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Reed Krakoff
Reed Krakoff (born February 20, 1964) is an American fashion designer and former creative director of Coach and his own eponymous brand. Early life and education Krakoff was raised in Weston, Connecticut, one of three children, to Robert L. Krakoff, former chief executive officer and chairman of Nielsen Business Media, and Sandra Krakoff (née Gusky), a consultant, both originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Parsons School of Design. Career Krakoff worked at Ralph Lauren Corporation for five years and then took a job as creative director at Tommy Hilfiger Corporation.New York Times: "Another Notch in His Belt at Coach" By MICHAEL SCHULMAN October 24, 2012 In 1996, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coach, Inc
Coach New York, commonly known as Coach, is an American luxury fashion house headquartered in New York City & specialized in handbags, luggage, and accessories, as well as ready-to-wear. Coach licenses its name and branding to Luxottica for eyewear and Paris-baseInterparfumsfor fragrances. Stuart Vevers has been the executive creative director since June of 2013. It is the main subsidiary of Tapestry, Inc., formerly known as Coach, Inc. History 1941–1985 Coach was founded in 1941, as a family-run workshop in a loft on 34th Street in Manhattan, with six leather-workers who made wallets and billfolds by hand. In 1946, Miles Cahn (1921–2017) and his wife Lillian (1923–2013) joined the company. Miles and Lillian Cahn were owners of a leather handbag manufacturing business and were knowledgeable about leatherworks and business. By 1950, Cahn had taken over the company. During the early years, Cahn noticed the distinctive properties and qualities of the leather used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Amfitheatrof
Francesca Amfitheatrof is an American jewelry designer. She was from 2018 until 2025 the artistic director for watches and jewelry at Louis Vuitton. From 2013 to 2017 she was the design director of Tiffany & Company Early life Francesca Amfitheatrof was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1968. She is the daughter of a Russian-American father, the bureau chief of ''Time'', and an Italian mother, a fashion publicist for Valentino and Giorgio Armani. Amfitheatrof attended Cobham Hall School, a boarding school in England, while her parents lived in Moscow in the 1980s, but spent her childhood in New York, Moscow, Tokyo, and Rome. She has a sister. At Cobham Hall, her school friends included the socialite Annabelle Neilson. She began her studies with a foundation course at Chelsea College of Arts, followed by a bachelor's degree at London's Central St. Martins and an MA at the Royal College of Art in 1993. In the same year, her first silverware collection was presented by Jay Jopling of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Fashion Designers
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Living People
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New Canaan, Connecticut
New Canaan () is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 20,622 according to the 2020 census. The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region. About an hour from New York City by train, the town is considered part of Connecticut's Gold Coast. The town is bounded on the south by Darien, to the west by Stamford, on the east by Wilton, on the southeast by Norwalk, and on the north by Lewisboro and Pound Ridge in Westchester County, New York. New Canaan is known for its architecture and public parks such as Waveny Park, and a town center with boutiques. Residents sing carols on God's Acre every Christmas Eve, a town tradition since 1916. History In 1731, Connecticut's colonial legislature established Canaan Parish as a religious entity in northwestern Norwalk and northeastern Stamford. The right to form a Congregational church was granted to the few families scattered through the area. As inhabitants of Norwalk or Stamfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huguette Clark
Huguette Marcelle Clark (June 9, 1906 – May 24, 2011) was an American painter, heiress, and philanthropist, who became well known again late in life as a recluse, living in hospitals for more than 20 years while her various mansions remained unoccupied. The youngest daughter of Montana senator and industrialist William A. Clark, she spent her early life in Paris before relocating with her family to New York City, where she was educated at the Spence School. After a short-lived marriage ended in 1930, Clark returned to her residence at 907 Fifth Avenue, a large twelfth-floor apartment that she significantly expanded to occupying two floors. She also meticulously maintained Bellosguardo, a large familial estate in Santa Barbara, California, although she never returned to the property after the 1950s. Clark spent much of her life outside of the public sphere, devoting her time to painting, the arts, and collecting various antiquities, primarily toys and dolls. In 1952, she pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the group's main songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985. Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973), ''Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album), Wish You Were Here'' (1975), ''Animals (Pink Floyd album), Animals'' (1977), ''The Wall'' (1979), and ''The Final Cut (album), The Final Cut'' (1983). By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most acclaimed and commercially successful groups in popular music. Amid creative differences, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material. They settled out of court in 1987. Waters's solo work includes the studio albums ''The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking'' (1984), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Onassis
Jackie or Jacky may refer to: People and fictional characters * Jackie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters named Jackie or Jacky ** Jackie, current ring name of female professional wrestler Jacqueline Moore ** Jackie Lee (Irish singer) (born 1936), also known as "Jacky" ** Sagar Alias Jacky, Indian film character * Jarrhan Jacky (born 1989), Australian rules football player Arts and entertainment Films * ''Jackie'' (1921 film), directed by John Ford * ''Jacky'' (film), a 2000 Dutch film * ''Jackie'' (2010 film), an Indian Kannada -language film directed by Kannada director Soori * ''Jackie'' (2012 film), a Dutch film * ''Jackie'' (2016 film), a biographical drama about Jackie Kennedy Music Albums * ''Jackie'' (Jackie DeShannon album) (1972) * ''Jackie'' (Ciara album) (2015) * ''Jacky'' (album), a 2006 album by Joker Xue Songs * "Jacky" (Jacques Brel song) (1965) * "Jackie" (Elisa Fiorillo song) (1987) * "Jackie", a song from the 1987 album ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Hampton, New York
East Hampton is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in southeastern Suffolk County, New York United States. It is located at the eastern end of the South Shore (Long Island), South Shore of Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York. At the time of the 2020 United States census, it had a total population of 28,385. The town includes the village (New York), village of East Hampton (village), New York, East Hampton, as well as the Hamlet (New York), hamlets of Montauk, New York, Montauk, Amagansett, New York, Amagansett, Wainscott, New York, Wainscott, and Springs, New York, Springs. It also includes part of the incorporated village of Sag Harbor. East Hampton is located on a peninsula, bordered on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by Block Island Sound and to the north by Gardiners Bay, Napeague, Napeague Bay and Fort Pond Bay. To the west is western Long Island, reaching to the East River and New York City. The Town has eight state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasata
Lasata is an estate in East Hampton, New York, that was the childhood summer home of the future First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis until she was about 12. Description The two-story, gray-stucco mansion (also known as the George Schurman house) at 121 Further Lane was built in 1917 on two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and three blocks from the Maidstone Club. Included on the grounds was a stable for , tack room, jumping ring and paddock, extensive vegetable gardens, a grape arbor and Maude Bouvier's "Italian garden," edged with boxwood and dotted with classical statues. History The house belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's paternal grandparents John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (referred to as "the Major") and Maude Sergeant Bouvier. The Bouviers' first summer residence in East Hampton was a simple house called Wildmoor, on Apaquogue Road in Georgica, which the Major bought about 1910. In 1925 the Major's wife, Maude Sergeant (whose family line traces back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hardy (jewelry)
John Hardy, established in Bali in 1975, creates artisan handcrafted jewelry. Each of John Hardy’s distinctive collections conveys evocative symbolism and honors the transmission of creative energy from the artist to the wearer. Since inception, the company has been deeply rooted in the essential values of community, artisanship, and sustainability. History John Hardy jewelry was founded in 1975 by Canadian designer-and-artist John Hardy. He visited Bali in the mid-1970s and the island's jewelry-making traditions raised his interest. He began learning the techniques of the local artisans then developed his first pieces by applying new design concepts to traditional Balinese techniques. The John Hardy compound was built in Mambal, Bali in 1996 and is the company production center where the jewelry is created. It also is a living and gathering space with an organic farm and low impact buildings. In 1999, Guy Bedarida, a senior designer of haute joaillerie of the Place Vendôme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
