The Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a revolutionary Che Gevara, politicians Winston Churchill and Bill Clinton, writers Somerset Maugham and Mark Twain, the actor and the political figure Arnold Schwarzenegger – these names are well-known and these figures are best known to the world for their political, social, literary and other achievements. Moreover, the abovementioned people highly esteem cigar smoking and, thus, they come as people who own the greatest number of tools and accessories so requisite for this leisurely process and among others there are cigar lighters.
In the light of a variety and availability of glass items, glass ware is still appreciated by plenty people, especially when it comes to cut glass. The cut glass produces a long, lingering and musical tune when you put your finger at the cut-glass edge. So, in Japan the craftsmen make unique musical instruments. A crystal violin, completely transparent, is estimated for fifty thousand USD. Crystal glass tableware is not so much expensive though it is able to produce the charming, unique and so brittle music providing it is properly cared.
Wealthy persons are mostly known for their fortune only. However, despite they make billions, these people possess some personal features that attract people when estimating them. While Warren shovels up money, he has to do with quite conflicting image he created: he is known to be the proved miser and at the same time he privately donates huge amounts for charity purposes.
Fashion industry favours heroines of east-slavic
origin. After a comet-like ascent of the Russian-born Natalia Vodianova
to the Olympus of glossy magazines, catwalks and TV-advertisements, the
world community gasps in awe at another name, which is usual to a
Russian ear - Olga Kurilenko.
Somehow, Cinderella stories are very popular regarding Russian-speaking supermodels. If you read the biographies, those were Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Kate Moss who achieved success via laborious work and persistenсe. And girls from the former USSR are said to owe their success mainly to a miracle. Say, in relation to Vodianova, this is really partially true: in her childhood one of the most high-paid beauties in the world really had to go out in the street and sell cucumbers or underwear made by Chinese craftsmen in Shanghai cellars. But after all, similar legends are attempted to be compiled about Kurilenko as well. Allegedly, she was brought up in poverty by a single mother who couldn't afford any clothes; little Olya walked almost in rags, ate nearly garbage and should be grateful for her present full and rich life to a lucky coincidence which brought a Moscow model agency scout into metro where she saw the pretty Ukrainian girl.
It should be mentioned at once that all those tales are, mildly speaking, not too veritable. True, father left Olya and her mother when the girl was still very little. However, the mother of the future catwalk and movie star worked in the Ukrainian city of Berdyansk not just as somebody but as an instructor at a higher education institution. All of us come from the Soviet times and know perfectly well that educators in the USSR used to be in a much more comfortable financial state than nowadays. An only child, Olya was surrounded by the care and love of both her mother and granny and grew up a versatily developed girl. The spheres of her interest included dancing, music, painting, and taking part in school plays. As a reward for the girl's successful coverage of the school curriculum, mother used to take the daughter to fascinating trips to St.-Petersburg and Moscow during school vacations.
Partially the legend is true. 13-year-old Olga was really noticed by the fashion industry representatives in Moscow metro. The agency scout wrote down the girl's contact details and, as a matter of fact, that was it. Kurilenko returned to her native Berdyansk where she successfully continued her schooling and developing her maltifaceted talents. One can imagine how unexpected it was for Olga and her family to get a call from that very model agency scout that followed two months after the memorable trip to Moscow. After a trial trip, during which Olga spent two months in the capital of Russia taking an introductory course into the art of modelling, the girl returned home - she still needed to finish school. However, right after getting the high school diploma, Kurylenko left her home again. This time the trip turned out to be much more exciting and distant: the representatives of the French model agency Madison who had noticed the charming Ukrainian invited Olga for a training in Paris. There is hardly any need to mention how hard it was for the girl without any knowledge of French to be in a strange city and compete with lots of the same girls as she was - young, beautiful and ambitious. Olga confesses that her first week in Paris was the time of constant sobbing at night and everyday decisions to give everything up and go back home, to Mom. But Kurilenko had survived the first, hardest challenge in the haute couture world and was rewarded for it: during her career as a model she made an appearance on the pages of practically all the glossy magazines which were at least a bit famous. She also became the face of an advertising campaign of one of the world's leading cosmetic firms.
After divorce in early 2000 (the model had been married to a French photographer Cedric Van Mol for two years) Olga started to pay closer attention to cinema. As a result, her debut as a movie actress took place in a French film The Ring Finger (L'Annulaire) in 2005. To everyone's surprise Kurilenko disclosed a remarkable acting talent (obviously, the participation in school plays hadn't been in vain) - already for her debut role the newbie actress got a prize at Brooklyn International Film Festival. Further comes even more success: in Olga's track record there are already work with Elijah Wood in Paris, I Love You (Paris, je t'aime), roles in the drama The Serpent and a blockbuster Hitman. But Kurilenko's movie career should be definitely crowned by the part of Bond girl in the newest 007 film Quantum of Solace, which is due worldwide in the nearest future. Well, we shall only wait and see how our expatriate copes with the dream image of nearly every woman in the world.
Lingerie for women was just the plain underwear until the 20th century when it became the mean self-expression, as the subject of esthetic admiration. A piece of lingerie seen in between the women wear looked quite shocking to be shame and no one thought of designing luxury items based on lingerie, leaving alone works of art. Today every woman dreams of having a pair, or even more, of luxury and high quality lingerie to associate with sexuality, sensibility and attraction with male.
Today the knitwear is presented in so many styles and
it is so popular that no single autumn and spring collections can do without
hosiery. Knit
women's coats are offered in classic, sporty, romantic, vintage, casual and
ethnic styles. The demand for knit coats
grows in line with the more increasing range of color and texture of woolen
yarn as merino wool, angora, alpaca, Kashmir. Globally known brands launch knit
coats for women in their latest collections and most celebrities today appear
wearing knitwear for many occasions and that's hard to picture that some time
back it was something different.
First established in 1860, Chopard is one of the reputed watch and jewelry houses producing incredibly beautiful, fascinating jewelry items and watches of dream. The house also launched a number of celebrated fragrances as Casmir, Wish, Madness and Infiniment. Despite the long and solid history of the brand, it appeared only recently in the market of fragrances with the first fragrance Chopard launched only in 1992. Six years later, in 1996, the Chopard House presented its Mira-Bai, the fragrance which is still in favor among women keen on oriental scents. Mira-Bai shows no intentions to compete with such a fashion-setter in the sphere of oriental compositions as Guerlain Shalimar, though the fragrance by Chopard takes its niche among the classic perfumes in the market of oriental perfume.
Perfume launched y the Japanese brands or the one inspired by the Japanese culture is something so special in the international market of perfume. Unlike the other fragrances produced in bulk, such perfume with the traces of Japanese inspiration and life surely exert attention and this is reasonable: it is not only the perfume to market and ear money but the whole philosophy, covert but absolute. So, most perfume launched by the famous Japanese culture followers take their niches in the global market, like Kenzo and Issey Miyake. Issey Miyake launched the genially iconic fragrance of the 90s with such a simple and unpretentious name as Issey Miyake L'Eau D'Issey.
