• Burberry 13.06.2010 No Comments

    The list honors hundreds of people who have made a difference to the lives of people in their communities. They represent 76 percent of recipients.

    Entrepreneurs honored on the list include Tamara Mellon, the brains behind the Jimmy Choo brand of shoes beloved of fashionistas around the world. She gets an OBE.

    Also in the sports category, jockey Tony McCoy gets an OBE while motor racing's David Coulthard receives an MBE.

    (Editing by Steve Addison)

    A total of 975 people are on the annual list, which marks Queen Elizabeth's official birthday. Women represent 47 percent of the total, while 7.3 percent are people from ethnic minorities, making the list one of the most diverse to date.

    Williams, who became the first British woman in 58 years to win a Winter Olympic individual gold medal when she triumphed in the skeleton race at the Vancouver Games, receives an MBE.

    Listed in the fields of science and technology, but also with an impact on the world of sport, are MBEs for Frank Duckworth and Anthony Lewis.

    There are five classes of honors in the Order of the British Empire. The most common, in decreasing order of seniority, are CBE, OBE (Officer) and MBE (Member).

    Robin Millar, a record producer with 150 gold and platinum discs to his name including 44 number one hits, is honored with a CBE. Millar, who has been blind since 1985 because of illness, has worked with the likes of Sting and Peter Gabriel.

    Anthony Warburton is rewarded with an MBE for his 40 years of work for the conservation of owls and their habitats.

    Zeta-Jones,The North Face, who won an Oscar in 2003 for her role in the musical "Chicago," can now add a CBE or Commander of the British Empire to her tally of awards. She is being honored for services to the film industry as well as charity work in Wales.

    They are honored for services to statistics and mathematics respectively, but also for formulating the Duckworth-Lewis Method to determine the result of limited-over cricket matches affected by bad weather.

    Bryn and Emma Parry get OBEs as co-founders of the Help for Heroes charity, described as an initiative that caught the mood of the nation and helped to reconnect it with the armed forces.

    There is also an MBE for Elma Anne Rendall, customer service officer at Royal Bank of Scotland on Orkney,Louis Vuitton, who provides flying banking services to remote Scottish islands.

    HIGH HEELS AND HEROES

    Harry Samuel receives an MBE for 24 years of service as a voluntary worker providing advice and support to former miners and their families on coping with chronic bronchitis, emphysema and vibration white finger claims.

    LONDON (Reuters) – A flying banker and an owl-lover join celebrities including film star Catherine Zeta-Jones and Olympic gold medalist Amy Williams on the Queen's Birthday Honors list, the Cabinet Office said on Saturday.

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  • Burberry 23.09.2009 No Comments

    Designed to focus on the elements of style and fashion source, let us take a closer in 2009 the three elements of costume design and overall concept of the United Burberry States, in the feeling of upgrading their design inspiration!

    Clothing style can be divided into outer and inner shape modeling, its external shape mainly refers to the silhouette outline of clothing, which means the clothing style house styles, including the structure lines, provincial, collar type, bag type and so on.

    Garment appearance is the design of the main body in shape design to meet the overall appearance of the style characteristics, internal and external modeling should complement each other. To avoid the blind pursuit of style, aside shape carved in the shape, because it will play an overwhelming and negative effects of fragmentation.

    1. Clothing design clothing design and styled as a visual art, Burberry contour shape can give the people a deep impression in the overall design in the clothing Design part of the first position. Outer garments can be summarized into a silhouette outline of A, H, X, Y four basic type. In the basic model based on the slight changes in a variety of modifications can also produce changes in shape, so as to be able to change the basis of A-type tents out of line, horn lines, shapes, pairs of H, Y, X-type can also be modified to produce more outline of taste-based. Had to be in the plane of the fabric to show three-dimensional effect, we must take away the excess, in addition to the plasticity of the use of fabric shape them hot and Burberry humid, in general, mainly through the provincial and vicious set to achieve this purpose. Province is the suture fixed, according to a different location set is divided into provinces chest, waist province, shoulder province, back province, provinces, etc. breech. One chest Women’s clothing in the province is the most critical and important factor. Province, according to the changes in breast style has different forms, mainly dumping and cut the folded prototype can be used in two ways transfer chest province. For example, start with the use of cut folding income provinces where provincial cut towards chest to chest dart point dot, in the province, while folding armpit, provincial position on the transfer of cutting line, completing the transfer Burberry of chest Province .

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