the baby Dior label for childrenswear. Products are sold throughout its portfolio of retail stores worldwide‚ as well as through its online store via dior.com. Competitors to the House of Dior include‚ among many‚ the fashion houses of Chanel‚ Burberry‚ Yves Saint Laurent‚ Gucci‚ Prada. History The House of Dior was established on 16 December 1946‚ in "a private house" at 30 Avenue Montaigne Paris B. However‚ the current Dior corporation celebrates "1947" as the opening year. Dior was financially
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With today’s easily accessible technology‚ one could pull up numerous pictures of a nude woman‚ whether pornographic or fine art based‚ in a few seconds. Surprisingly‚ prior to this influx of technology‚ these images were not that scarce; in fact‚ photographers have used the nude body as a source of inspiration and content since the beginning of the medium. As stated by Graham Clarke in his book The Photograph‚ “[m]uch of the photography of the body in the early twentieth century is an extension
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Kate Moss. What comes to mind when you hear that name? Supermodel‚ Drug Taker‚ style-icon‚ mum‚ actor‚ singer or a walking billboard of what you will see every teenager around the world wearing the next week? As a matter of fact she comes under all those things. Katherine Moss born on the 16th of January‚ 1974 was the English teenager who was discovered at the age of 14 by the founder of an exclusive modeling agency in New York. Sarah Doukas as she is called spotted Moss at the JFK Airport in
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Matthew Selle Professor Li Global Business Project Spring 2012 Nike We decided to choose Nike as our company for this global business project. Nike is ranked 135 in the fortune 500-company list. Nike is the number one sports shoe company in the United States. In the US Nike dominates 35 percent of the sports shoe market‚ it also holds one of the most recognizable logos in the world‚ the Nike Swoosh. The majority of Nikes customers‚ over 50% purchase their merchandise for things other than sporting
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Age is no longer the only criteria that defines vintage fashion. “Vintage implies that it has archival value‚” said Cameron Silver‚ owner of Decades‚ the extremely popular Los Angeles vintage store. Strictly speaking‚ vintage fashion would ideally be clothing that is atleast 25 to 30 years old‚ but this is highly debatable now. Some say that vintage fashion spanned from the 20s to 50s‚ and all that came in after that is “retro clothing”‚ whereas others argue that the 80s is as much vintage as the
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are “Havana‚ Santiago de Cuba‚ Camaguey‚ Holguin‚ Santa Clara‚ Guantanamo‚ Bayamo‚ Victoria de Las Tunas‚ Cienfuegos‚ Manzanillo‚ Pinar del Rio” (FAST). Santiago de Cuba is located in the South West part of the country‚ and is adjacent to the Cayman Trench. It has a population of approximately 420‚000 people. It is also known as the origin of all genres of traditional Cuban music (Santiago). This includes son music‚ the genre in which all others derived‚ which is “a combination of Spanish verse & chorus
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I remember sitting in class crying and looking around my classroom thinking “can someone here do that to us?” Immediately the first words that came out of the mouths of my classmates were‚ “Everyone watch out for Shaun because he wears a trench coat.” I couldn’t even believe that people were saying that. I do not feel that the parents should be blamed for what those kids did. I think that they could have paid more attention to them. But I
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After Spade’s discovery of Mr. Gutman and his trailing gunman‚ Wilbert. He was given orders to see Gutman by his little pawn. As Wilbert took him upstairs inside the hotel and outside Gutman’s room‚ Spade disarmed the two guns from his trench coat. They head inside into the room and told Gutman‚ such a rookie gunman should be running around with these‚ he’ll end up hurting himself. Gutman laughed‚ then apologized for their last interaction and told him about the origins of the Maltese Falcon and
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Poppies glow like bright little lamps on our warm coats in November. They whisper like long-lost voices from the forgotten fields of Flanders. The most significant wars in our world’s history symbolized in many countries‚ by a tiny little flower. If you ask this generation “Why this simple little flower represents so much of our history?” Many do not know that the color red of a poppy’s petals symbolizes the blood lost by victims and casualties in the conflict. Many kids listen to the reason
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Ms. Fidler ENG Comp I 7 October 2012 Violence in the Media causes Aggression in Children There have been lots of debates and studies discussing the impact that media violence has on children. Research has shown that media violence does affect the behavior in children. Media violence also causes aggression in children’s behavior. Psychology studies have shown how children think. “A young child is a human being who‚ unlike their elders‚ is still engaged in the fundamental process of developing
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