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.
According to Forbes, Vladimir Potanin is 25-th in the world
rank of the richest people. In March 2008 his fortune was estimated at 19.3
billion dollars. Today he is the president and the chairman of the Board of directors
of CJSC «Holding Company «Interros», as well as a member of the Public Chamber.
Vladimir Potanin was born in 1961.
In 1988 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute and
started working in the All-Union trade associations «Soyuzpromeksport». Even
then he was notable for leadership and talent to achieve perfect result by managing
people around him. Just after 2 years, he opens up foreign trade association
«Interros». That was done with the support of Shilin who was the former Deputy
Minister of Foreign Economic Relations. In a short time, the company began to show
large return. Potanin did not stop and with the help of Chernomyrdin, Chubais
and Shokhin created the «ONEKSIMbank». Business specialized on the maintenance
of foreign trade operations, which required a license to work with special
exproters. Potanin received it without any problems.
There was a moment in the Potanin's biography when he was taking up the post of
First Vice-Premier of the Russian Government, being directly responsible for
finance. People believe that this appointment was the Kremlin's gratitude for
the work in elections headquarters of Boris Yeltsin under the leadership of
Chubais and sponsorship injections also. But evil languages assured that being
at such a high position Potanin was first and foremost interested in
«ONEKSIMbank» development. Sergei Dorenko claimed that up to 60% of the
country's budget was concentrated there. Whatever the case, Potanin worked as
the First Vice-Premier less than a year. After the resignation, he returned to
business.
In April 2005, Vladimir Potanin allowed himself to criticize the Kremlin.
Protecting small and medium businesses, he drew attention to the plenty of bureaucracies
and corruption. He also spoke negatively about the reform of natural
monopolies. Potanin said literally these words: «The state is too keen on it's
presence in the economy». However, in May of that year, after sentencing
Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, the oligarch declined to comment on the court decision.
In November 2005, Potanin became a member of the Public Chamber. At the first
meeting he was elected Chairman of the Commission on the development of
charity, mercy and volunteerism. The decision was absolutely logical, due to Potanin's
long patronage activities. Yet in 1995, he founded «Fund Unity of Orthodox
Peoples». In 2002 he spent a million dollars to buy a «Inkombank»'s «Black
Square» by Malevich. After that the masterpiece was handed over to the Russian
Museum Fund. The next year, on April 19, he was elected as a chairman of the
board of trustees of museum «State Hermitage». He helped in creating the
Orthodox University, for which, as well as for other Merit, awarded by the
Russian Orthodox Church Order of St. Vladimir II and III degree and Venerable
Order of St. Sergius Radonezh III degree. And in January 2007, Potanin was
awarded the French Order of «Arts and elegant literature» for a significant
contribution to the art exhibition «When Russia Spoke French», held at the
Cathedral of Invalids four years earlier.
Potanin also received media's attention. In 2006 after the restaurateur Arkady
Novikov he became a moderator and the main hero of the reality-show «Candidate»
on TNT channel.The winner of the project
received a guaranteed position of top managers in one of the Potanin's companies,
with a salary of three million rubles a year. It is difficult to say what forced
the businessman to participate. There were no problems with the staff indeed. Potanin
explained that he wanted to show how difficult is the business. As well, it is
a truism; the magnitude of his personality was presented really well, as
Potanin became the main «star» in the project.
Despite the fact that Vladimir Potanin is rather authoritarian leader, he tries
to maintain smooth relations with subordinates. It is believed, that the main
weakness is his unbridled desire for luxury. The chic atmosphere of his cabinet
and apartments surprises even the colleagues. Potanin is fluent in French and
English. The list of his hobbies includes soccer, tennis, downhill skiing and
chess.
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 1980, the brand by Carolina Herrera is one of the well-known fashion brands; collections by Carolina Herrera make a conquest for the public love and demand due to elegance and delicacy of the fashion wear models. The collections were successful, though Carolina Herrera opened its perfume line first in 1988 presenting Carolina Herrera for Women. Carolina Herrera 212 is known to be the bestseller first launched in 1997, and today this fragrance takes its niche among the most recognized perfumes of the world.
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.
