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Naked Heart Foundation
The Naked Heart Foundation is a charity that provides children in Russia with families and safe and stimulating playspaces. It does this through creating safe and inspiring play facilities in impoverished areas, supporting foster families and families raising children with disabilities, funding NGOs that work with such families, preventing the abandonment of children in Russia, and disability awareness campaigns. Founding The organisation was founded in 2004 by model and actress Natalia Vodianova in response to the trauma she witnessed among children who had survived the 2004 Beslan School siegeRussian supermodel's playful ambition CNN. 15 May 2009. and, more generally, her perception of the importance of play for children. Philosophy The organisation believes ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalia Vodianova
Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova ( rus, Наталья Михайловна Водянова, , nɐˈtalʲjə mʲɪˈxajləvnə vədʲɪˈnovə; born 28 February 1982), nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model, actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. In 2012, she came in third on the ''Forbes'' top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $8.6 million in one year. Vodianova was ranked in 2015 by models.com as one of the New Supers in the fashion industry. In 2010, Vodianova was awarded Inspiration of the Year by ''Harper's Bazaar''. In 2014, Glamour recognized her as Woman of the Year and awarded her its The Voice for Children award. Vodianova is a mother of 5. She is also a member of the Special Olympics International Board of Directors. In 2021, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) appointed her as a Goodwill Ambassador for the sexual and reproductive health agency. Early life Born in Gorky, in the Soviet Union (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Vodianova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Moss
Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is a British model. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fashion icon status. She is known for her waifish figure, and role in size zero fashion. Moss has had her own clothing range, has been involved in musical projects, and is also a contributing fashion editor for British ''Vogue''. In 2012, she came second on the ''Forbes'' top-earning models list, with estimated earnings of $9.2 million in one year. The accolades she has received for modelling include the 2013 British Fashion Awards acknowledging her contribution to fashion over 25 years, while ''Time'' named her one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2007. A subject of media scrutiny due to her partying lifestyle, Moss was involved in a drug use scandal in September 2005, which led to her being dropped from fashion campaign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arki Busson
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Arki may refer to: *Arki, India, a town in Himachal Pradesh, India ** Arki Fort **Arki (Vidhan Sabha constituency) *Arki block, a community development block in Jharkhand, India **Arki, Khunti, a village in Jharkhand, India * Arki, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *''Nichijou'', a manga and anime series (manga was released in Finland as ''Arki'') See also * Arkie * Arkies *Arkley *Arkoi Arkoi ( el, Αρκοί; also Arkioi ()) is a small Greek island which is part of the Dodecanese archipelago. It is situated in the eastern Aegean Sea, close to the Turkish Aegean Coast. The island belongs to the municipality of Patmos, and has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Newson
Marc Andrew Newson CBE RDI (born 20 October 1963) is an industrial designer who works in aircraft cabin design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. His style uses smooth geometric lines, translucency, strength, transparency, and tends to have an absence of sharp edges. Career Newson was born in Sydney, Australia, and in 1984 he graduated at the Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney, Australia studying jewellery and sculpture. In 1986 he was awarded a grant from the Australian Crafts Council and staged a first exhibition featuring the Lockheed Lounge. The following year he moved to Tokyo, where he mostly worked with the designer company Idée and where he created works such as the Super Guppy lamp (1987) and the Orgone lounge (1989). He moved to Paris in 1991 where he set up a studio. He describes his 1988 Embryo Chair as "one of the first pieces where I hit upon a discernible style". He co-founded the Ikepod watch company in 1994, leaving the company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne Guinness
Daphne Diana Joan Susanna Guinness (born 9 November 1967) is an English designer, actress, producer, and musician. Early life Her father is Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne, the eldest son of Diana Mitford and Bryan Guinness. Diana Mitford was the daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, the father of the Mitford sisters. Mitford divorced Guinness and married the leader of the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet of Ancoats. Daphne Guinness has said she did not know of Mosley's political affiliations, before she heard in 1980 on the BBC News that he had died.Garratt, SherylDaphne Guinness's glove story ''Daily Telegraph'', 25 June 2011. Accessed 31 August 2021. As a child, Guinness grew up moving between the country houses owned by her family in England and Ireland, and a villa in Spain, where Salvador Dalí was a family friend. She later lived in New York with her half-sister, Catherine Guinness, who was working as a Personal Assistant to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Hilfiger
Thomas Jacob Hilfiger ( /hɪlˈfɪgər/; born March 24, 1951) is an American fashion designer and the founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. After starting his career by co-founding a chain of jeans/fashion stores called People's Place in upstate New York in the 1970s, he began designing preppy clothing for his own eponymous menswear line in the 1980s. The company later expanded into women's clothing and various luxury items such as perfumes and went public in 1992. Hilfiger's collections are often influenced by the fashion of music subcultures and marketed in connection with the music industry, with celebrities such as American R&B artist Aaliyah in the 1990s. In 2005, contestants in the CBS reality show '' The Cut'' competed for a design job with Hilfiger in a similar fashion to ''The Apprentice''. In 2006, Hilfiger sold his company for $1.6 billion to Apax Partners, who next sold it in 2010 to Phillips-Van Heusen for $3 billion. He remains the company's principal designe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Palermo
Olivia Palermo (born February 28, 1986) is an American socialite, fashion influencer, entrepreneur, model and television personality. Palermo gained celebrity status when she sued socialiterank.com for releasing a letter that was proven to be false. It made a news story on New York Magazine on May 4, 2007. Early life Olivia Palermo was born on February 28, 1986 in New York City and grew up on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her father is a real estate developer and her mother is an interior designer. She has a younger brother, Grant. Palermo attended elementary school at Nightingale-Bamford School in Manhattan and high school at the St. Luke's School in New Canaan, Connecticut. She attended the American University of Paris and The New School. She is of Italian descent. Palermo grew up with a learning disability. Palermo interned at ''Quest'' magazine. Photographer Patrick McMullan spotted her at an auction, then took pictures of her about town. Palermo be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita Missoni
Margherita Maccapani Missoni Amos (born February 22, 1983) is an Italian fashion designer, model, socialite and heiress to her family's Missoni fashion house, which was founded by her grandparents Ottavio Missoni and Rosita Missoni Jelmini. Missoni currently lives in Montonate, a suburb of Mornago (Italy) close to the Missoni headquarters, where she is following her design career. Biography Margherita Maccapani Missoni was born in Italy''Daily Telegraph'"'Missoni' Accomplished"Retrieved October 19, 2007 and grew up in the Italian countryside, spending weekends in Milan.PaperMag.co"Out on the town with Margherita Missoni"Retrieved October 19, 2007 She studied philosophy at Columbia University. Margherita has studied philosophy both at the Università Statale di Milano and at the Columbia University in New York where, following that period, she also attended the Stella Adler acting school and the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. However, after she moved to New York, she struggle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Louboutin
Christian Louboutin (; born 7 January 1963) is a French fashion designer whose high-end stiletto footwear incorporates shiny, red-lacquered soles that have become his signature. Initially a freelance designer for fashion houses, he started his own shoe salon in Paris, with his shoes finding favor with celebrity clientele. He has partnered with other organizations for projects including limited edition pieces, gallery exhibits and a custom bar. His company has since branched out into men's luxury footwear, handbags, fragrances and makeup. Early life Louboutin was born and raised in Paris. He was the only son of Roger, a cabinet-maker, and Irene, a homemaker from Brittany. He has three sisters. Louboutin said in a 2012 interview that he was "much darker-skinned than everyone else in his family. You know, I felt I wasn't French. My family was very French and so I decided they had probably adopted me. But instead of feeling it was terrible and that I was an outsider who had to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentino Garavani
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani (; born 11 May 1932), known mononymously as Valentino, is an Italian fashion designer, the founder of the Valentino brand and company. His main lines include Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Valentino Roma, and R.E.D. Valentino. Career Early life and 1950s Paris years Valentino was born in Voghera, in the province of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. His mother named him after screen idol Rudolph Valentino. He became interested in fashion while in primary school in his native Voghera, when he apprenticed under his aunt Rosa and local designer Ernestina Salvadeo, an aunt of noted artist Aldo Giorgini. Valentino then moved to Paris to pursue this interest with the help of his mother Teresa de Biaggi and his father Mauro Garavani. There he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. His first choice for an apprenticeship, in Paris, was Jacques Fath, then Balenciaga. He found an apprenticeship with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jade Jagger
Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger (born 21 October 1971) is a British-French jewellery designer, home designer, and former model. She is the daughter of Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger and 1970s fashion model and human rights advocate Bianca Jagger. Early life Jagger was born on 21 October 1971 at Belvedere Nursing Home in Paris, the only child of rock star Mick Jagger and his first wife, Bianca Jagger. Her parents divorced when she was a child. She is of English and Nicaraguan ancestry. Jagger is the paternal half-sister of Karis Hunt Jagger (born 1970), Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger (born 1984), James Leroy Augustin Jagger (born 1985), Georgia May Ayeesha Jagger (born 1992), Gabriel Luke Beauregard Jagger (born 1997), Lucas Maurice Morad-Jagger (born 1999), and Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger (born 2016). Career In 1996, Jagger launched Jade Inc., an integrated jewellery and fashion brand, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joely Richardson
Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Julia McNamara in the FX drama series ''Nip/Tuck'' (2003–10) and Katherine Parr in the Showtime series ''The Tudors'' (2010). She has also appeared in films such as '' 101 Dalmatians'' (1996), ''Event Horizon'' (1997), '' The Patriot'' (2000), ''Return to Me'' (2000), '' Anonymous'' (2011), the Hollywood film adaptation of ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (2011), the remake of '' Endless Love'' (2014), the thriller ''Red Sparrow'' (2018), and '' The Turning'' (2020). Early life Joely Kim Richardson was born in Marylebone, London, to the theatrical Redgrave family, the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson (1928–1991), and the granddaughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave (1908–1985) and Rachel Kempson (1910–2003), Lady Redgrave. Actress Natasha Richardson (1963–2009) was her sister and actor Liam Neeson is her brother-in-law. She is the aunt of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
