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Flamenco Skirt
The ''traje de flamenca'' ("flamenco outfit") or ''traje de gitana'''', Nancy Pereda, 22 April 2015, Yo Dona, El Mundo (" Gitana outfit") is the dress traditionally worn by women at Ferias (festivals) in Andalusia, Spain. There are two forms: one worn by dancers and the other worn as a day dress. The day dress is body-hugging to mid-thigh, and then continues in multiple layers of ruffles to the ankle. Modern interpretations of the style are difficult to walk in, let alone dance. The dancers' version therefore flares out from higher on the hip to allow freedom of movement. Both versions are trimmed with layers of ruffles on both the skirt and sleeves. The dress is typically brightly colored, usually in black, red or and may be either plain or patterned, with the most famous being the polka dotted ''traje de lunares''. Traditionally, the outfit is completed with a shawl (''mantón de Manila'') worn over the shoulders. The traditional dancer will also wear her hair in a bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manila Shawl
The Manila shawl (Spanish language, Spanish: ''mantón de Manila'' or ''mantón de seda'') is an Embroidery, embroidered silk shawl derived from the Filipino people, Philippine ''alampay'' or scarf (likely from the Luzonian or Tagalog people, Tagalog variant). They were popular in the Philippines, Latin America, and Spain during the Early modern period, colonial era. It was also adopted and became popular in European fashions in the 19th century. In modern times, it is still an aspect of various traditional clothing in Hispanic cultures and is particularly prominent as part of the costume (''traje de flamenca'') of flamenco dancers (''bailaoras'') and Gitanos, Gitana women. Description Manila shawls are square pieces of silk embroidered in chinoiserie-style motifs. The shawls were folded in half like a triangle and worn over the shoulders. History Traditional shawls in the Philippines were known as ''alampay'', these were head and neck coverings among pre-colonial Tagalog peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seville Exposition Of 1929
The Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 (; ) was a world's fair held in Seville, Restoration (Spain), Spain, from 9 May 1929 until 21 June 1930. Countries in attendance of the exposition included: Ditadura Nacional, Portugal, the United States, First Brazilian Republic, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, History of Peru (1919–1930), Peru, Argentina, Presidential Republic (1925–1973), Chile, Colombia, Republic of Cuba (1902–1959), Cuba, United States of Venezuela, Venezuela, the Third Dominican Republic, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and History of Ecuador (1925–1944), Ecuador. Each Spanish region and each of the Provinces of Spain, provinces of Andalusia were also represented. General Miguel Primo de Rivera, then Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, Prime Minister of Spain, gave the opening address. Primo de Rivera allowed the Spanish King Alfonso XIII to give the final words and officially open the exposition. The purpose of the exposition was to improve r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Andalusia
Andalusia ( , ; , ) is the southernmost autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Peninsular Spain, located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognized as a nationalities and regions of Spain, historical nationality and a national reality. The territory is divided into eight provinces of Spain, provinces: Province of Almería, Almería, Province of Cádiz, Cádiz, Province of Córdoba (Spain), Córdoba, Province of Granada, Granada, Province of Huelva, Huelva, Province of Jaén (Spain), Jaén, Province of Málaga, Málaga, and Province of Seville, Seville. Its capital city is Seville, while the seat of High Court of Justice of Andalusia, its High Court of Justice is the city of Granada. Andalusia is immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Region of Mur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seville
Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Seville has a municipal population of about 701,000 , and a Seville metropolitan area, metropolitan population of about 1.5 million, making it the largest city in Andalusia and the List of metropolitan areas in Spain, fourth-largest city in Spain. Its old town, with an area of , contains a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising three buildings: the Alcázar of Seville, Alcázar palace complex, the Seville Cathedral, Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies. The Seville harbour, located about from the Atlantic Ocean, is the only river port in Spain. The capital of Andalusia features hot temperatures in the summer, with daily maximums routinely above in July and August. Seville was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Ford
Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched Tom Ford (brand), his eponymous brand in 2005, having previously been the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent (brand), Yves Saint Laurent. Ford wrote and directed the films ''A Single Man'' (2009) and ''Nocturnal Animals'' (2016). From 2019 to 2022, he was chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Early life Thomas Carlyle Ford was born on August 27, 1961, in Austin, Texas, the son of realtors Shirley Burton (née Shirley Ann Thrasher) and Thomas David Ford (1932–2020).Dingus, Anne"Tom Ford" ''Texas Monthly'' (September 1998). He spent his early life in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, and in San Marcos, Texas, San Marcos, outside Austin. He rearranged furniture in the house at 6, and gave his mother advice on her hair and shoes. His family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, when he was 11. In Santa Fe, he entered St. Michael's High School and later m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentino Garavani
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani (; born 11 May 1932), known mononymously as Valentino, is an Italian fashion designer, the founder of the Valentino (fashion house), Valentino brand and company. His main lines include Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Valentino Roma, and R.E.D. Valentino. Career Early life and 1950s Paris years Valentino was born in Voghera, in the Italian province of Pavia, on the 11th of May 1932. His mother named him after Matinée idol, screen idol Rudolph Valentino. He became interested in fashion while in primary school in his native Voghera, when he apprenticed under his aunt Rosa and local designer Ernestina Salvadeo, an aunt of noted artist Aldo Giorgini. Valentino then moved to Paris to pursue this interest with the help of his mother Teresa de Biaggi and his father Mauro Garavani. There Valentino studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, École des Beaux-Arts and at the Chambre syndicale du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Galliano
John Charles Galliano (born 28 November 1960) is a British fashion designer. He was the creative director of his eponymous label John Galliano and French fashion houses Givenchy and Dior. From 2014 to 2024, Galliano was the creative director of Paris-based fashion house Maison Margiela. Galliano has been named British Designer of the Year four times. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the fifth most influential person in British culture. Early life and education Galliano was born in Gibraltar to a Gibraltarian father of Italian descent, Juan Galliano, and a Spanish mother, Ana Guillén, and has two sisters. His father worked as a plumber. Though registered at birth as John Charles Galliano, he has given his full name in interviews as Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano-Guillén. Galliano's family moved to England when he was six, settling in Streatham and later Dulwich and Brockley, in South London. He was raised in a strict Catholic family. Galliano attended St. Anthony' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), better known as Yves Saint Laurent (, , , ) or YSL, was a French fashion designer who, in 1962, founded his eponymous fashion label. He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers of the twentieth century. Saint Laurent helped women find confidence by looking both comfortable and elegant at the same time. He is credited with having introduced the " Le Smoking" tuxedo suit for women, and he was known for his use of non-European cultural references and diverse models.Yves Saint Laurent's body put to rest ''Fashion Television''. In 1985, historian Caroline Milbank called Saint Laurent "the most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years", adding that he "c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorio & Lucchino
Victorio (Bidu-ya, Beduiat; ca. 1825–October 14, 1880) was a warrior and chief of the Warm Springs band of the Tchihendeh (or Chihenne, often called Mimbreño) division of the central Apaches in what is now the American states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua. In Victorio's War from September 1879 to October 1880, Victorio led a band of Apaches, never numbering more than 200 men, in a running battle with the U.S. and Mexican armies and the civilian population of New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico, fighting two dozen skirmishes and battles. He and most of his followers were killed or captured by the Mexican army in the Battle of Tres Castillos in October 1880. Early life Victorio was born around the year 1825 near the Hacienda Encinillas, Chihuahua City (''Ją’éłąyá''), Mexico and its believed he was baptized with the name of "Pedro Cedillo", on his early childhood he was taken from the hacienda by the Chihenne band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Isla Bonita
"La Isla Bonita" (Spanish for "The Beautiful Island") is a song by American singer Madonna from her third studio album ''True Blue (Madonna album), True Blue'' (1986). Patrick Leonard and Bruce Gaitsch created it as an instrumental Demo (music), demo and offered it to singer Michael Jackson, who turned it down. When Leonard met Madonna to start working on ''True Blue'', he played the demo for her. Madonna came up with the title, wrote the lyrics and produced the song with Leonard. It is her first song with Latin pop, Latin influences. Its instrumentation features flamenco guitar, Latin percussion, maracas, and includes four lines sung in Spanish. The lyrics talk of an island named San Pedro, whose location has been debated. Madonna said the song was her tribute to Latin Americans. Upon its release as the fifth and final single from ''True Blue'' on February 25, 1987, "La Isla Bonita" received generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its Latin-inspired sound. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna Louise Ciccone ( ; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Referred to as the "Queen of Pop", she has been recognized for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting and visual presentation. Madonna's works, which incorporate social, political, sexual, and religious themes, have generated both controversy and critical acclaim. A cultural icon spanning both the 20th and 21st centuries, Madonna has become the subject of various scholarly, literary and artistic works, as well as a mini academic sub-discipline called Madonna studies. Madonna moved to New York City in 1978 to pursue a career in dance. After performing as a drummer, guitarist, and vocalist in the rock bands Breakfast Club and Emmy & the Emmys, she rose to solo stardom with her 1983 eponymous debut album. Madonna has earned a total of 18 multi-platinum albums, including '' Like a Virgin'' (1984), '' True Blue'' (1986), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marisol (actress)
Josefa Flores González (born 4 February 1948), known professionally as Marisol or Pepa Flores, is a retired Spanish singer and actress who was an evolving icon in Spain since her first appearance in 1960 as a child star until her retreat from the spotlight in 1985. Early life Marisol was born Josefa Flores González on 4 February 1948 in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. From early childhood, she demonstrated a love of singing and flamenco dance, passed down to her by her grandmother Victoria. The girl entered a choir and dance group named Los joselitos del cante belonging to the Sección Femenina's national organization . In 1959, she was discovered by film producer Manuel Goyanes. One of her first televised performances with Los joselitos del cante was seen by his daughter Mari Carmen Goyanes, and she convinced her father that the girl she had seen on television was the actress and singer they needed. The producer convinced Pepa Flores's parents, and she ultimately signed an ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
