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PIERRE CARDIN - THE FASHION MOGHUL - WALK WITH STYLE AND ELEGANCE Pierre Cardin (born July 7, 1922, San Biagio di Callalta, Italy —died December 29, 2020, Neuilly-sur-Seine , France) was a French designer of clothes for women and also a pioneer in the design of high fashion for men. Cardin’s father, a wealthy French wine merchant , wished him to study architecture, but from childhood he was interested in dressmaking. At 17, he went to Vichy , Fr, to become a tailor at a men’s shop. After World War II , he joined the Parisian fashion house of Paquin, where he helped design the costumes for Jean Cocteau ’s film Beauty and the Beast . He also worked at the couture house of Christian Dior . In 1950, he opened a shop of his own and gradually gained a solid reputation as a men’s suit maker. In 1959, he created one of the first ready-to-wear collections for women presented by a “name” designer, and in 1960 introduced the first designer ready-to-wear collection for men. In the ...

  GOLDEN  APPLE   -   THE  WORLD'S  FIRST  BEAUTY  CONTEST                                                                                    The Judgement of Paris   (1599) by   Hendrick van Balen the Elde r .   Gemäldegalerie, Berlin A " golden apple "   refers most commonly to th e mythological f ruit from the Garden of the Hesperides that sparked the Trojan War. Greek Mythology (Apple of Discord):   Thrown by Eris at a wedding, inscribed "For the Fairest," it caused a dispute between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite , leading ...

  JEAN-PAUL  SARTRE  -  THE  ADVOCATE  OF  WESTERN  PHILOSOPHY -  EXISTENTIALISM                                          Jean-Paul Sartre   (born June 21, 1905,   Paris , France—died April 15, 1980, Paris) was a French philosopher, novelist, and playwright, best known as the leading   exponent   of   existentialism   in the 20th century. In 1964, he declined the   Nobel Prize   for Literature, which had been awarded to him “for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age.” The other dignitary to refuse the Nobel Prize was Le Duc Tho (1973 Peace), who declined it, citing the lack of peace in Vietnam. Jean-Paul ...