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Papis Loveday
Papis Loveday (born 3 January 1977) is a Senegalese model and fashion entrepreneur. He gained fame through a United Colors of Benetton worldwide campaign in 2003. In 2011 he founded the brand Papis Loveday, which includes a fragrance line, champagne brand and denim and jeans collection. Biography Childhood and discovery Loveday was born in Dakar. His mother was a diplomat and his father a medical doctor. He has 6 siblings and 19 half-siblings. He graduated from a private high school in Dakar. As a teenager he pursued a career in athletics and was most successful in the 400 metre sprint. With the support of a national sports scholarship, he moved to Paris, where he studied computer science. Loveday was discovered by a sport photographer during his preparations for the athletics world cup. Career Loveday began modelling in 2003. He signed a contract with Riccardo Gay Model Management in Milan. A few weeks later, United Colors of Benetton booked him for a worldwide advertising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etro
Etro is a family-managed Italian fashion house founded in 1968. It is mainly known for its paisley patterns, which the company started making in 1981. History Etro was founded in 1968 by Gerolamo "Gimmo" Etro as a textile design company. By the time the company was born, Gimmo and his wife, Roberta, an antiques dealer, had amassed a collection of 300 antique shawls, still one of the largest private collections in existence today. The main stylistic driver for Etro over its first decades was the paisley pattern, and variations on this theme. The company's headquarters is located in Milan on Via Spartaco, and was refurbished in 1977. The headquarters includes textile art archived in their in-house library. Future textiles head Jacopo Etro later commented on this period, stating that he had started to visit the archive when he was a child, spending many hours copying the fabric designs and experimenting with his own creative style. After a trip to India made by Etro executives, the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racism
Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race or ethnicity. Modern variants of racism are often based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. These views can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems in which different races are ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. There have been attempts to legitimize racist beliefs through scientific means, such as scientific racism, which have been overwhelmingly shown to be unfounded. In terms of political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices or laws, racist ideol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homophobia
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual. It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear and may also be related to religious beliefs. Negative attitudes towards transgender and transsexual people are known as transphobia.* *"European Parliament resolution on homophobia in Europe" Texts adopted Wednesday, 18 January 2006 – Strasbourg Final edition- "Homophobia in Europe" at "A" point * * Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientations that are non-heterosexual. Recognized types of homophobia include ''institutionalized'' homophobia, e.g. religious homophobia and state-sponsored homophobia, and ''internalized'' homophobia, experienced by people who have same-sex attractions, regardless of how they identi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promi Big Brother
''Promi Big Brother'' is a German television reality show based on the Dutch show '' Big Brother'', created by producer John de Mol in 1997, which is airing from 2013. The show followed a number of celebrity contestants, known as Promis (lit. ''Celebrities''), who were isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built Set. In Season 1-7, after the second week, every day, one of the housemates was evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate, named the winner. For the first time, season 8 of Promi Big Brother aired for three weeks. ''Promi Big Brother'' began as a spin-off series to the original '' Big Brother Germany'', and premiered on Sat.1 on 13 September 2013. Comedian Cindy aus Marzahn and television presenter and Comedian Oliver Pocher hosted the first season. Jochen Schropp hosted season two onward. Season five was hosted by Jochen Schropp and Jochen Bendel and from season six onward the show is hosting by Jochen Schropp and Marlene Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promi Big Brother (season 9)
''Promi Big Brother 2021'', also known as ''Promi Big Brother 9'', is the ninth season of the German reality television series '' Promi Big Brother''. The show began airing on 6 August 2021 on Sat.1 and will end after 24 days on 27 August 2021, making it the second longest celebrity season to date. It is the ninth celebrity season and the tenth season of ''Big Brother'' in total to air on Sat.1 to date. Jochen Schropp and Marlene Lufen both returned as hosts of the show. Production Eye Logo Like in the previous season, the eye logo is the same. Teasers In July 2021, a twenty-second teaser promoting the season was released. Opening Intro The song of this year's intro and outro is "The Passenger" from season 1 housemate David Hasselhoff. Like in the previous season, the intro for the matches is " The Hanging Tree" from James Newton Howard featuring Jennifer Lawrence. House This year's overall and house theme is space. As with previous seasons, the house is separated into two ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puls 4
Puls 4 is a terrestrial television channel in Austria. As its name implies, it is the fourth Austrian-wide full-service television channel, behind ORF eins, ORF 2, and ATV. History Puls 4 began as a local Vienna television station called "Puls TV". In 2007, ProSiebenSat.1 Media took over the station outright. On 28 January 2008, with the addition of a nightly newscast, the station relaunched as "Puls 4", Austria's fourth general terrestrial network. Programming Original *'' Austria's Next Topmodel'' *'' The Masked Singer Austria'' Imported *''America's Next Top Model'' *''Miss Earth'' Series *''1600 Penn'' (2017) *''The 4400'' (2008, 2010) *'' Bis in die Spitzen'', German version of ''Cutting It'' (2010) *''Cagney & Lacey'' (2010) *'' Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior'' ''(Criminal Minds: Team Red)'' (2014-2016) *'' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' (2011-2014) *'' CSI: Miami'' (2008–present) *'' CSI: NY'' (2012-2016) *''Dawson's Creek'' (2009) *'' Diagnosis: Murder'' ''(D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switzerland's Next Topmodel
''Switzerland's Next Topmodel'' is a Swiss reality television series and the second local adaptation based on Tyra Banks' '' America's Next Top Model'' after '' Supermodel'' which aired in 2007 and 2008 on the now defunct network 3+. The show sees a number of aspiring models compete against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win the title of ''Switzerland's Next Topmodel'', among other prizes in hopes of a successful career in the modelling industry. History Production of the show was officially announced in September 2017. Host and judges were announced in April 2018. Format Coming from the same production company, both in general look and concept the show takes a lot of inspiration from ''Germany's Next Top Model''. For the first season, the team format (being intact on ''GNTM'' since its eleventh season) was adapted with the judges acting as mentors for some parts of the contestants whereas the final say will exclusively be left to the decision of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany's Next Topmodel
''Germany's Next Topmodel'' (often abbreviated as ''GNTM'') is a German reality television series, based on a concept introduced by Tyra Banks with ''America's Next Top Model''. The competition is hosted by Heidi Klum who also serves as the lead judge and executive producer of the show. The show is heavily criticized in Germany because of the treatment of its contestants. Show format Each annual search of ''Germany's Next Topmodel'' has 10 to 17 episodes and starts with 12–31 contestants. During each episode, one contestant is eliminated, though a double/triple elimination or no elimination was given by the consensus of the judging panel. Makeovers are administered to contestants early in the competition (usually after the first or second elimination in the finals). Differences between ANTM and GNTM While the American version's usually started with thirty-something semi-finalists who are cut down to a batch of between ten and sixteen contestants, ''Germany's Next Top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria's Next Topmodel
''Austria's Next Topmodel'' is an Austrian reality television series based on Tyra Banks's ''America's Next Top Model''. The show sees a series of aspiring models that compete against each other in different competitions, determining who will win the title of ''Austria's Next Topmodel'', among other prizes, with the hope of a successful career in the modeling industry. History For the first four cycles, the show was hosted by Lena Gercke, the winner of the first cycle of ''Germany's Next Topmodel''. Gercke is the first ''Top Model'' winner to become the host of a ''Top Model'' series. The judging panel for the show's first cycle consisted of the head of Vienna-based modeling agency Wiener Models, Andrea Weidler, and runway coach Alamande Belform. It aired from January to February 2009 and was won by Larissa Marolt. As part of her prize package for winning the contest, Marolt won a place on the fourth cycle of ''Germany's Next Topmodel'', where she placed eighth. In mid-2009, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. History On 6 October 1945, five months after the end of World War II in Germany, the ''SZ'' was the first newspaper to receive a license from the US military administration of Bavaria. Thfirst issuewas published the same evening, allegedly printed from the same (repurposed) presses that had printed ''Mein Kampf''. The first article begins with: Declines in ad sales in the early 2000s was so severe that the paper was on the brink of bankruptcy in October 2002. The Süddeutsche survived through a 150 million euro investment by a new shareholder, a regional newspaper chain called Südwestdeutsche Medien. Over a period of three years, the newspaper underwent a reduction in its staff, from 425 to 307, the closing of a regional edition in Düsseld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV8 (Turkish TV Channel)
TV8 is a Turkish free-to-air television channel owned by MNG Media Group, which started broadcasting on 22 February 1999. Its current owner is Acun Medya Acun Medya, is a Turkish media company founded by Acun Ilıcalı, Esat Yöntunç, Çaykun Ertan, Alpay Kazan, Mustafa Kazan and Evren Çağlar on 27 September, 2006. Acun Ilıcalı who is the owner of the company is also the main host in most show .... Aside from having national coverage on terrestrial television, it is also carried on cable operators and satellite providers like Kablo TV, Tivibu, Digiturk and D-Smart. TV8 as a news channel started broadcasting in 2005, becoming part of the format and logo by changing the entertainment channels. The programs include music, entertainment, contests, sports, talk and news. On March 17, 2016, TV8 announced that it had acquired the Formula 1 broadcasting rights for one season. TV8 is the local broadcaster of TV shows like The Voice, Got Talent, Survivor and Utopia. In August 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
