Kaffe Fassett Kaffe Fassett was born in San Francisco in 1937. Kaffe is a bestselling author, has hosted his own TV series and was the first textile artist ever to have a separate show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 1988. Kaffe ventured into the world of colourful yarn on a visit to a Scottish wool mill with fashion designer Bill Gibb. Inspired by the colours in the landscape, Kaffe was thrilled to find the same colours in yarns. His first designs where featured in Vogue kitting magazine as a full page spread.
Second, France adopted some innovations that they thought will greatly benefit the wine industry, for instance producing and utilizing glass bottles, using cork stoppers and application of pasteurization techniques. Such innovations contributed to better stability of their products and allowed for expanding production, and accordingly exports. Applying those technologies were the portal for France to create a global market for its wine with its first mover advantage. Even after the emerge of the New World wine industry, and in a response to a deadly pest that threatened its vine stock in the last quarter of the 19th century, France imported pest -resistant vine roots from the United States and grafted it to the French vines to salvage
SWOT Analysis Strengths The internal assessment of an organization begins by identifying the company’s strengths. A company has a competitive advantage over rivals when it is able to implement value-creating strategies using its own resources, capabilities, and core competencies. Ralph Lauren has successfully aligned their core competencies in order to meet demands from their customers and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage over competitors. Distinct Image and High Brand Recognition: Ralph Lauren is one of the most recognized brands in the world due to its premium product lines. With such recognition, Ralph Lauren has been able to expand its product offerings from not only men and women’s apparel, but also into jewelry, fragrances, and home furnishings.
The diamond’s identity changed from a In 1877 the Legendary Tiffany Diamond was discovered in the Kimberley diamond mine in South Africa. Charles Tiffany collaborated with acclaimed gemologist George Frederick Kunz “in sourcing the finest gemstones in America and the world for Tiffany's clientele”( Charles Lewis Tiffany). Dr. Kunz’s memorial reports that “At the early age of twenty-three Dr. Kunz was made vice-president of Tiffany and Company”(knn). A year after the discovery, the 287.42-carat rough stone was purchased by Mr. Tiffany for $18,000. The rough stone was brought to Paris, where Dr. Kunz studied it for a year before cutting it.
But it was the virtuoso handling of the medium on panel by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden that represented a turning point in its eventual adoption as the major painting medium in Europe in the 16th Century. By then van Eyck had been credited by some to be the first to engage in this medium; although he had been incorrectly credited with the "invention" of oil painting it was his experimentations and development that was not in dispute, providing much inspiration for other artists in Northern Europe and Italy. He was to pass his knowledge to few, yet many were to study his work and replicate the beauty, character, luminosity and longevity of his paintings. Rogier van der Weyden was also a Flemish painter whom we can attribute his use of oil paint and the advancement of his technical abilities as major artistic achievements of the Renaissance period. Rogier was distinguished by his dynamic compositions stressing human acts and drama.
In 1854, a French craftsman name Louis Vuitton Malletier became known for his craftwork on leather bags and trunks. After fifty years of success in France and the death of Louis Vuitton in 1892, Georges Vuitton took the company his father had built and produced the monogram canvas that the world knows for Louis Vuitton (LV) today. Since officially entering the international market in 1914, LV has made its mark on the world for the luxury handbags, jewelry, shoes, accessories, and travel luggage. By the mid-1970s, LV has become the world’s largest luxury brand. Henri Racamier, the husband of Louis Vuitton great-granddaughter Odile Vuitton, become the head of the family business at the age of 65.
S. to strike a deal with Napoleon for the Louisiana Purchase. Effective communication creates enhanced opportunities. That is why Samuel Morse’s invention of the telegraph is one of the greatest inventions in history. The telegraph was so beneficial continued growth in America because it not only improved communication in that time period, but it also laid the groundwork for future forms of communication. The early print telegraphs soon led to electric telegraphs, and those evolved into telephones and the internet.
Hired for his appeal to younger customers, albeit risky for their brand at the time, Marc Jacobs joined the Louis Vuitton family as creative director in 1998. Jacobs brings a different aesthetic to the Vuitton line. "Vuitton is a status symbol, always has been," Jacobs says. "But now it's sexier, bolder." (Matlack, 2004) Since his arrival and like Vuitton, Marc Jacobs has chosen to team up with various artists, to inspire a whole new aspect of Louis Vuitton bags.
Competitive Capabilities: Prior to 1990s Kodak had invested huge in R&D. Moreover, its century of innovation and development of photographic images gave Kodak tremendous depth of understanding of recording and processing images. Central to Kodak’s imaging capability was its color management capability. In the digitizing color and transferring digital images to paper, Kodak possessed a powerful set of complementary technologies in sensing, color management and thermal printing. Market advantage: Through its wider distribution network, it has been able to maintain a huge market coverage and accessibility. It had worldwide distribution presence - primarily through retail photography stores, film processors, and professional photographers.
Consider as the projects that built Piano reputation and give him an international name is the futurist Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. Years later Piano designed the Menil Collection Art Museum, built in Texas, in which he utilizes natural light to illuminates arts pieces during different times of the day. Another project that really reflects Piano’s ideals is the Shard of Glass, in which he used a high tech approach. Son of a builder and one of the most recognized architects in world is Renzo Piano. Piano was born on September 14, 1937 in Genoa Italy.