Unreferenced date December 2009 van stub Image Bedford WLG Two Ton 1933 reg AYT 640.jpg thumb 1933 Bedford two ton Luton van. Image Ford Transit Luton.jpg thumb A Ford Transit van with Luton body A Luton body is a style of commercial vehicle body incorporating an enclosed box body extended over the cab. It takes its name from the town of Luton , in Bedfordshire , where the Bedford Vehicles Bedford commercial vehicle plant was located. It was invented by Mr B.E. Bertie Barrett who owned a haulage business in Luton which had, as its principal source of clientele, the millinery industry which made the town famous in the early twentieth century. Hats, many of which were made of straw, were distributed in hatboxes which were bulky, but had little weight. Since trucks were mostly delivered without bodies at the time just a chassis and cab , Mr Barrett had bodies built which extended over the cab and most of the way over the bonnet of the truck as well. The front of the Luton was tied to the front bumper of the truck by means of a metal pole on either side. The body style is common in medium commercial vehicles such as the Ford Transit , as well as larger vehicles especially those used by household removals companies. More modern examples may be streamlined to reduce wind resistance. Some commercial vehicles have a wind deflector on the cab roof, but this is not a Luton body the Luton is functional and can be accessed from the main body. The portion of the body that rests over the cab is referred to as the peak, also referred to, in some quarters as a luton, or a kick. Many commercial vehicles have tilting cabs. To allow for this the floor of the Luton may be hinged, and there may be a hinged flap at the front. See also Box truck DEFAULTSORT Luton Body Category Car body styles Category Trucks Category Vehicles ... more details
unreferenced date August 2007 Image The Downing Centre.JPG thumb right 200px Downing Centre, former Mark Foys department store Image Mark Foys Sydney Mansions.JPG 200px right thumb Sydney Mansions, former Mark Foys warehouse, Mark Foys was a department store in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia , founded by Francis Foy and his brother Mark Foy 1865 1950 and named after their father Mark Foy Senior . The store started trading from its Liverpool Street, Sydney Liverpool Street premises in 1909. The store had Australia s first escalator . In 1964 Mark Foys opened a store in Eastwood NSW followed in 1966 at Burwood NSW . In 1980, when it ceased trading after going into receivership , the City Piazza building briefly became Grace Bros Piazza until 1982. The natural shift of the retailing hub further north of the CBD, around Pitt Street Mall , led to its closure. The building is now used as a complex of state courthouses known as the Downing Centre, Sydney Downing Centre . However, its former role is preserved in the ornate tilework on the facade and surroundings. The Mark Foys warehouse is a heritage brownstone building located in nearby Goulburn Street, Sydney Goulburn Street , which has been converted into residential apartments known as Sydney Mansions. Mark Foy also founded the Hydro Majestic Hotel at Medlow Bath, New South Wales Medlow Bath near Katoomba and Australia s Oldest Open Boat Sailing Club the Sydney Flying Squadron, founded in 1891 External links http adbonline.anu.edu.au biogs A080728b.htm?hilite mark 3Bfoy gallery Image Mark Foys entrance.JPG Image Mark Foys silks and millinery signs.JPG gallery Category Defunct department stores of Australia Category Companies based in Sydney Australia company stub ... more details
Tulls Corner is an unincorporated area unincorporated community in Somerset County, Maryland Somerset County , Maryland , United States . ref gnis 591438 ref History Tulls Corner is located in Quindocqua just west of Quindocqua United Methodist Church , at the intersection of Tulls Corner Road and L. Q. Powell Road, near Marion Station, Maryland . At one time it was a busy, flourishing, self sustaining center of activity with numerous homes and places of business. It started originally from a crossroads store prior to the American Revolutionary War and expanded gradually until it reached its height shortly after the end of the American Civil War . It is named after the Tull family, who evidently came to Somerset County about 1666 from Northampton County, Virginia . Thomas Tull IV 1750 1818 created the settlement which became known as Tulls Corner. He owned a grist mill and became an extensive farmer and ship owner. At that time, the settlement consisted of several homes, three or four stores, a post office , shoe shop, blacksmith shop, tannery, grist mill, and a nearby school and church. Later a saloon, millinery shop, barrel factory, tomato cannery and other businesses were added. After its hey day, it declined into obscurity. The Tulls are completely gone from the area and the name of the community is almost extinct. ref cite web url http www.juch.net tullscorner.htm title TULL S CORNER, MARYLAND, An excerpt from Quindocqua, Maryland Indian Country , by Woodrow T. Wilson, published in 1980 date 2009 01 29 work Tulls Corner, Maryland publisher Woodrow T. Wilson ref See also St. Paul s Protestant Episcopal Church Tulls Corner, Maryland References reflist Somerset County, Maryland Maryland geo stub coord 38 0 55 N 75 45 15 W type city region US MD source GNIS enwiki display title Category Populated places in Somerset County, Maryland Category Unincorporated communities in Maryland ... more details
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Blue Sea is a flamboyant statement piece it is millinery theatre, in the tradition of sensational ... millinery and fashion. Deep Blue Sea drew media attention for its extravagance and for its ... blue play of colour, carved and highly polished by Daniela L Abbate Opal Millinery Hatmaking References ... more details
Infobox NRHP name Alois and Annie Weber House nrhp type image caption location 802 Orleans Ave., Keokuk, Iowa lat degrees 40 lat minutes 24 lat seconds 9 lat direction N long degrees 91 long minutes 22 long seconds 44 long direction W locmapin Iowa area built c. 1873 architect architecture added April 16, 2002 governing body Private mpsub refnum 02000375 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref The Alois and Annie Weber House in Keokuk, Iowa , United States was built c. 1873. The Second Empire architecture Second Empire style house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. ref name nris The house is noteworthy for its tall narrow windows and high ceilings. ref name Keokuk cite web url http www.keokukiowatourism.org register.htm title Keokuk s National Register of Historic Places publisher City of Keokuk accessdate 2011 05 19 last first ref Alois Weber founded A. Weber & Co., a hardware business and was known throughout the Midwest. ref name Keokuk He ran the business until his death in 1917. His wife Annie owned a millinery shop from 1856 1887. She died in 1898. References Reflist National Register of Historic Places Lee County NRHP DEFAULTSORT Weber, Alois And Annie, House Category Houses completed in 1873 Category Second Empire architecture in Iowa Category Houses in Lee County, Iowa Category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Category National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Iowa ... more details
Infobox NRHP name Iowa Building image Iowa Building.jpg caption location 221 4th Ave., SE., br Cedar Rapids, Iowa lat degrees 41 lat minutes 58 lat seconds 36 lat direction N long degrees 91 long minutes 39 long seconds 53 long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin Iowa built 1913 1914 architect architecture Renaissance Revival architecture Renaissance Revival added February 17, 1983 area governing body Private mpsub refnum 83000385 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref The Iowa Building is an historic structure located in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa , United States . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. ref name nris History The building is seven stories tall and rises convert 102 ft m 0 above the ground. ref name emporis cite web url http www.emporis.com building iowabuilding cedarrapids ia usa title Iowa Building publisher emporis.com accessdate 2012 01 28 last first ref Seven construction workers were killed in 1913 when the top two floors collapsed during construction. The building was completed the following year. It housed a millinery company named the Lyman Company until the building was bought and renamed in 1933. References reflist National Register of Historic Places Category Buildings and structures completed in 1914 Category Renaissance Revival architecture in Iowa Category Buildings and structures in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Category National Register of Historic Places in Linn County, Iowa Category Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Category Office buildings in Iowa ... more details
1949 1943 Winnie Norman Norell Special Awards Lilly Dach millinery John Frederics millinery Additional ... Awards Phelps Associates leather accessories Sally Victor millinery 1945 Winnies Gilbert Adrian ... milliner Adolfo millinery 1956 Winnies Luis Estevez Sally Victor Return Award James Galanos Hall ... Award Halston millinery 1963 Winnie Rudi Gernreich Return Award Bill Blass Special Awards Arthur ... Award Anne Klein Special Awards Adolfo milliner Adolfo millinery Halston millinery Julian Tomchin ... Hatters Patricia Underwood millinery Ted Muehling jewellery Jackson Allen & Tim Veness Special Award ... more details
File Kate in Ottawa for Canada Day 2011 croped.jpg thumb Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge wearing a red fascinator during her visit to Canada in 2011 File Royal Wedding hat of Princess Beatrice of York.svg thumb Drawing of Princess Beatrice s fascinator by Philip Treacy A fascinator is a headpiece , a style of Hatmaking millinery . The word originally referred to a fine, lacy head covering akin to a shawl and made from wool or lace , but mostly feathers. In the modern usage, it refers to a woman s alternative to hat for formal attire it is usually a large hair decoration on a band or clip with elaborate trimmings and decoration like a formal hat and it can incorporate a base to make it a miniature hat. Today, a fascinator may be worn instead of a hat on occasions where hats were traditionally worn such as weddings or as an evening accessory, when it may be called a cocktail hat . It is generally worn with fairly formal attire. A substantial fascinator is a fascinator of some size or bulk. They have been mentioned in the press, due to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth pronouncing new standards of dress required for entry to the Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot . ref http www.ascot.co.uk ?page Royal Enclosure Dress Code Images&type StandaloneRoyalTemplate Royal Enclosure page of official Ascot website. URL accessed 25 January 2008 ref In 2012 Royal Ascot announced that women will have to wear hats, not fascinators, as part of a tightening of the dress code in Royal Ascot s Royal Enclosure this summer. In previous years female racegoers were simply advised that many ladies wear hats. ref http www.bbc.co.uk news uk england berkshire 16607875 BBC Website Fascinators in ban at Royal Ascot s Royal Enclosure URL accessed 21 January 2012 ref Bigger than a barrette , modern fascinators are commonly made with feather s, flower s or bead s. ref http www.nytimes.com 2011 10 04 fashion 04iht rhats04.html?pagewanted all Millinery Madness Hat Makers With Attitude ref ... more details
cleanup date May 2011 William Chambers is an award winning Scotland Scottish hat designer who has been creating bespoke hats and headpieces since 2007. His designs have appeared on the heads of numerous celebrities, including pop singers R is n Murphy , Ana Matronic , Joan Jett and Kelis and Royal Ascot TV presenter Suzi Perry . William Chambers won Scottish Accessory Designer of the Year at the Scottish Fashion Awards in 2010. William Chambers studied at the Scottish College of Textiles and gained a First Class Hons degree in Textile Design in 2001. There he was awarded for innovation in his field by The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters and worked for textile consultant Carruthers Associates, developing textiles for their client DuPont . Following graduation he sold his textile designs through the London Fashion Forum. In early 2007 William studied millinery at Metropolitan University, Glasgow , Scotland, creating a collection that was shown at Glasgow Fashion Week. He set up William Chambers Millinery shortly after this and received a kick start to his career when pop star and fashion icon Roisin Murphy wore one of his hats on several dates of her European tour, resulting in much press attention. In 2008 and again in 2009 William was nominated as Accessory Designer of the Year at the Scottish Fashion Awards and appeared in The List magazine The List magazine s Hot 100 Scottish Movers and Shakers of the Year. He created headwear for Scottish fashion label Olanic s London Fashion Week show and the Johnstons of Elgin homage fashion show at the Scottish Style Awards. In late 2008 he came first in the nationwide Creative 30 competition a project set up by Vice magazine Vice Magazine , Volvo , The Independent and Yahoo to discover the UK s most talented creative young people. Following this, he opened his Glasgow city centre studio and showroom in January 2009. In March 2010 William was invited to create several hats and headpieces for the Dressed To Kilt Fashio ... more details
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. Dach retired in 1968, and her New York millinery business was taken over by her daughter Suzanne ... American Fashion Critics Award for millinery in 1943. She died in Louveciennes , France. Her grandson ... more details
Confidence is a small unincorporated area unincorporated community in Wayne County, Iowa Wayne County , Iowa , United States . Located in south central Iowa, the community lies along County Highway J18 in the northeastern corner of its county, just west of Rathbun Lake . It was originally platted in 1858, and its population and economic activity peaked in the 1920s, the peak of coal mining activity in the area. The first coal mines in the area date from the around the 1860 s, although in the 19th century, they were small, serving only the local market. By the end of the 19th century, L. Frye was the principal mine owner in the area. ref James H. Lees, History of Coal Mining in Iowa, Chapter III of http books.google.com books?id 1BUMAAAAYAAJ&pg PA540 Iowa Geological Survey Annual Report, 1908 , English, Des Moines, 1909, page 540. ref Frye s mines were in the Mystic, Iowa Mystic coal seam , which was not much over convert 2 ft m thick in this area. In 1905, he opened a new mine with a convert 110 ft m adj on shaft and a steam hoist. This mine was just 1 4 mile south of an older Frye mine that had mined out just convert 15 acre m2 of coal. Other mines in the area included the J. Hayhurst Bank and the Jared Bank. ref Henry Hinds, The Coal Deposits of Iowa, Chapter I of http books.google.com books?id 1BUMAAAAYAAJ&pg PA258 Iowa Geological Survey Annual Report, 1908 , English, Des Moines, 1909, page 258. ref The town changed drastically as a result of the Great Depression . In its prime, the town boasted a millinery, a tavern, a shoe shop, and a bank. The bank paid off all its deposits upon closing in 1935. By the end of the 20th century, it was a virtual ghost town, with only a handful of occupied houses, a derelict church, a cemetery, a park, and the New Providence Baptist Church http freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com rkross ChurchesOfWayne churches of wayne co 36.pdf , housed in its current building since 1981. Its postal address designations are split between Me ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 See also 1921 in organized crime , 1922 other events of 1922 , 1923 in organized crime and the Timeline of organized crime list of years in Organized Crime . Events New Orleans crime family leader Carlo Matranga retires from the organization appointing Sylvestro Carolla Sylvestro Sam Carolla in his place. Moses Annenberg purchases the Daily Racing Form gaining a virtual monopoly over the distribution of race track information in the United States . Louis Buchalter is sent to prison for burglary . New York crime family founders Joseph Profaci and Vincent Mangano arrive in the United States from Palermo, Sicily . Louis Romano , an associate of Frank Nitti Francesco Frank The Enforcer Nitti Nitto , is indicted for murder, however is later found acquitted. On Nitti s behalf, Romano would later assume control of the Chicago Bartender and Beverage Dispenser s Union, Local 278. May 6 Pellegrino Scaglia , a member of the Colorado syndicate, is shot to death. Scaglia s death causes Colorado and Kansas City gangsters to hold a conference with representatives from New York to act as mediators. May 6 Timothy D. Murphy Timothy D. Big Tim Murphy , Cornelius Shea and six other labor leaders are indicted for murdering a Chicago policeman. The state withdraws the indictment in June for lack of evidence, refiles in August, and withdraws a final time in November. May 8 Vincenzo Terranova is killed outside his home, most likely by Rocco Valenti. July 9 Joseph Peter DiCarlo , founder of the present day Bufalino crime family , dies of natural causes and succeeded by Stefano Magaddino . August 9 Rocco Valenti , a leading member of the Morello crime family , attempts to assassinate Joe Masseria after killing his two bodyguard s, and upon cornering Masseria in a Second Avenue Hat millinery shop Masseria manages to escape. Two days later, during peace negotiations with Morrello and Messeria, Valenti is killed by Charles Luciano outside a Twelfth Street restaur ... more details
Burritt s Rapids is a small village located on the Rideau River in eastern Ontario . Location map Ottawa lat 44.98339 long 75.79923 caption Location of Burritts Rapids in Ottawa The hamlet was named after Stephen Burritt , whose family was the first to settle in this area. At one time, the hamlet prospered due to its location on the Rideau Canal . The community straddles the river, so part is located in Rideau Township, Ontario Rideau Township , now part of Ottawa , and part in North Grenville, Ontario North Grenville Township . There is a canal lock lock on the canal to bypass rapids here, the Burritts Rapids Bridge which crosses the canal and a stationary bridge which crosses the river. In 1793, Stephen and Daniel Burritt, from Arlington, Vermont, settled in the vicinity of the area now known as Burritt s Rapids. A plaque was erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board commemorating the founding of Burritt s Rapids. By 1812, Burritt s Rapids had become a bustling hamlet. At the peak of its prosperity, it had telegraphic and daily mail, 2 general stores, a bakery, a millinery shop, 2 shoe shops, a tin and stove store, a grist mill, a woolen mill, a tannery, 3 blacksmith shops, 3 wagon shops, a cabinet shop, 2 churches, 2 schools, 2 hotels, a bank and an Orange Lodge. The hamlet s natural advantages as a transportation centre were enhanced by the opening of the Rideau Canal in 1831. Burritt s Rapids was the site of the first bridge across the Rideau River. A post office was opened in 1839. Unfortunately, the hamlet was by passed by the railway, and its importance gradually diminished with the decline of the canal as a means of transportation. Public high school students in this area go to South Carleton High School in Richmond, Ontario Richmond . History of Burritt s Rapids Community Hall The Hall was built in 1855 by John French and operated as a general store. In 1892, the building was sold and it changed hands several more times during the earl ... more details
Box Hill Institute is a secondary and tertiary education institute based in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria Melbourne in Victoria, Australia Victoria , Australia , with additional campuses overseas. It has three campuses in Box Hill, Victoria Box Hill Elgar, Whitehorse and Nelson , one in Nunawading, Victoria Nunawading Ceylon Campus and an accredited extended campus used for training in Abu Halifa , Kuwait . History Box Hill Institute is the descendant of two Box Hill area technical schools. Box Hill Technical School for Girls and Women was opened on 4 September 1924, having welcomed sixty five Junior pupils some six months before. The girls primary studied domestic subjects like housewifery , cookery , Hatmaking millinery and dressmaking . Some girls also took courses like accounting and secretary secretarial work . On 2 February 1943 the Box Hill Technical School for Boys was established because many boys in the eastern suburbs were being turned away from Swinburne University of Technology Swinburne Technical School . They studied subjects like sheetmetal sheetmetal work , technical drawing and carpentry . Throughout the 1960s and 1970s both technical schools added post secondary options like certificates in business studies and engineering . The Girl s Technical School started the first business certificate course in 1967. The Girls Technical School was renamed Whitehorse Technical School in 1971. Around this time the Boy s Technical School separated its tertiary technical offerings from the secondary ones, the tertiary section becoming Box Hill Technical School . Both schools were declared colleges of Technical and Further Education in late 1981. On 25 January 1984, Whitehorse Technical School and Box Hill Technical School merged to become Box Hill College of TAFE . The College was renamed Box Hill Institute ten years later. Notable alumni George Calombaris , chef restaurateur, judge on Masterchef Australia Chris Cheney , Musician Guitarist Lead Voca ... more details
Image OHMap doton Petersburg.png right Location of Petersburg, Ohio unreferenced article date June 2008 Petersburg is a small unincorporated area unincorporated community in southeastern Springfield Township, Mahoning County, Ohio Springfield Township , Mahoning County, Ohio Mahoning County , Ohio , United States . It is part of the Youngstown, Ohio Youngstown Warren, Ohio Warren Boardman, Ohio Boardman , OH Pennsylvania PA Youngstown Warren Boardman, OH PA Metropolitan Area Metropolitan Statistical Area . The community was founded in the 1790s by Germans German immigrants from Pennsylvania . Including those from Pennsylvania was Peter Musser, Israel Warner and family who are now buried outside of Petersburg in the Old Springfield Township Cemetery along with the Rudesil family and other early families. Petersburg was named after Peter Musser by his son, Peter Musser Junior, before most of the Musser children migrated to other parts of Ohio and to Missouri . Petersburg s post office was called Subrosa at one point in the early history and the first Post Master was Jacob Musser, the only son of Peter to stay in Petersburg and was noted to be the first Squire of Petersburg. Petersburg used to be the principal village of Springfield township early in its history. Many business that were in Petersburg included the Petersburg Grain Mill, Petersburg Creamery, a butcher shop, a coffin shop, a millinery, a drug store, 2 grocery stores, a liquor store, a blacksmith shop, three churches, a barber shop, a veterinarian, a violin maker, Warner s Inn, the Mahoning House, Petersburg Inn, Knesal s Hardware,and many other little shops of general merchandise. The building that was once used as the Petersburg Inn burned to the ground around 1955 and was believed to have been built around 1800. A few other significant historical buildings in the community were St. John s Lutheran Church Petersburg, Ohio St. John s Lutheran Church and the Petersburg Presbyterian Church that were founded ... more details
Image Company Shocked Gillray.jpeg thumb 300px In Company shocked at a Lady getting up to Ring the Bell 1805 , James Gillray caricatured suitors eager to save a lady the effort of using a bell pull. A bell pull is a woven textile , pull cord , Handle grip handle , knob , or other object that connects with a bell instrument bell or bell wire, and which rings a bell when pulled. Bell pulls are used to summon workers in homes of people who have butler s, maid s or other servants, ref cite news url http query.nytimes.com mem archive free pdf?res F60B1EFF3F5A1A738DDDAB0894D1405B8485F0D3 title Englishmen s Dining Rooms newspaper New York Times date 2 September 1894 accessdate 28 October 2010 ref ref name WhiteWhite2004 cite book author1 Larry Nash White author2 Emily Blankenship White title Marietta url http books.google.com books?id aypgOGTrv30C&pg PA34 accessdate 15 November 2011 date February 2004 publisher Arcadia Publishing isbn 978 0 7385 3231 8 pages 34 ref and often have a tassel at the bottom. ref cite news url http paperspast.natlib.govt.nz cgi bin paperspast?a d&d PBH19111118.2.83.10 title New London Millinery newspaper Poverty Bay Herald date 18 November 1911 accessdate 28 October 2010 ref The bell pull is one element of a complex interior mechanical network which typically in Victorian architecture Victorian times involved a range of bell pulls in different rooms moreover, these bell connections link to a central bank of bells in a room where servants would await commands. ref name WhiteWhite2004 cite book author1 Larry Nash White author2 Emily Blankenship White title Marietta url http books.google.com books?id aypgOGTrv30C&pg PA34 accessdate 17 November 2011 date February 2004 publisher Arcadia Publishing isbn 978 0 7385 3231 8 pages 34 ref Central bell panel Main Central bell panel In the XIX century some hotels used to have a panel with a bell for each room as a Centralized bell system . See also Door bell Door knocker References reflist DEFAULTSORT Bell P ... more details
Taxobox name Double banded Argus status EX status system iucn3.1 image Argus ocellatus & Argus bipunctatus.jpg image width 250px image caption Feathers of Argus ocellatus and Argus bipunctatus fourth regnum Animal ia phylum Chordata classis Aves ordo Galliformes familia Phasianidae subfamilia Phasianinae genus Argusianus species A. bipunctatus binomial Argusianus bipunctatus binomial authority Wood, 1871 A mysterious pheasant , the Double banded Argus , Argusianus bipunctatus , is known only from the portion of a single primary flight feather . It was described in 1871 from this feather piece, found in a Hatmaking millinery shipment imported to London . Its origin was hypothesized to be from Java island Java , Indonesia or Tioman Island of Malaysia , because of the Great Argus absence from these locations. Parkes 1992 vehemently rejected the species validity and argued that the Double banded Argus almost certainly represents a mutant form of the Great Argus . The IUCN , following the precautionary principle , lists this taxon as extinct . While the feather is indeed quite distinct, it represents a fairly simple divergence The entirely asymmetrically pattern vanes are instead near symmetrical and both bear the darker brown shaftward area with innumerable whitish speckles. The shaft is thinner than usual and the feather would probably not have been useful for flight. Nothing similar has come to notice ever since, and as the feather piece is not a composite of two feather halves glued together but a natural albeit peculiar specimen, a hoax or fake can be ruled out. Nonetheless all conjecture that has been built around the feather piece, all that can be said is that at some time around 1870 an argus pheasant was shot in an unknown location which bore at least one such feather. Even if this one known individual was the last remnant of a disappearing population, it is hard to believe that only a single feather would have been taken from an unusual specimen of a well known ... more details
orphan date January 2010 BLP sources date July 2009 Infobox fashion designer image image size caption name Rod Keenan birth date July 3, 1968 birth place Great Bend, Kansas label name Rod Keenan New York website http www.rodkeenannewyork.com Rod Keenan , an United States American Hatmaking milliner , ref cite news title Fedoras Fly and Trilbys, Too Downtown Tips Its Hat to Harlem url http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res FA0E17F8385B0C748DDDA10894DC404482 work The New York Times date August 17, 2004 accessdate September 8, 2010 ref was born in Great Bend, Kansas on July 3, 1968. Professionally he specializes in the creation of a handcrafted men s headwear collection offered under his label Rod Keenan New York . Early years and education Rod grew up in the small town of Great Bend, Kansas . He graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas , attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and the Parsons School of Design in Paris , France . Career He is a famously reclusive New York Hatmaking milliner , well known in fashion circles for re establishing men s headwear as a fashion commodity in the early 1990s. Rod is additionally noted as a pioneer for choosing to locate his design studio in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem , New York . Inducted into the Council of Fashion Designers of America CFDA in 2006, Rod has spent the past few years expanding his customer base from celebrities and fashion magazines to a broader base of fashion consumers. Inspiration Drawing on sources as divergent as the Dadaists, designers such as Elsa Schiaparelli , ancient Egypt , and Kurt Weill , Rod maintains a uniquely New York vernacular while designing in the finest Italian tradition, executed with British millinery precision. Clientele In addition to creating hats for celebrities such as Elvis Costello , the Scissor Sisters , Snoop Dogg , Justin Timberlake , and Brad Pitt , among others, Rod has also designed hats for designers Paul Smith fashion desig ... more details
For the Canadian Brigadier General Guy Laroche Canadian No footnotes date March 2011 Guy Laroche IPA fr i la was a French fashion designer 16 July 1921 in La Rochelle , France 17 February 1989 and founder of the eponymous company. Laroche began his career in Hatmaking millinery and, from 1949, Laroche worked for Jean Desses and eventually became his assistant. In 1955, he visited the US to investigate new ready to wear manufacturing methods. 1956 or 1957, he founded a high fashion atelier at 37 avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Paris. In his first collection that was favorably received, he reintroduced vibrant colors such as pink, orange, coral, topaz and turquoise. His clothes also featured plunging neck and back lines. Known as being humble and gracious as opposed to the haughty nature of most Parisian designers he designed haute couture but practical clothing for women. And, for the American market, he was one of the first to create separates. In 1961, he moved to larger quarters, a townhouse at 29 avenue Montaigne , Paris opened a boutique there and introduced his first ready to wear collection. In 1966, Laroche introduced Fidji, his first women s fragrance designed men s ready to wear and opened the Guy Laroche Monsieur boutique. He created other fragrances as 1972 Drakkar 1977 J ai Os 1982 Drakkar Noir 1986 Clandestine 1993 Horizon 1999 Drakkar Dynamik Laroche died in Paris on 17 February 1989, at age of 67. In November 2007, franco Swedish designer Marcel Marongiu took over as Artistic Director of Guy Laroche. Marcel Marongiu just completed his third successful runway show with the AU WI 2009 Collection. References Anne Rapin March 1996 . Interview with Fashion Designer Michel Klein , Label France magazine, No. 23, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France http www.imdb.com name nm0488416 bio IMDB biography page External links fashiondesigner id guy laroche http vintagepatterns.wikia.com wiki Category Guy Laroche Sewing patterns by Guy Laroche L Oreal Brands Grands c ... more details
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