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Daria Werbowy
Daria Werbowy (born 19 November 1983) is a Canadian fashion model. She became a spokesmodel for the French beauty brand Lancôme in 2005. According to ''Forbes'', Werbowy has appeared on over 50 international ''Vogue'' covers. She retired after ten years in fashion while still one of the industry's top models. In a retrospective, ''Vogue'' dubbed her the "ultimate model muse." Personal life Werbowy was born into an ethnic Ukrainian family in Poland. The family cultivates their ancestral traditions. (See Wikipedia Ukrainian version article on her.) . She has a brother and a sister. When she was three years old, the family moved to Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto, Canada, to escape the generational effects the World Wars had on them. Werbowy considers herself grateful to Canada as she likely would not have had the same opportunities living in Europe. She is an avid sailor and spent three months in 2008, sailing across the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. In 2011, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Business Of Fashion
Imran Amed (born April 20, 1975) is a Canadian-British fashion media entrepreneur. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the website ''The Business of Fashion''. Early life Amed was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He is of Indian descent. Amed attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 2000, he enrolled at Harvard Business School to complete an MBA. Career Upon graduation in 2002, Amed moved to London to work for McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. He left McKinsey in 2006 to explore his interest in the fashion industry. In 2011, Amed launched a bag design collaboration with British leather goods designer Bill Amberg. ''The Business of Fashion'' Amed is the founder of ''The Business of Fashion'' (BoF), a fashion news website. He launched it as a blog from his flat in Notting Hill in 2007. In 2013, Amed raised $2.5 million in seed financing. BoF launched in China in 2014; ''Vanity Fair'' described it as the "only fashion-industry pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |