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Andrés Velencoso
Andrés Velencoso Segura (born 11 March 1978) is a Spanish model and actor. He is best known for ad campaigns such as Chanel Allure Homme, Sport fragrance and Louis Vuitton campaign with Jennifer Lopez in 2003. In June 2009, he was ranked #6 in MODELS.com's "''Top Icons Men''", alongside male models Mathias Lauridsen, Tyson Ballou and Mark Vanderloo. and currently he ranks No.16 on Top 25 list "''The Money Guys''" following his compatriots Oriol Elcacho and Jon Kortajarena. Early life Andrés Velencoso was born in Tossa de Mar (Girona), in Catalonia, Spain. Career Modeling Velencoso started his modelling career after he finished high school, signing a contract with Group Model Management, a Spanish modelling agency. But the beginning of his career was filled with rejection. When Velencoso went to Milan, almost every agent found him unusable. His fortunes changed when Natalie Kates, an agent from New York City-based Q Model Management opened the door for him in 2001, despit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
31st Goya Awards
The 31st Goya Awards were presented at the Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel in Madrid on 4 February 2017 to honour the best in Spanish films of 2016. Actor and comedian Dani Rovira was the master of ceremonies for the third time in a row. Nominations were announced on 14 December 2016 by Javier Cámara and Natalia de Molina. ''A Monster Calls (film), A Monster Calls'' received the most nominations with twelve, followed by ''Smoke & Mirrors (2016 film), Smoke & Mirrors'' and ''The Fury of a Patient Man'' with eleven nominations each. ''The Fury of a Patient Man'' won Best Film, as well as Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best New Director, but ''A Monster Calls (film), A Monster Calls'' won the most awards, with nine awards, including Best Director. Actress Emma Suárez won two awards on the same night: Best Actress for ''Julieta (film), Julieta'' and Best Supporting Actress for ''La próxima piel''. Winners and nominees Major awards Other award nominees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Girona
Girona (; es, Gerona ; french: Gérone) is a province of Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered on the northwest by the province of Lleida, on the southwest by the province of Barcelona, on the north by France ( Pyrénées-Orientales), and on the east by the Mediterranean Sea. The population of the province in 2016 was 739,607. Its capital and largest city is Girona, with an urban area (including the neighbouring municipalities of Salt, Sarrià de Ter and Vilablareix) representing, with a total population of 144,709, 19.2% of the population. The Girona area acts as an industrial, commercial and service hub for a significant part of the province. Municipalities of Girona The province has 222 municipalities, including Girona city (population 96,722), Figueres (pop. 44,765), Lloret de Mar (pop. 40,282), Blanes (pop. 39,834), Olot (33,725), Salt (pop. 30,389), Palafrugell (pop. 22,816) and Sant Feliu de Guíxols (pop. 21,814), as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Officiel Hommes
''L'Officiel Hommes'' is a French luxury fashion and lifestyle magazine for men, adapted from ''L'Officiel'', owned by a French media group "Les Éditions Jalou". It has been published in Paris since 2005 and targets men interested in fashion. History ''L'Officiel Hommes'' was introduced in 2005 under publications of "Les Éditions Jalou" after the great success of ''L'Officiel'', first published in 1921. Les Editions Jalou has many international versions of ''L'Officiel'' and ''L'Officiel Hommes''. ''L'Officiel Hommes'' is published in several countries, including China, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Korea, Lebanon, Morocco, Poland, Thailand, The Netherlands, Ukraine and Spain. In January 2005, Editions Jalou launched ''L'Officiel Hommes'', the first magazine to be created by a stylist and not by a journalist. Marie-José Susskind-Jalou asked one of the founders of the Colette boutique in Paris, Milan Vukmirovic, to make a bi-annual magazine dedicated 100% to fashion that treats the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Dondoe
Diana Dondoe (born December 22, 1982) is a Romanian model. She was discovered in Bucharest, Romania by Giani Portmann, a Romanian modelling scout. Dondoe resides in New York City, USA. Aside from modelling she is a student majoring in English and Spanish. She appeared in many campaigns such as: Chanel, Miu Miu, Prada, Celine, Donna Karan, Moschino, Jean-Paul Gaultier, La Perla, Balenciaga and the Swedish clothing manufacturer H&M's beachwear collection. In 2009 she appeared in Rock and Republics' Spring and Summer ad campaign with Cartwright Lee. She also appeared on the covers of French ''Vogue'', Japanese ''Vogue'', Spanish ''Vogue'', ''Self Service'', ''ID Magazine'', ''W'', ''10 Magazine'' and ''Flair''. She was on the inaugural cover of '' WSJ.'' In 2005 she posed for the Pirelli Calendar set in a tropical scenery of Rio de Janeiro, photographed in black and white by the French photographer Patrick Demarchelier. In 2009 Dondoe appeared in the fashion documentary ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Bündchen (, , born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian fashion model. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th-richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on ''Forbes'' top-earning models list in 2012. In 2014, she was listed as the 89th-most-powerful woman in the World by ''Forbes''. ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'' credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modelling in 1999. Bündchen was a Victoria's Secret#Victoria's Secret Angels, Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006. She is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement created by a model lifting her knees high and kicking her feet to step. In 2007, Claudia Schiffer called Bündchen the only remaining supermodel. Bündchen has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers. Bündchen was nominated for Choice Movie Female Breakout Star and for Choice Movie Villain at the 2005 Teen C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier (; born 24 April 1952) is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. He is described as an "enfant terrible" of the fashion industry and is known for his unconventional designs with motifs including corsets, marinières, and tin cans. Gaultier founded his self-titled fashion label in 1982, and expanded with a line of fragrances in 1993. He was the creative director for French luxury house Hermès from 2003 to 2010, and retired following his 50th-anniversary haute couture show during Paris Fashion Week in January 2020. Aside from his work in the fashion industry, Gaultier co-presented the first seven series of the television series '' Eurotrash'' with Antoine de Caunes from 1993–1997. Biography Early life Gaultier grew up in a suburb of Paris. His mother was a clerk and his father an accountant. It was his maternal grandmother, Marie Garrabe, who introduced him to the world of fashion. He never received formal training as a designe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Homme +
''Arena Homme +'' is a fashion magazine for men published biannually since 1994. The first issue was published in Spring/Summer 1994.Arena Homme Plus ''Premiere Issues''. Retrieved 29 January 2016. The founding is Kathryn Flett. It is published by Ashley Heath and editor-in-chief is the stylist & former '''' campaign model Max Pearmain. The current art director is Ben Kelway. ''Arena Homme'' + came from the monthly '' |
Banana Republic (clothing Retailer)
In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of natural resources. In 1904, the American author O. Henry coined the term to describe Honduras and neighboring countries under economic exploitation by U.S. corporations, such as the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Brands International). Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites. The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by way of the exploitation of labor; thus, the term ''banana republic'' is a pejorative descriptor for a servile oligarchy that abets and supports, for kickbacks, the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture, especially banana cultivation. A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Thompson (photographer)
Michael Thompson is an American photographer who began his career as an assistant to Irving Penn after training at the Brooks Institute of Photography in California. His father was a studio photographer in Washington State. Thompson's photography has appeared in W, Details, Allure, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. His commercial photography includes campaigns for Gap, Elizabeth Arden, Chanel, and the PDN Award winner "I Am African." His commercials include those for the fragrance "Lovely" by Sarah Jessica Parker (winner of the 2006 FiFi Award for Best National Advertising Campaign -Television), the "Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered ... Collection" for Tiffany, and a PSA for " The American Ballet Theatre." Thomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Hampton (village), New York
The Village of East Hampton is a village in Suffolk County, New York. It is located in the town of East Hampton on the South Fork of eastern Long Island. The population was 1,083 at the time of the 2010 census, 251 less than in the year 2000. It is a center of the summer resort and upscale locality at the East End of Long Island known as The Hamptons and is generally considered one of the area's two most prestigious communities. History 17th century The village of Easthampton was founded in 1648 by Puritan farmers who worshiped as Presbyterians. The community was based on farming, with some fishing and whaling. Whales that washed up on the beach were butchered, and whales were hunted offshore with rowboats sometimes manned by Montauk Indians. The lack of a good harbor in East Hampton, however, resulted in Sag Harbor becoming a whaling center which sent ships to the Pacific. The land had been purchased in 1648 by the governors of Connecticut Colony and New Haven Colony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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