuring Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, on its cover, a facsimile reprint of Issue No. 1, including all of the articles and advertisements contained in the original, was included with copies of the February 28,1938 issue as a commemoration of the magazines 15th anniversary. The cover price was 15¢ On Haddens death in 1929, Luce became the dominant man at Time, the Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923–1941. In 1929, Roy Larsen was also named a Time Inc. director, J. P. Morgan retained a certain control through two directorates and a share of stocks, both over Time and Fortune. Other shareholders were Brown Brothers W. A. Harriman & Co. the Intimate History of a Changing Enterprise 1957–1983. According to the September 10,1979 issue of The New York Times, after Time magazine began publishing its weekly issues in March 1923, Roy Larsen was able to increase its circulation by utilizing U. S. radio and movie theaters around the world. It often promoted both Time magazine and U. S. political and corporate interests, Larsen next arranged for a 30-minute radio program, The March of Time, to be broadcast over CBS, beginning on March 6,1931
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Genealogical DNA test
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A genealogical DNA test looks at a persons genome at specific locations for the purposes of determining ethnicity and genealogical relationships. Results give information about ethnic groups the tested may be descended from, in general, they do not give information about medical conditions or diseases. Several types of genealogical DNA tests are available, with each looking at a different part of the genome, taking a genealogical DNA test requires the submission of a DNA sample. The most common way to collect a DNA sample, which can be done by visiting a DNA test clinic or by ordering a home test through an independent DNA test supplier, is by a cheek-scraping. Other methods include spit-cups, mouthwash, and chewing gum, after collection, the sample is mailed to a testing lab. Some laboratories, such as FamilyTreeDNA, offer to store DNA samples for ease of future testing, there are three major types of genealogical DNA tests, Autosomal and X-DNA, Y-DNA and mtDNA. Autosomal tests look at Chromosomes 1-22 and X, the automsomes are inherited from both parents and all recent ancestors. The X-chromsome follows a special inheritance pattern. Ethnicity estimates are included with this sort of testing. Y-DNA looks at the Y-Chromosome, which is inherited father to son, mtDNA looks at the mitochondria, which is inherited from mother to child and so can be used to explore ones direct maternal line. Y-DNA and mtDNA cannot be used for ethnicity estimates, but can be used to find ones haplogroup, Autosomal DNA is the 22 pairs of chromosomes that do not contribute to sex. These are inherited exactly equally from both parents and roughly equally from grandparents to about 3x great-grand parents, inheritance is more random and unequal from more distant ancestors. Generally, a genealogical DNA test might test about 700,000 SNPs, like mtDNA and Y-DNA SNPs, autosomal SNPs are changes at a single point in genetic code. Therefore, the number of markers shared with a specific ancestor decreases by about half each generation, the major component of an autosomal DNA test is matching other individuals. Where two individuals share in common a number of consecutive SNPs, it can be projected that they share a segment of DNA at that part of their genomes. If the segment is longer than an amount set by the testing company. The unit for segments of DNA is the centimorgan, for comparison, a full human genome is about 6500 cMs. Most companies will show the customers how many cMs they share, some more distant cousins will not match at all Various advanced techniques and analysis can be done on this data. This includes features such as In-common/Shared Matches, Chromosome Browsers and Triangulation and this analysis is often required if DNA evidence is being used to prove or disprove a specific relationship
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Paris Fashion Week
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Paris Fashion Week is a series of designer presentations held biannually in Paris, France with spring/summer and autumn/winter events held each year. Dates are determined by the French Fashion Federation, Fashion Week is held at venues throughout the city. In addition to shows, there are mens and haute couture shows. Paris Fashion Week is part of the global Big 4 fashion weeks, the schedule begins with New York, followed by London, and then Milan and ends in Paris. Although the first fashion week was held in New York, the event itself derives from salon shows in Paris couture salons, a fashion week consists of a week of organized events of multiple designer’s collections. Before this organized event was recognized in New York City, fashion showings were being held in Paris as early as the 1700s and these early showings were only to clients purchasing items and were shown on mannequins. In the 1800s, showings began to change, Charles Frederick Worth, noted for haute couture, began showing multiple pieces together and of a higher design. Jeanne Paquin is the first designer to make her showings public, Haute Couture, the style of high sewing, was created by Englishman Charles Frederick Worth. In the mid 1800s Mme Pauline von Metternich, an Austrian Princess and wife to the Ambassador of Paris, saw one of Worth’s sketches and employed him to make her a gown. He gained much recognition through his powerful clients and opened his own couture house in Paris in 1858. In 1868 the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture was created to set the specifications to determine what constituted a ‘couture house’. To ensure the copyright of the designers, their creations were photographed on a model or mannequin from the front, back, in 1945 the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture established another set of rules to regulate and determine Haute Couture houses. Others included having at least 20 members on staff, and that every design must include fittings, the first recognized Paris Fashion Week was held in 1973 and organized Haute Couture, Ready-to-Wear, and Men’s Fashion into one grouped showing by the Fédération Française de la Couture. The event was a fundraiser held at the Palace of Versailles to restore the palace, the amount aimed to reach to repair the palace was estimated at $60 million USD which converts to 53,026,956 Euros. The fundraiser was started because the French government had stated they could not handle the cost of the renovations. It was overseen by the founder of New York Press Week, now known as New York Fashion Week, Eleanor Lambert, in accordance with, the at the time Versailles curator, Gereld van der Kemp. The restorations and renovations included Marie Antoinette’s dressing room, Louis XV’s children’s play room, both American and Parisian designers attended the event including, Anne Klein, Bill Blass, Stephen Burrows, Oscar de la Renta, Hubert de Givenchy, and Yves Saint Laurent. The French designer’s each held their own showing set to various themes whose pieces included, a ship, pumpkin coach
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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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Elle (magazine)
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Elle is a worldwide lifestyle magazine of French origin that focuses on fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the worlds best-selling fashion magazine and it was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means she or her, Elle was founded in France in 1945. In the 1960s, it was considered to not so much reflect fashion as decree it, with 800,000 loyal readers, in 1981, Daniel Filipacchi and Jean-Luc Lagardère purchased Hachette magazines, which included the then-struggling Elle. Elle was then launched in the U. S, the Chinese version of the magazine was published in 1988, and is the only edition which is published twice monthly. In 2007 the website of Elle was launched, among its past editors is Jean-Dominique Bauby, who became known for writing a book after suffering almost total paralysis. Elle is the worlds largest fashion magazine, with 43 international editions in over 60 countries, technologically speaking, the Elle brand is a global network encompassing over 33 websites. Subscriptions account for 73 percent of readers, there are 33 Elle websites globally, which collectively attract over 25 million unique visitors and 370 million page views per month. The magazine reaches over 69 million readers, the vast majority of Elles audience are women between the ages of 18 and 49. Its readers have an age of 34.7 years. Forty percent of the readers are single, and the household income is $69,973. Our readers are young enough to think about life as an adventure and old enough to have the means to live it, said Roberta Myers, the first international edition of Elle was launched in Japan in 1969. Then, its U. S. and UK editions were launched in 1985, next year, the magazine was first published in Spain. In 1987, Elle began to be published in Hong Kong, in 1988, the magazine was launched in six countries, namely Germany, Brazil, China, Sweden, Greece and Portugal. Next year it was first published in the Netherlands and Quebec, in 1990, the magazine was started in Australia and Taiwan. Its Russian edition, published monthly, was launched in 1996, Elle is owned by the Lagardère Group of France. It is published in the U. S, in China, the publisher is Shanghai Translation Publishing House. And in India its owned and published by Ogaan Publications Pvt, in December 2013, Elle hired Randy Minor as design director
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Harper's Bazaar
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Harpers Bazaar is an American womens fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harpers Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the resource for women who are the first to buy the best. Writers Alice Meynell, Daisy Fellowes, Gloria Guinness, and Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, when Harpers Bazaar began publication, it was a weekly magazine catering to women in the middle and upper classes. It showcased fashion from Germany and Paris in a newspaper-design format and it was not until 1901 that Harpers moved to a monthly issued magazine which it maintains today. Now Harpers Bazaar is owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation in the U. S. harper & Brothers founded the magazine. This company also gave birth to Harpers Magazine and HarperCollins Publishing, glenda Bailey is the editor-in-chief of U. S. edition of Harpers Bazaar. As the turn-of-the-century began in America, Harpers Bazaar began featuring both illustrations and photographs for its covers and inside features of society and increasingly of fashion. During the late Victorian period, as the suffrage movement was gaining momentum. Bazaar also began profiling prominent socialites, such as the Astors, in 1933, editor-in-chief Carmel Snow brought photojournalist Martin Munkacsi to a windswept beach to shoot a swimwear spread. As the model ran toward the camera, Munkacsi took the picture that made fashion-magazine history, until that moment, nearly all fashion was carefully staged on mannequin-like models in a studio. Snows buoyant spirit and wicked sense of adventure brought life to the pages of Bazaar, Snows genius came from cultivating the best people. Her first big find was art director Alexey Brodovitch, who innovated Bazaars iconic Didot logo, Snow also unleashed the force of nature known as Diana Vreeland, whom she brought on as fashion editor in 1936. The collaboration of these four visionaries resulted in some of the germane fashion shoots of the 20th century and ended only with Snows retirement, at the age of 70, throughout his career at the magazine, Brodovitch, a Russian émigré, revolutionized magazine design. With his directive Astonish me, he inspired some of the greatest visual artists of the 20th century, one of his assistants was future Rolling Stone art director Tony Lane. Sadly, Brodovitchs personal life was less triumphant, plagued by alcoholism, he left Bazaar in 1958 and eventually moved to the south of France, where he died in 1971. Diana, who is said to have invented the word pizzazz, before long, she became fashion editor, collaborating with photographers Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Richard Avedon and, later, art director Henry Wolf. Her eccentricity, perception and wit, as well as her sharp wit and sweeping pronouncements, were memorialized in the movie Funny Face, making her, for many, Richard Avedon began creating fashion portfolios for Harpers Bazaar at the age of 22. His distinctive photographs showed both chic insouciance and boundless vitality, avedons women leapt off curbs, roller-skated on the Place de la Concorde, and were seen in nightclubs, enjoying the freedom and fashions of the postwar era
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V (American magazine)
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V magazine is an American fashion magazine published since 1999. The magazine is printed seasonally and highlights trends in fashion, film, music, a mens fashion quarterly entitled VMAN started as an offshoot in 2003. V magazine was launched in September 1999 as the younger sibling publication to the limited-edition quarterly Visionaire, if Visionaire was seen as more of an exclusive haute-couture book, V was going to be the vibrant, less formal, more accessible, ready-to-wear alternative. V releases four issues a year, one for each current seasonal collection, Spring Preview, Fall Preview, Winter Preview, the magazine has a readership of 315,000 as of 2010. V is edited by Stephen Gan and features new American fashion displayed through shoots and editorials focusing more specifically on art, film, music, V has been noted for its inventive and progressive styling, as well as its reportage of cultural figures and global youth culture. Past contributors have included Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Hedi Slimane, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, interview subjects have included Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Robert Altman, Brooke Shields, and Norman Mailer. Icons in fashion, film, music and art to grace the cover include Madonna, Katy Perry, Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Naomi Campbell, Grace Jones, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears, David Bowie and Lady Gaga. In 2005, 7L and Steidl published the book V Best, Five Years of V Magazine, included are popular and successful fashion articles, photos, interviews and more from the first five years of V. In 2016, Lady Gaga was invited to be the guest editor for V for its 99th issue, in March 2016, it was revealed that Britney Spears was selected to appear on the cover of the magazine for its 100th issue. Spears shot three different covers for the issue with photographer Mario Testino. The January 2010 issue of V magazine entitled The Size Issue featured a variety of plus sized models and this edition printed two different covers, one with plus sized Precious star Gabourey Sidibe, while the other featured the petite actress Dakota Fanning. One criticism of the issue argues that the intentions were to juxtapose big. However, others embraced the magazines bold statement and commended V on its efforts to modernize the beauty standard, in 2005, 7L and Steidl published the book V Best, Five Years of V Magazine, chronicling the first five years of the publication. In the September 2008 issue of American Photo Magazine, V magazine photographer Nick Knight was featured for the photo spread Wildflowers that he shot for the March 2008 issue of V. The V Magazine website consists of multiple different navigational links such as, blog, magazine, fashion, articles, photo, the website contains features from the current issue as well as extras and exclusive outtakes that did not get put into the final printing of the magazine. Other interactive technological features on V’s website include the magazines Twitter stream, blog, VMAN magazine featuring mens clothing is an offshoot of V magazine. Established in 2003, it is published quarterly by Visionaire Publishing, also responsible for V, VMAN promotes everyone from unknown up-and-comers to globally recognized celebrities. The magazines target audience caters to the modern, urbanized man interested in whats new in fashion, art, music, travel, list of V magazine cover models V magazine VMAN magazine V-Agency
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W (magazine)
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W is a monthly American fashion magazine published by Condé Nast, who purchased original owner Fairchild Publications in 1999. It was created in 1971 by the publisher of sister magazine Womens Wear Daily, the magazine is an oversize format – ten inches wide and thirteen inches tall. Stefano Tonchi is the editor of W, Lucy Kriz is the vice president, W magazine has a reader base of nearly half a million,469,000 of which are annual subscribers. 80 percent of the readers are female and have an average household income of $135,840. Often the subject of controversy, W magazine has featured stories, in July 2005, W produced a 60-page Steven Klein portfolio of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt entitled Domestic Bliss. Other controversial issues include Steven Meisels shoot entitled Asexual Revolution, in male and female models are depicted in gender-bending styles. In addition, Tom Fords racy shoot with Steven Klein and the article on sexuality in fashion came as a shock to some loyal readers. During the interview, Ford is quoted as saying Ive always been about pansexuality, whether Im sleeping with girls or not at this point in my life, the clothes have often been androgynous, which is very much my standard of beauty. Steven Klein also was the photographer for the photo shoot featured in the August 2007 issue, showcasing David. Bruce Weber produced a 60-page tribute to New Orleans in the April 2008 issue, most of Ws most memorable covers are featured on the W Classics page on the magazines website. W is also known for its coverage of American and European society, in 2011, Steven Meisel created controversy again by promoting fake advertisements throughout the November issue of the magazine. In 2013, Meisel shoot RuPauls Drag Race Season 3/NY Socialite Carmen Carrera in an editorial called Show girl, in 2013, the magazine started combining the January/December and June/July issues so as to free up money to invest in the magazines digital brand. Citrano later challenged this claim by Moore by offering $5,000 to charity, if Moore could prove that the photo she provided was the original photo from the shoot
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Vanity Fair (magazine)
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Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States. The first version of Vanity Fair was published from 1913 to 1936, the imprint was revived in 1983, and came to include four European editions of the magazine. The current editor is Graydon Carter, Condé Montrose Nast began his empire by purchasing the mens fashion magazine Dress in 1913. He renamed the magazine Dress and Vanity Fair and published four issues in 1913 and it continued to thrive into the twenties. However, it became a casualty of the Great Depression and declining advertising revenues, although its circulation, Condé Nast announced in December 1935 that Vanity Fair would be folded into Vogue as of the March 1936 issue. Condé Nast Publications, under the ownership of S. I. Newhouse, the first issue was released in February 1983, edited by Richard Locke, formerly of The New York Times Book Review. After three issues, Locke was replaced by Leo Lerman, veteran features editor of Vogue and he was followed by editors Tina Brown and Graydon Carter. Regular writers columnists have included Dominick Dunne, Sebastian Junger, Michael Wolff, Maureen Orth and Christopher Hitchens. Amongst the most famous of these was the August 1991 Leibovitz cover featuring a naked, pregnant Demi Moore, in addition to its controversial photography, the magazine also prints articles on a variety of topics. In 1996, journalist Marie Brenner wrote an exposé on the tobacco industry titled The Man Who Knew Too Much, the article was later adapted into a movie The Insider, which starred Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. S. The magazine also features interviews with celebrities, including a monthly Proust Questionnaire. The magazine was the subject of Toby Youngs book, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, about his search for success, from 1995, the book has been made into a movie, with Jeff Bridges playing Carter. There are currently five international editions of Vanity Fair being published, namely in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, the British Vanity Fair was first published in 1991. The Italian Vanity Fair was established in October 2003 and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2013, Vanity Fair Germany launched in February 2007 at a cost of €50 million, then the most expensive new magazine in Germany in years and Condé Nasts biggest investment outside the United States. After circulation had plummeted from half a million to less than 200,000 per week, a French version started in June 2013. The Spanish version of the magazine was first published in Spain in 2008, in April 2015 Condé Nast México y Latinoamerica was to launch Vanity Fair Mexico. As a successor to a similar invitation-only event annually held by the late agent Irving Paul Lazar, during its first years, the magazines Oscar party was co-hosted by producer Steve Tisch at Mortons in West Hollywood. At first, editor Graydon Carter kept the invitation list small, between 2009 and 2013, the party was held at Sunset Tower
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Cosmopolitan (magazine)
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Cosmopolitan is an international fashion magazine for women. Often referred to as Cosmo, its content as of 2011 includes articles on issues, relationships, sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, fashion. Published by Hearst Corporation, Cosmopolitan has 64 international editions, is printed in 35 languages, Cosmopolitan began as a family magazine, launched in 1886 by Schlicht & Field of New York as The Cosmopolitan. There was also a department for the members of the family. Cosmopolitans circulation reached 25,000 that year, but by November 1888, John Brisben Walker acquired the magazine in 1889. That same year, he dispatched Elizabeth Bisland on a race around the world against Nellie Bly to draw attention to his magazine. Under John Brisben Walkers ownership, E. D. Walker, formerly with Harpers Monthly, took over as the new editor, introducing colour illustrations, serials and book reviews. It became a market for fiction, featuring such authors as Annie Besant, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Willa Cather. The magazines circulation climbed to 75,000 by 1892, in 1897, Cosmopolitan announced plans for a free correspondence school, No charge of any kind will be made to the student. All expenses for the present will be borne by the Cosmopolitan, No conditions, except a pledge of a given number of hours of study. When 20,000 immediately signed up, Walker could not fund the school, also in 1897, H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds was serialized, as was his The First Men in the Moon. Olive Schreiner contributed an article about the Boer War. And Colorado - New Tricks in an Old Game, Jack Londons novella, The Red One, was published in the October 1918 issue, and a constant presence from 1910-18 was Arthur B. Reeve, with 82 stories featuring Craig Kennedy, the scientific detective, Magazine illustrators included Francis Attwood, Dean Cornwell, Harrison Fisher, and James Montgomery Flagg. Hearst formed Cosmopolitan Productions, a company based in New York City from 1918 to 1923, then Hollywood until 1938. Cosmopolitan magazine was titled as Hearsts International Combined with Cosmopolitan from 1925 until 1952. In 1911, Hearst had bought a middling monthly magazine called World To-Day, in June 1914 it was shortened to Hearsts and was ultimately titled Hearsts International in May 1922. In order to spare serious cutbacks at San Simeon, Hearst merged the magazine Hearsts International with Cosmopolitan effective March 1925, after Hearst died in 1951, the Hearsts International disappeared from the magazine cover altogether in April 1952
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Seventeen (American magazine)
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Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. The magazines reader base is 10-to-21-year-old females and it began as a publication geared towards inspiring teen girls to become model workers and citizens. Soon after its debut, Seventeen took a more fashion and romance-oriented approach in presenting its material while promoting self-confidence in young women and it was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenbergs Triangle Publications. The first editor of Seventeen, Helen Valentine, provided teenage girls with working woman role models, Seventeen enhanced the role of teenagers as consumers of popular culture. The concept of teenager as a distinct demographic originated in that era, in July 1944, King Features Syndicate began running the comic strip Teena, created by cartoonist Hilda Terry, in which a typical teenagers life was examined. Teena ran internationally in newspapers for twenty years, from 1945 to 1946, the magazine surveyed teen girls in order to better understand the magazines audience. The magazine became an important source of information to manufacturers seeking guidance on how to satisfy demand among teenagers. Today, the magazine entertains as well as promotes self-confidence in young women, sylvia Plath submitted nearly fifty pieces to Seventeen before her first short story, And Summer Will Not Come Again, was accepted and published in the August 1950 issue. Joyce Walker became the first black model to be featured on the cover of Seventeen magazine in July 1971, in the early 1980s, Whitney Houston was also featured on the cover of the magazine. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988 and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991, primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. Seventeen remains popular on newsstands today despite greater competition, in 2010, writer Jamie Keiles conducted The Seventeen Magazine Project, an experiment in which she followed the advice of Seventeen magazine for thirty days. In 2012, in response to protests against the magazines airbrushing its models photos. In August 2016, Michelle Tan was fired from her position as Editor in Chief while she was on maternity leave and it was announced shortly thereafter that Michele Promaulayko, who was appointed Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan, would also serve as Seventeens editorial director. Starting with their Dec/Jan 2017 issue, the magazine was to publishing only six issues a year instead of ten. The South African edition of Seventeen magazine is published by 8 Ink Media based in Cape Town, the Philippine version is published by Summit Media, but it ceased publication in April 2009. The Hispanic American edition is published by Editorial Televisa, the Indian edition is published by Apricot Publications Pvt. The Malaysian version of Seventeen is published by Bluinc, Seventeen Singapore is published by SPH Magazines. The Thai edition of Seventeen is published by Media Transasia Limited in Bangkok, in the United Kingdom there is no Seventeen magazine, but there is a similar magazine recently touted as a fresher and edgier competition to Teen Vogue called Company
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Teen Vogue
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Teen Vogue is a US magazine which was launched in 2004 as a sister publication to Vogue, targeted at teenage girls. Like Vogue, it includes stories about fashion and celebrities, since 2015, the magazine has moved its focus away from shopping and fashion features into more topical content, including politics and current affairs. Teen Vogue was established in 2003, as a spinoff of Vogue, the magazine is published in a smaller 6¾x9 format to afford it more visibility on shelves and some flexibility getting into a digest size slot at checkout stands. In May 2016, Elaine Welteroth was appointed as editor, replacing the founding editor-in-chief Amy Astley and her appointment at 29 saw her become the youngest editor-in-chief in Condé Nasts history, and the second African-American. She works closely with digital editorial director Phillip Picardi and creative director Marie Suter, in November 2016, it was announced Teen Vogue would start publishing quarterly, following the Dec/Jan 2017 issue. In December 2016, the published an opinion article by Lauren Duca. List of Teen Vogue cover models Official website Teen Vogue – magazine profile at Fashion Model Directory
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Chanel
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Chanel S. A. is a French, privately held company owned by Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, who was an early business partner of the couturière Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel. Chanel S. A. is a fashion house that specializes in haute couture and ready-to-wear clothes, luxury goods. In her youth, Gabrielle Chanel gained the nickname Coco from her time as a chanteuse, the House of Chanel is known for the little black dress, the perfume No.5 de Chanel, and the Chanel Suit. Chanel’s use of jersey fabric produced garments that were comfortable and affordable, Chanel used colors traditionally associated with masculinity in Europe, such as grey and navy blue, to denote feminine boldness of character. An example of haute couture techniques is the woolen Chanel suit — a knee-length skirt. The complementary accessories were two-tone pump shoes and jewellry, usually a necklace of pearls, Coco Chanel thus could sell to them the hats she designed and made, she thus earned a living, independent of her financial sponsor, the socialite Balsan. Despite that social circumstance, Boy Capel perceived the businesswoman innate to Coco Chanel, because that locale already housed a dress shop, the business-lease limited Chanel to selling only millinery products, not couture. The First World War affected European fashion through scarcity of materials, in 1915 and in 1917, Harper’s Bazaar magazine reported that the garments of the House of Chanel were on the list of every buyer for the clothing factories of Europe. After the First World War, the House of Chanel, following the trends of the 1920s, produced beaded dresses. Originally, a bottle of No.5 de Chanel was a gift to clients of Chanel, the popularity of the perfume prompted the House of Chanel to offer it for retail sale in 1922. In 1923, to explain the success of her clothes, Coco Chanel told Harper’s Bazaar magazine that design simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance, business partners — late 1920s The success of the No. To that end, the businessman Théophile Bader introduced the venture capitalist Pierre Wertheimer to Coco Chanel, moreover, by 1937, the House of Chanel had expanded the range of its clothes to more women, and presented prêt-à-porter clothes designed and cut for the petite woman. Among fashion designers only the clothes created by Elsa Schiaparelli could compete with the clothes of Chanel. A. at 31 rue Cambon, meanwhile, because of the Nazi occupation’s official anti-Semitism, Pierre Wertheimer and family, had fled France to the U. S. in mid-1940. Later, in 1941, Coco Chanel attempted to assume control of Parfums Chanel. Occupied France abounded with rumours that Coco Chanel was a Nazi collaborator, her identity was secret agent 7124 of the Abwehr. At War’s end, upon the Allied liberation of France, Chanel was arrested for having collaborated with the Nazis, in Switzerland, the news revived Coco Chanel’s resentment at having been exploited by her business partner, for only ten per cent of the money. So she established a rival Swiss parfumerie to create, produce, in exchange Gabrielle Chanel closed her Swiss parfumerie enterprise, and sold to Parfums Chanel the full rights to the name Coco Chanel. As a post–War fashion that used some 20 yards of fabric, having decided to do business with Coco Chanel, Wertheimer’s negotiations to fund the resurgence of the House of Chanel, granted him commercial rights to all Chanel-brand products
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Oscar de la Renta
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Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo, known professionally as Oscar de la Renta, was a Dominican-American fashion designer. Born in Santo Domingo, he was trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga, De la Renta became internationally known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers who dressed Jacqueline Kennedy. An award-winning designer, he worked for Lanvin and Balmain and his eponymous fashion house continues to dress leading figures, from film stars to royalty. The Fiallos, De la Rentas mothers family, were so embedded in Dominican society that they could count poets, scholars and their origin in the island can be traced back to the foundation of San Carlos de Tenerife in 1685 by Canarian settlers. A maternal uncle, Luis Arístides Fiallo Cabral, was a doctor, lawyer, and architect, another maternal uncle, Fabio Fiallo, was a diplomat and poet. On his fathers side, De la Rentas great-great grandfather José Ortíz de la Renta, was the first mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico elected by popular vote. He had the distinction of serving as mayor eight times, the most ever — 1812–1814, 1815–1816, 1820–1821, 1823–1826, 1837–1838, 1842–1843, and 1843–1844, De la Renta was raised Catholic in a protective family. His mother died from complications of multiple sclerosis when he was 18, at the age of 18, he went to study painting in Spain at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. For extra money, he drew clothes for newspapers and fashion houses. After Francesca Lodge, the wife of John Davis Lodge, the U. S. Ambassador to Spain, saw some of his dress sketches, the dress appeared on the cover of Life magazine that fall. He considered Cristóbal Balenciaga his mentor, in 1961, de la Renta left Spain to join Antonio del Castillo as a couture assistant at Lanvin in Paris. In 1963, de la Renta turned to Diana Vreeland, the editor-in-chief of Vogue for advice, saying that what he wanted was to get into ready to wear. Vreeland replied, Then go to Arden because you make your reputation faster. She is not a designer, so she will promote you, at the other place, you will always be eclipsed by the name of Dior. De la Renta proceeded to work for Arden for two years in New York City before he went to work for Jane Derby, an American fashion house, when Derby died in August 1965, de la Renta took over the label. From 1993 to 2002, de la Renta designed the haute couture collection for the house of Balmain, in 2006, the Oscar de la Renta label diversified into bridal wear. De la Rentas designs have been worn by a group of distinguished women. De la Rentas brand saw international wholesale growth beginning in 2003, under the direction of CEO Alex Bolen, De la Rentas ready-to-wear designs are available in his retail stores, online, and with select wholesale partners worldwide
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Yves Saint Laurent (brand)
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL is a French luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé. Saint Laurent Paris revived its haute couture collection in 2015 under creative director Hedi Slimane, the new collection, Yves Saint Laurent Couture or Saint Laurent Paris 24, Rue de L’Université is the French houses first couture collection ever since the retirement of its legendary founder in 2002. Founded in 1961 it has considered one of the worlds most prominent fashion houses and known for its modern and iconic pieces. Today Saint Laurent Paris markets a range of womens and mens ready-to-wear products, leather goods, shoes. Yves Saint Laurent Beauté also has a presence in the luxury beauty market. Competitors to Yves Saint Laurent include, among many, the houses of Chanel, Burberry, Dior, Gucci, Louis Vuitton. The eponymous brand was founded by designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé in 1961, some of his most memorable collections include the Pop Art, Ballet Russes, Picasso, and Chinese ones. He also started mainstreaming the idea of wearing silhouettes from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s and he was the first, in 1966, to popularize ready-to-wear in an attempt to democratize fashion, with Rive Gauche and a boutique of the same name. Ambassador to the couturier during the late 1970s and early 1980s was London socialite millionairess Diane Vandelli, making the brand more popular among the European jet-set. The brand continued to expand in the 1980s and early 1990s with fragrances for men and women, having launched its cosmetic line in 1978. However, by 1992 the companys profits were declining and the share price had fallen. In 1993, the Saint Laurent fashion house was sold to the pharmaceuticals company Sanofi, in the 1998–1999 seasons, Alber Elbaz, formerly of Lanvin, designed three ready-to-wear collections. Pierre Bergé appointed Hedi Slimane as collections and art director in 1997, Hedi Slimane decided to leave the house two years later, and became head of couture menswear at Dior Homme. In 1999, Gucci bought the YSL brand and asked Tom Ford to design the collection while Saint Laurent would design the haute couture collection. In 2002, dogged by years of health, drug abuse, depression, alcoholism. Reflecting on his career and impact on the industry, Saint Laurent was heavily quoted around the world for stating, Chanel freed women. Saint Laurent also stated, I created the contemporary womans wardrobe, the prêt-à-porter line was produced under the direction of Stefano Pilati after Tom Ford left in 2004. His style was decidedly more French than the overtly sexy image that Tom Ford propagated
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Anna Sui
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Anna Sui is an American fashion designer from Detroit. Her brand categories include several fashion lines, footwear, cosmetics, fragrances, eyewear, jewelry, accessories, home goods, Anna Sui products are sold through her free-standing stores and distributors around the world in over 50 countries. In 2006, Fortune estimated the value of Suis fashion empire at over $400 million. Her paternal grandparents were Xiao Yu Lan, a Tahitian-Chinese businessman and her maternal grandparents were Fang Chih, a Chinese diplomat and his wife Fang Ih-chi. Sui is a descendant of the Fang family of Tongcheng, Anhui. She is an 18th generation descendant of Fang Bao, an influential Chinese poet who founded the Tongcheng School of literary prose popular throughout the Qing Empire. Notable ancestors also include Fang Gongcheng, tutor of the imperial palace, by the time she was four years old, Sui knew she wanted to be a fashion designer. Suis mother, taught her about putting together a wardrobe, bringing a young Sui with her to shop for fabrics, Sui would spend hours watching her mother sew and would collect the fabric scraps to clothe her Barbie dolls and her brothers army action figures. Through this process, Sui learned the basics of making clothing and this was done by her buying pattern pieces for the sleeves of a dress, and swapping them to match other dresses, to create her own look for the garments. Sui credits reading this article as a moment in her youth. Sui moved to New York and attended Parsons, Suis work as a stylist for Meisels shoots featured in the Italian magazine Lei specifically were very well received. After the closing of Charlies Girls, Sui worked for several other designers including Bobbie Brooks. During this time, she began designing and making out of her apartment. Sui stated that she was inspired to branch out on her own by a desire to rock stars. Indeed, during this period, the majority of her business was focused on targeting sales to music stores. While working for the sportswear company Glenora, she brought her collection of five pieces to a New York trade show, a few weeks later, those clothes were featured in a New York Times advertisement. The manager at Glenora, where Sui was still on the payroll, was furious when he saw the advertisement in The Times, left without a job, Sui took her $300 in savings and started a business out of a little corner in her apartments living room. For several years, Sui ran the company out of her apartment, doing odd-jobs for spare income, the 1980s was the height of power-dressing, with companies such as Chanel, Lacroix and Versace setting the standard
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Christian Dior
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Christian Dior was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the worlds top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior, which is now owned by Groupe Arnault. Christian Dior was born in Granville, a town on the coast of Normandy. He was the second of five born to Maurice Dior, a wealthy fertilizer manufacturer. He had four siblings, Raymond, Jacqueline, Bernard, when Christian was about five years old, the family moved to Paris, but still returned to the Normandy coast for summer holidays. Diors family had hoped he would become a diplomat, but Dior was artistic, to make money, he sold his fashion sketches outside his house for about 10 cents each. In 1928, Dior left school and received money from his father to finance a small art gallery, where he, from 1937, Dior was employed by the fashion designer Robert Piguet, who gave him the opportunity to design for three Piguet collections. Dior would later say that Robert Piguet taught me the virtues of simplicity through which true elegance must come, one of his original designs for Piguet, a day dress with a short, full skirt called Cafe Anglais, was particularly well received. Whilst at Piguet, Dior worked alongside Pierre Balmain, and was succeeded as house designer by Marc Bohan – who would, in 1960, Dior left Piguet when he was called up for military service. In 1942, when Dior left the army, he joined the house of Lucien Lelong. In 1946 Marcel Boussac, an entrepreneur known as the richest man in France, invited Dior to design for Philippe et Gaston. Dior refused, wishing to make a fresh start under his own rather than reviving an old brand. On 8 December 1946, with Boussacs backing, Dior founded his fashion house. The actual name of the line of his first collection, presented on 12 February 1947, was Corolle, but the phrase New Look was coined for it by Carmel Snow, the editor-in-chief of Harpers Bazaar. Diors designs were more voluptuous than the boxy, fabric-conserving shapes of the recent World War II styles and he was a master at creating shapes and silhouettes, Dior is quoted as saying I have designed flower women. Initially, women protested because his designs covered up their legs, there was also some backlash to Diors designs due to the amount of fabrics used in a single dress or suit. During one photo shoot in a Paris market, the models were attacked by female vendors over this profligacy, the New Look revolutionized womens dress and reestablished Paris as the centre of the fashion world after World War II. Christian Dior died while on holiday in Montecatini, Italy on 24 October 1957, some reports say that he died of a heart attack after choking on a fish bone. Times obituary stated that he died of an attack after playing a game of cards
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Donna Karan
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Donna Karan, also known under the alias DK, is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels. Karan was born Donna Ivy Faske to mother Helen and father Gabby Faske in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the Borough of Queens, Karans mother had been a model and had also worked in designer Chester Weinbergs showroom. Her father was a tailor and haberdasher who died when Donna was three years old, Karan and her older sister Gail were raised by their mother in Woodmere, in the Five Towns region of Nassau County, New York. She graduated from Hewlett High School in 1966, and then went to the Parsons School of Design, after leaving college, Karan worked for Anne Klein, eventually becoming head of the Anne Klein design-team, where she remained until 1985, when she launched her Donna Karan label. Karan began her career as an assistant designer with Anne Klein in the late 1960s, as Kleins assistant, Karan was a participant in The Battle of Versailles Fashion Show on November 28,1973. When Klein herself died in 1974, Takihyo Corporation of Japan became the new owner and Karan, together with her classmate and friend Louis DellOllio. In 1984, Karan left Anne Klein and, together with her then husband Stephan Weiss and Takihyo Corporation and she showed her first womens clothing collection in 1985. Karan always insisted that she would only design clothes, like jersey dresses and opaque Lycra tights, in 1988, Karan, nicknamed The Queen Of Seventh Avenue, extended her womens Donna Karan New York line by creating a less expensive clothing line for younger women, called DKNY. Two years later, she created DKNY Jeans, a denim-inspired collection, DKNY for men was launched in 1992, one year after the Signature line for men had been presented. Karan left her CEO position in 1997, but continued as chairwoman, after 2002 Karans designer contributions became less and less. In August 2008, Karan relaunched her discontinued fragrance lines from the 1990s, in 2015, Donna Karan announced that she would be stepping down as head of her eponymous company to focus on her lifestyle brand, Urban Zen, established by Karan in 2007. Urban Zen embraces conscious consumerism, a harmony of philanthropy and commerce, Urban Zen offers artisan objects of desire globally curated from Donna’s travels, signature Karan-designed apparel, accessories, art and exclusive handmade Balinese furniture. Fashion icon and humanitarian Donna Karan believes through creativity, collaboration, connection and this conviction lies at the heart of Urban Zen and its Foundation, established in 2007. The foundation is dedicated to three initiatives, preservation of culture and bringing mind, body and spirit to healthcare and education. The Urban Zen Center in New York is the Foundation’s home, a place, the groundbreaking Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Program integrates eastern healing modalities with western science, with over 700 certified therapists working throughout the country. This initiative is close to Karan’s heart, as it was inspired by her experience with the healthcare system during her husband’s battle with lung cancer. In 2010, in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, Urban Zen launched Hope, Help & Relief Haiti in collaboration with leaders in music, fashion, film, finance and art. To further advance that goal, Karan collaborated with her alma mater, Parsons School of Design, in 2016, immediately following Hurricane Matthew, the Urban Zen Foundation collaborated with on the ground partners to deliver critical aid in the form of emergency kits
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Calvin Klein
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Calvin Klein Inc. is an American fashion house founded by the fashion designer Calvin Klein. The company is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and is owned by PVH. In 1968, Klein founded Calvin Klein Limited, a shop in the York Hotel in New York City. The first Calvin Klein collection was a line of youthful, understated coats, in September 1969, Klein appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine. By 1971, Klein had added sportswear, classic blazers, in 1973, he received his first Coty American Fashion Critics Award for his 74-piece womenswear collection - the youngest recipient at that time. Klein won the award again in 1974 and 1975, by 1977, annual revenues had increased to $30 million, and Klein had licenses for scarves, shoes, belts, furs, sunglasses, and sheets. Klein and Schwartz were making $4 million each, after the company signed licenses for cosmetics, jeans, and menswear, Kleins annual retail volume was estimated at $100 million. In 1978, Klein claimed sales of 200,000 pairs of his famous jeans the first week they were on the market, by 1981, Fortune figured Kleins annual income at $8.5 million a year. In the mid-1970s, he had created a designer-jeans craze by putting his name on the back pocket. The gift was assumed by Schwartz to be part of the upcoming line, in the late 1970s, the company also made attempts to set up its own fragrance and cosmetics lines, but soon withdrew from the market with big financial losses. The stunning growth continued through the early eighties, the licensing program, which brought in $24,000 when it was initiated in 1974, had royalty income of $7.3 million ten years later. That year, worldwide sales were estimated at more than $600 million. His annual income passed $12 million, and indeed, in late 1987, it was said that the sale of the company to Triangle Industries, a container manufacturer, had only failed because of the crashing stock market. During his 1990-1995 stint as Calvin Kleins head of design, John Varvatos pioneered a type of mens underwear called boxer briefs. Made famous by a series of 1992 print ads featuring Mark Marky Mark Wahlberg, Klein was named Americas Best Designer for his minimalist all-American designs in 1993, and it came as a surprise in 1999 when it was announced that CKI was again up for sale. Planning to expand its business, the company had been approached by two luxury goods companies, LVMH and Pinault Printemps Redoute, to join Calvin Klein, but nothing resulted. Other potentials like Tommy Hilfiger Corp. and Italys Holding di Partecipazioni proved to be similar disappointments because of CKIs steep price tag of supposedly $1 billion, after seven months and no potential buyer, Klein announced that his empire was not on the market anymore. The company would never manage to go public, which had supposedly been Kleins plan once, in mid-December 2002, Calvin Klein Inc
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Perry Ellis
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Perry Edwin Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous sportswear house, in the mid-1970s. Ellis influence on the industry has been called a huge turning point. Ellis was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, on March 3,1940 and his father owned a coal and home heating oil company, which enabled the family to live a comfortable middle-class life. Perry graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1957 and he then studied at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, and graduated with a degree in business administration in 1961. To avoid the draft, Ellis enlisted in the United States Coast Guard Reserve with service that included six months of duty with the Coast Guard. He graduated from New York University with a degree in retailing in 1963. Ellis started out in department store retailing in the Richmond, Virginia area to experience in the fashion industry as a buyer and merchandiser at the department store Miller & Rhoads. While there, he was co-founder of Richmond retail shop A Sunny Day and he later joined the sportswear company John Meyer of Norwich in New York City. Eventually, in the mid-1970s, he was approached by his employer, The Vera Companies, famous for their polyester double-knit pantsuits. Soon after that, Ellis presented his first womens sportswear line, called Portfolio, although he could not sketch, he knew exactly how the industry worked and proved a master of innovative ideas who created new classics that American women longed for at the time. Ellis, together with The Vera Companies parent company, founded his own house, Perry Ellis International. He opened his showroom on New Yorks Seventh Avenue, as the companys chairman and head designer he later developed Perry Ellis Menswear Collection – marked by non-traditional, modern classics. Step by step, he added shoes, accessories, furs, throughout the 1980s the company continued to expand and include various labels such as Perry Ellis Collection and Perry Ellis Portfolio. By 1982, the company had more than 75 staff, in 1984, Perry Ellis America was created in cooperation with Levi Strauss. In 1985, he revived his lesser-priced Portfolio product line, in the early 1980s, wholesale revenues had figured at about $60 million. By 1986 that number had risen to about $260 million, highly praised professionally and personally, Ellis believed that fashion dies when you take it too seriously. Of Perry Ellis fashion design, Michael Bastian remarked that no one did it better, Ellis served as president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America from 1984 to 1986. In 1981, Ellis began a relationship with attorney Laughlin Barker, later that year, Ellis appointed Barker the President of the licensing division of Perry Ellis International
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Marc Jacobs
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Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the designer for his own fashion label, Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs. He was the director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2014. Jacobs was on Time magazines 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world, Marc Jacobs was born to a non-observant Jewish family in New York City. When he was seven, his father, an agent at the William Morris Agency and his mother, who remarried three times, was “mentally ill” and “didn’t really take care of her kids”, according to Jacobs. As a teenager, he went to live with his grandmother on the Upper West Side. He attended the High School of Art and Design and studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York, while at Parsons in 1984, Jacobs won the Perry Ellis Gold Thimble Award, Chester Weinberg Gold Thimble Award, and Design Student of the Year Award. He also won an award in 1991 from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, at age 15, Jacobs worked as a stockboy at Charivari, a now-defunct avant-garde clothing boutique in New York City. While still at Parsons, Jacobs designed and sold his first line of hand-knit sweaters and he also designed his first collection for Reuben Thomas, Inc. under the Sketchbook label. With Robert Duffy, Jacobss creative collaborator, and business partner since the mid-1980s, in 1986, backed by Onward Kashiyama USA, Inc. Jacobs designed his first collection bearing the Marc Jacobs label. In 1987, Jacobs was the youngest designer to have ever awarded the fashion industrys highest tribute. In 1988, Jacobs and Duffy joined the womens unit of Perry Ellis as creative director/vice president and president, respectively, following the death of its namesake. In addition, Jacobs oversaw the design of the various womens licensees, in 1992, the Council of Fashion Designers of America awarded Jacobs with The Womens Designer of the Year Award. In the same year, he designed a collection for Perry Ellis. In the fall of 1993, Jacobs Duffy Designs Inc. launched their own licensing and design company, Marc Jacobs International Company, in 1994, Jacobs produced his first full collection of menswear. In 1997, Jacobs was appointed Louis Vuittons creative director, where he created the companys first ready-to-wear clothing line, in 2005, Look was the Marc by Marc Jacobs ready-to-wear license holder in Japan with retail value of €50 million. In 2006, Jacobs started a new line of fragrances in affordable huge ten-ounce bottles which are distributed by Coty. First only being sold in boutiques, they have become more and more popular during the recent years
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