Johnson took many dance classes, which inspired her love of costumes. Johnson's fashion career started after she entered and won the Mademoiselle Guest Editor Contest. Within a year, she was the in-house designer for Manhattan boutique Paraphernalia. Johnson became part of both the ‘youthquake’ fashion movement and Andy Warhol's underground scene. In 1969, she opened a boutique called Betsey Bunky Nini on New York's Upper East Side.
Twiggy’s influence on fashion and modeling is still present in the world today through her involvement in television shows, magazines, and product commercials; as well as the influence she has had on women’s fashion today between keeping older women fashion forward and designing clothing for all women, and her attempt to fight against the negative side effects that comes with a world full of super models. This fashion icon is a woman who caught the eye of the public in sixty-six and still to this day people are watching her. Twiggy was born in London at the end of the 1940s as Lesley Hornby. From childhood she always had dreamed of being in fashion and at the age of sixteen was pulled into the world of fashion and started her path to being a fashion icon. Twiggy revolutionized the world of fashion and modeling through her tiny figure, boyish features, short haircut, thick eyelashes, and new style clothing in a matter of four years.
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (1883 – 1971) Figure 1. Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel [pic] Gabrielle Chanel (see Figure 1) was born in a French city Saumur on 19 August in 1883. When she was 18 she got a job as a shop assistant at a clothes shop. In 1909 Coco opened her own firm that made hats, which had a huge success in Paris. Coco had a talent to invent new models.
Many readers, also, trust the advertisements on the magazine and frequently find themselves buying the goods advertised in it. The typical reader of Vogue magazines is usually a person who is into fashion and style. After all, it is said to be one of the world's most influential fashion magazines. During the magazine's beginnings, it targeted New York's aristocracy as an audience to promote class and formality in fashion, as well as sports and other social affairs. Nowadays, though, Vogue releases editions in over 24 countries, being more accessible to a broader audience.
Ann Taylor 15 Case Analysis Week 6 Professor Michael Reitzel Eugenia Harris COMPANY NAME Ann Taylor WEBSITE www.anntaylor.com INDUSTRY Premier American Specialty Apparel Retailer for the Professional Woman BACKGROUND AND HISTORY Ann Taylor was discovered and started in 1954 as a wardrobe source for a woman of business, socially higher class. This business started out in the city of New Haven, Connecticut. Robert Liebeskind established a stand- alone clothing store for Ann Taylor. The name Ann Taylor for the company came from when Rich Liebeskind Sr. the father of Liebeskind who is a designer himself provided as a good luck gesture gave his son rights exclusively to one of his best selling dresses. Ann Taylor was never name of a real person living but her persona lived on in the profile of the consumers.
Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz was born October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1967, Leibovitz enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she initially studied painting but developed an interest in photography. Leibovitz applied for a job with the rock music magazine Rolling Stone in 1970. Impressed with Leibovitz’s portfolio, editor Jann Wenner offered her a job as a staff photographer. Within two years, Leibovitz was promoted to chief photographer at the age of 23 - a title she held for the next 10 years.
The Ultimate Sex Kitten In her 60′s heydays you would have been hard pressed to find a man who did not consider Brigitte Bardot, or BB, to be the ultimate sex symbol. Serge Gainsbourg wrote songs for her, fashion designers adored her and she was even chosen to be the first face of Marianne, the Liberty symbol of France. She was ahead of her time in many ways and her bohemian looks had a huge influence on the fashion and beauty world. Her signature messy up-do, cat eye make-up and sexy nude pout are still being emulated in photo shoots today. She is also credited for popularizing the Bikini through her movies and for taking the ballet flat from the stage onto the streets.
My leader is Madam CJ Walker. Madam CJ Walker was born Dec 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana. She passed away May 25, 1919 in New York, New York. She lived to accomplish a lot of great things. She created her own hair products for black women.
Hence, it extract the inner determination to be big and influential in what you desire as a human being (Michalko, 2: 2001) Anna Wintour Born on the November 3rd of 1949 in London, England to a highly educated family, father Charles Wintour an Evening Standard former editor and mother Elinor Wintour who is philanthropist. Wintour attended the North London Collegiate School, she showed early interest in the fashion industry and journalism with the help of her father consultancy.”I think my father really decided for me that I should work in fashion” At the age of 15 Anna’s father managed to get her a job at the iconic BIBA boutique, a year later she
She realized she could do anything she wanted and she wanted me (Meg) to recognize that I could do the same.” Meg Whitman became an Oprah-Like figure. Fortune Magazine twice named her (in 2004 and 2005) the most powerful women in the American Business. She was also featured in Forbes Magazine in its 2007 list of best Bosses for delivering “Superior returns to shareholders while not gorging on outrageous pay packages.” In 2009, Meg Whitman began her political career and ran for Governor of California. As a role model she hasn’t forgotten where she came from, how she got to where she is now and always looked back to see if she could help those who came from that same place. I admire her work and accomplishments because it’s rare to see a woman in America that has gone that far as she did, in which America, the majority of