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Miranda Kerr
Miranda May Kerr (; born 20 April 1983) is an Australian model and businesswoman. Kerr rose to prominence in 2007, as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Kerr was the first Australian Victoria's Secret model and also represented the Australian department store chain David Jones. Kerr has launched her own brand of organic skincare products, KORA Organics, and has written a self-help book. Kerr began modelling in the fashion industry when she was 13, winning the 1997 '' Dolly'' magazine model search competition. Since 2008, Kerr has consistently ranked on the ''Forbes'' list of highest earning models. Kerr was previously married to English actor Orlando Bloom, with whom she had her first son. Since 2017, she has been married to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel with whom she has two children. Early life Kerr was born in Sydney, and raised in Gunnedah, New South Wales. She is the daughter of Therese and John Kerr. Her mother was 17 years old when she gave birth. She has a brother, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common throughout Greater Sydney. The traditional custodians of the land on which modern Sydney stands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Health Psychology
Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. The discipline is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, chronically occurring environmental stressors affecting the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, cumulatively, can harm health. Behavioral factors can also affect a person's health. For example, certain behaviors can, over time, harm (smoking or consuming excessive amounts of alcohol) or enhance (engaging in exercise) health.Ogden, J. (2012). ''Health Psychology: A Textbook (5th ed.).'' Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press. Health psychologists take a biopsychosocial approach. In other words, health psychologists understand health to be the product not only of biological processes (e.g., a virus, tumor, etc.) but also of psychological (e.g., thoughts and beliefs), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Finetti
Nicola Finetti is an Australian fashion designer known for his eponymous fashion label, launched in 1995. Born in Bari, Italy, he studied architecture in Rome before emigrating to Australia in 1984 and now resides in Sydney. His designs have been seen on Cate Blanchett, Miranda Kerr, Jennifer Hawkins and Lyndsey Rodrigues Lyndsey Rodrigues (born 23 July 1981) is an Australian TV host, actress and former MTV VJ, known as a co-host of the MTV TV series '' Total Request Live''. She has also hosted other MTV programs, such as '' Escape from Oz: The Real World Sydney .... He has described his designs as a combination of femininity and strength. References Living people Italian fashion designers Australian fashion designers Year of birth missing (living people) {{design-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettina Liano
Bettina Liano (born 1966) is an Italian-Australian fashion designer, creator and former owner of the "Bettina Liano" women's clothing and jeans label. Career Liano's career in fashion started by chance in the early 1980s when Melbourne retailer Joe Silitto noticed a dress that she had made for her sister, and asked about selling the design. In 1983, Liano and her mother opened a shop, "Sempre L'Unico", in Toorak Village. The family business, which included Liano's two sisters, did well and they opened two more shops, in Chapel Street and the city. After leaving Sempre L'Unico to start her own business, Liano, with her husband Roy Christou, launched the eponymous Bettina Liano label in 1989. Two years later they started making jeans"spray-on-tight, hipster jeans", in contrast to the loose fitting styles of the timewhich became one of her most popular items. In 1999, Liano won a Federal Court injunction preventing Satch Clothing from selling clothes that had been made using h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levi's
Levi Strauss & Co. () is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's () brand of denim jeans. It was founded in May 1853 when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, to open a West Coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business. Although the corporation is registered in Delaware, the company's corporate headquarters is located in Levi's Plaza in San Francisco. History Origin and formation (1853–1890s) German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss started his trading business at the 90 Sacramento Street address in San Francisco and then moved the location to 62 Sacramento Street. In 1858, the company was listed as ''Strauss, Levi (David Stern & Levis Strauss) importers clothing, etc. 63 & 65 Sacramento St.'' (today, on the current grounds of the 353 Sacramento Street Lobby ) in the San Francisco Directory with Strauss serving as its sales manager and his brother-in-law, David Stern, as its manag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Ho
Lisa Ho (born 1960) is an Australian fashion designer born in Albury, on the New South Wales and Victorian border. Early life Ho began sewing at age 4 inspired by her grandmother of African descent, a tailor, whom Ho says she 'probably drove mad'. Ho made patterns out of newspaper and by age 10 had a sewing machine at the end of the kitchen table 'that nobody was allowed to move,' which she used every day to make things for herself and four sisters. Ho attended Pennant Hills High School. She later trained in fashion design at East Sydney Technical College, graduating in 1981 and spent a year working for three other companies, which she 'hated', before going out on her own. Career Like many of Australia's fashion designers, fresh out of college in 1982, Ho started her career at the Paddington markets for only 6 weeks with her designs that quickly brought her retail and media attention and began the Lisa Ho brand. The Lisa Ho brand was one of the most recognized brands in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Phat
Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons is a privately held American apparel brand established in 1999 by fashion model, creative director, and entrepreneur, Kimora Lee Simmons. Initially launched as a womenswear offshoot of the menswear label, Phat Farm, Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons eventually grew into a comprehensive lifestyle brand that is widely regarded as one of the most definitive brands of the early aughts era. Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons was re-launched in December 2019. Brand History Baby Phat was first introduced in 1993. The fledgling brand offered a small line of fitted women’s T-shirts under the umbrella of Russell Simmons-owned Phat Fashions LLC, a business entity created primarily to operate the men’s streetwear label, Phat Farm. By the mid-nineties, corporate restructuring of Phat Fashions had stalled the development of Baby Phat. Russell Simmons then partnered with apparel manufacturer Turbo Sportswear to form a new company called the American Design G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Perry
Alexandros Pertsinidis (born on February 14, 1963), known professionally as Alex Perry, is an Australian fashion designer and television presenter, mostly famous for his womenswear. His designs have been worn by celebrities including Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, Gigi Hadid, Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rihanna, Priyanka Chopra, and Lupita Nyong'o. Perry's designs have been featured on front covers of popular magazines such as ''Vogue Australia'', ''Harper's Bazaar Australia'', ''Marie Claire'', ''InStyle,'' and ''Good Weekend''. Perry is the longest serving cast member of ''Australia's Next Top Model'' having appeared as a judge for all ten seasons. He has also been a judge on '' Asia's Next Top Model'' and hosted '' The Real Housewives of Melbourne'' Reunion. Early life Perry was born as Alexandros Pertsinidis and grew up in a migrant, working-class family in Sydney. His father is a Greek immigrant and his mother was born in Australia of Greek immigrant parents, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Next Management
NEXT Management is a modeling and talent agency founded in 1989 by Faith Kates and Joel Wilkenfeld. Next is headquartered in New York City with divisions in London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan and Paris. Fashion models Notable models currently represented by Next Management include: * Eniola Abioro * Olivia Anakwe * Alanna Arrington * Ana Beatriz Barros * Zuzanna Bijoch * Myrthe Bolt * Josie Canseco * Alexa Chung * Grace Elizabeth * Selena Forrest * Langley Fox * Nats Getty * Georgina Grenville * Grace Hartzel * Marloes Horst * Oumie Jammeh * Abbey Lee * Anais Mali * Ali Michael * Melodie Monrose * Lineisy Montero * Blanca Padilla * Tatjana Patitz * Lia Pavlova * Odette Pavlova * Karmen Pedaru * Julia Restoin Roitfeld * Lili Sumner * Cara Taylor * Ugbad * Binx Walton * Imogen Waterhouse * Karolin Wolter * Anok Yai * Kit Butler Talent Next represents the following digital influencers, actors and musicians on its talent board: * A$AP Rocky * Alma Jodorowsky * Alu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowery Ballroom
The Bowery Ballroom is a New York City live-music venue located at 6 Delancey Street in the neighborhood of Bowery in Manhattan. The Bowery Ballroom holds something of a cult status among musicians as well as audiences. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine has awarded it #1 Best Club in America. "It's both intimate and grand, with consistently great sound and sightlines, and touches of old-school class, like 84-year-old bronze rails." It has a capacity of 575 people. A detailed scholarly account of the venue and its place in the wider music and cultural history of New York City was published in 2020. History The Bowery Ballroom was founded in 1998 by Michael Swier, Michael Winsch, and Brian Swier, who still own and operate the business. The club was the team's second music venue after The Mercury Lounge. The building at 6 Delancey Street was built to be a high-end shoe store and haberdashery just before the devastating Wall Street Crash of 1929. It stood vacant until the end of World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxy (clothing)
Quiksilver is a brand of surf-inspired apparel and accessories that was founded in 1969 in Torquay, Australia, but is now based in Huntington Beach, California. It is one of the world's largest brands of surfwear and boardsport-related equipment. The parent company changed its name in March 2017 from Quiksilver, Inc. to Boardriders, Inc., and is the owner of the brands Quiksilver, Roxy and DC Shoes. In 2018, Boardriders acquired Billabong International Limited, gaining the Billabong, Element, Von Zipper, RVCA and XCEL brands. Quiksilver manufactures and sells a wide range of products that include sportswear (swimsuits), clothing (T-shirts, polo shirts, flannels, jackets, hoodies, pants, shorts), footwear (sneakers, sandals), and accessories (hats, backpacks, and wallets). The company also produces a line of apparel for young women, under the Roxy brand. Another line of apparel for women is sold under the brand Quiksilver Women. In 2013, Quiksilver initiated a turnaround pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodhi Meares
Jodhi Meares (born 24 March 1971) is an Australian glamour model, television personality and fashion designer. Career Meares took her first steps into the spotlight when she was chosen as a model for Moove, a brand of flavoured milk. In 1992, she sang in the band Euphoria, for which she wrote the song "Karma". Meares later made her name as a glamour model, before establishing her own swimwear label Tigerlily Swimwear. Meares is an occasional reporter for the Nine Network's travel show '' Getaway''. She has also appeared three times on the Nine Network's clip show '' 20 to 1''. She was the host for FOX8's '' Australia's Next Top Model'' in 2007 and 2008, taking over from Erika Heynatz and joining the likes of international hosts Lisa Snowdon (UK) and creator Tyra Banks (US). In both of those seasons, the models have appeared in advertisements for Meares' former swimsuit line, Tigerlilly. Meares' tenure was not widely regarded; critics and fans of the show were shocked that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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