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Source (Google.com.pk)This explosive Real Madrid striker and captain of the Portuguese national team was once the most expensive player in football history when he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer deal worth £80 million (€94m, US$132m). He has to his credit almost every award and recognition that could matter to any man. His dashing looks and charisma adds to his brand value and have made him a favorite not only among the media but also advertisers. He is the marketing face of many mega-brands such as Nike, Armani and Coke and makes millions through his partnership with these brands. A contract with Real Madrid, in which he was to be paid £11 million per year over the following six years, made him the highest-paid football player in the world at the time.
Cristiano Ronaldo salary is about US $16 million per year. Manchester United accepted an unconditional offer of £80 million from Real Madrid for Ronaldo after it was revealed that he had expressed his desire to leave the club. It seems that everyone is ready to part with a share of their fortune to have a share of Ronaldo’s life, but he is clearly not satisfied, not yet. Now the Real Madrid star is using social media to expand his brand, which is quite evident when someone looks at his Facebook profile which has garnered 25 million fans, more than twice as many as any other athlete. Not only has he scored on the field, but also off it. His dating repertoire includes likes of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian and he loves to take them for a ride in his collection of supercars. He also has a son with his latest girlfriend and has named him after himself, Cristiano.
John Galliano was born to a Spanish mother and Gibraltarian father, and Spanish heritage remains an integral part of Galliano’s life and work.
He spent the first six years of his life submerged in a sensuous wonderland: Mediterranean colour and swirling, woven textile surrounded him at every turn. Such an environment kindled a love of textiles and design in Galliano from an early age, and Latin influences are prevalent in his later work.
In 1966, Galliano and his family moved to London. A massive culture shock awaited Galliano, as he was removed from his more vibrant former surroundings. His family prided itself immensely on appearance and each time he left the house as a child, Galliano was immaculately turned out. These standards of dressing, especially when he compared himself with his more slovenly English schoolmates, made him stand out and taught him important standards of dress, which he would require later in life.
However, he was not considered an outstanding student. It was not until Galliano reached design school and was around people more like himself that he began to flourish.
Once Galliano had graduated from City and East London College, he enrolled at Central Saint Martins, where he made a remarkable impact. His graduation collection, titled ‘Les Incroyables’, made brilliant by his romantic flair and diligence, received huge approval. Indeed, his whole line was hastily snapped up and put into the window of Browns boutique. Galliano left Central Saint Martins in 1983 with a first class degree and a healthy stockpile of critical acclaim.
In 1984, Galliano unleashed his own label. More critical approval followed. His daring reinvention of romantic themes and delicate, superbly tailored garments were his trademarks.
In 1987, he received the ‘British Designer of the Year’ award. However, critical success was not matched by major financial success. He lost backers and did not have enough money to show for several seasons. In frustration, he quit London for Paris in the early 1990s. This was not an immediate solution. Several times Galliano was almost forced to declare bankruptcy. This was made all the more bitter by the fact that, while he struggled for money, his critical praise continued unabated.
Fortunately, the admiration of the fashion community allowed him to continue. Fashion editors and critics were always busy trying to get work for Galliano, and models, like Kate Moss, worked for him out of friendship rather than money.
In 1995, Galliano finally got the break he so richly deserved: he became the first Englishman to head a French couture house, when he was put in charge of Givenchy. Immersing himself in the role, he went on to present his first couture show at the helm of the company at the beginning of 1996, impressing those who attended the event at the Stade Francais. The collection was well received, with adulation and praise for his creative genius coming from critics and the fashion media.
Impressed by this success and others, luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, which owned Givenchy, had Galliano transferred to Christian Dior less than two year later, where he replaced Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre.
He staged his first couture show for the luxury brand in January 1997, the same time the label was celebrating its 50th anniversary. The same year also saw Galliano gain recognition after being declared British Designer of the Year, although he had to share the award with Alexander McQueen, his successor at Givenchy. This was the fourth time he had won the accolade, having triumphed in 1987, 1994 and 1995.
His knack for taking themes and styles, often Latin or romantic, from the past, and somehow making them contemporary and edgy, was astonishing. Perhaps just as remarkable was the perseverance and conviction of the man. He managed to keep his talent undiluted through difficult times and emerged with glory and success.
In 1996, Galliano moved to Christian Dior, unveiling his first couture collection for them on January 20th 1997 to coincide with the fashion house's 50th anniversary.
Galliano won the British Designer of the Year award again in 1994 and 1995. In addition he shared the award in 1997 with the late Alexander McQueen.
In 2001, the designer was awarded a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours list.
However, Galliano hit the headlines for all of the wrong reasons in 2011 when a video emerged of him allegedly making anti-sematic remarks to Italian tourists in a Paris bar.
Actress Natalie Portman, who is the face of the Miss Dior Cherie fragrance and is of Jewish ancestry, said she was disgusted by the comments.
After suspending the designer in February 2011, Dior announced in March 2011 that it has begun proceedings to permanently dismiss Galliano. Dior chief executive Sidney Toledano said he "firmly" condemned the remarks made by the fashion designer.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was one of the most significant American authors of the Twentieth century . His novels and short fictions have left an indelible mark on the literary production of the United States and the world. Although most often remembered for his economical and understated fiction, he was also a noted journalist. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Novel Prize in Literature. Hemingway is also known for his heroic, adventurous and often stereotypically “manly” public persona. The myth he cultivated of himself as a man of action aided the important Modernist reading of many of his works.
Throughout the twenties lasting until the fifties, Hemingway produced a plethora of writing. Most of this writing was in his familiar stringent style. The economical use of words coupled with his “believable” characterizations of the modern condition were hallmarks of his style.
On July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Oak Park, just south of Chicago, was the city in which Hemingway grew up. After graduating high school, he began writing for The Kansas City Star. At the start of the First Word War, Hemingway drove an ambulance on the Italian front. Within a year of his service, Hemingway was severely injured. He returned to the states because of his wounds. This period would provide the material for much of his celebrated work A Farewell to Arms.
Ernest Hemingway married Hadley Richardson in 1922. The young coupled relocated to Paris where Hemingway had found work as a foreign correspondent. Before two years of living in Paris, Hemingway wrote over eighty articles for the Toronto Star. Hemingway wrote about the Greco-Turkish War and travel pieces (covering subjects including fishing and bull fighting.) In 1922, Hadley lost a piece of luggage containing Hemingway’s manuscripts. The author was distraught over this event. The couple crossed the Atlantic to move to Toronto. In 1923, Hemingway’s first child, John Hadley Nicanor, was born. Three Stories and Ten Poems was published. Hemingway tired of Toronto and returned his family to Paris. He became an active member of the so-called Lost Generation, a community of expatriates. This community included many writers who were beginning to explore the possibility of Modernist writing. Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford edited a review which published the work of writers like Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and John Dos Passos. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald formed a close friendship. Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby inspired Hemingway to write larger texts. Hemingway’s first novel The Sun Also Rises was published four years after his first arrival in Paris.
Hemingway spent much time at Gertrude Stein's salon. In this social context, Hemingway met influential painters including Juan Gris, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso. Hemingway and Stein were cordial. Eventually their strong personalities would clash and a decades-long rift would form between them. Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound met in 1922. The two men toured Italy throughout 1923. In 1924, the writers moved on to the same street. Pound nurtured the Hemingway. Pound also introduced the younger writer to James Joyce. Joyce and Hemingway would go on bouts of drinking. In 1927, Hemingway sought a divorce from Richardson.
The relationship between Hemingway and Hadley began to break down as Hemingway wrote his first novel. Hadley also discovered that Hemingway was having an affair with the American Pauline Pfeiffer.. As Part of the divorce settlement, Hadley was to receive the revenue from The Sun Also Rises.. After the first divorce, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. Hemingway would end their marriage on returning from the Spanish Civil War.
In June 1928, Hemingway and his second wife had a son in Kansas City. After Pauline gave birth, Hemingway and his family traveled to Wyoming, Massachusetts and New York. In the fall, Hemingway discovered that his father had committed suicide. He began to have premonitions that he would end his life by his own hand. Throughout the 1930s, Hemingway would spend his winters in Key West, Florida. This region would become associated with Hemingway. In the summer, Hemingway would return to Wyoming. Hemingway took advantage of the hunting and fishing in these areas.
This love would encourage Hemingway’s sense of adventure. In 1933, Hemingway traveled to East Africa for a safari. This trip inspired much of Hemingway’s work including Green Hills of Africa, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber". Hemingway was infected with amoebic dysentery, resulting in a prolapsed intestine. He would take an emergency flight to Nairobi for medical treatment.
In 1936, Hemingway met a journalist in Martha Gellhorn in Key West, Florida. The following year, Hemingway traveled to Spain to work as a war correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Hemingway was brought into a film project as The Spanish Earth when John Dos Passos. Dos Passos abandoned the film after José Robles was executed. Hemingway accused Dos Passos of being a coward; however, Dos Passos was disgusted by the brutality of the leftist republicans.
Hemingway sailed to Cuba in early 1939. While in Cuba, Hemingway lived in a hotel in Havana. This signaled the increased effort painfully separate from his second wife. Martha Gelhorn was to join Hemingway in Cuba. In 1940, Hemingway married Martha Gelhorn. This marriage ended when Hemingway met Mary Walsh in Wyoming in the fall of 1940. However, he would change his summer home to Ketchum, Idaho.
During this time, Gelhorn gave Hemingway the inspiration to pen his most celebrated novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for this work. In 1941, Martha Gellhorn accepted an assignment for Colliers magazine that required her to travel to China. Hemingway took the opportunity to travel China.
For the second half of 1944, Hemingway traveled to the European front of the Second World War. He was at the D-Day landing; however, he was protected as “precious cargo.” However, some doubt the validity of the assertions that he went ashore during the Allied invasion. During the conflict, Hemingway broke the Geneva Convention by leading an armed group of military resistors. As a journalist, he was expressly forbidden to engage in military action. However, he escaped punishment by claiming that he had only given advice. For his actions in the war, Hemingway was given a Bronze Star for bravery.
On returning to Paris, he was able to heal the rift with Gertrude Stein. In London, Hemingway met Mary Welsh, a Time magazine correspondent. On their third meeting, Hemmingway offered a marriage proposal. The wedding occurred in 1946. During a return trip to Europe, Hemingway became infatuated with the teenaged Adriana Ivancich. This romance would inspire Hemingway’s book Across the River and Into the Trees. When the book was released in 1950, it was received very poorly. However in 1952, Hemingway would win the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. Two years later Hemingway would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His mental and physical health worsened during this period. Things were made worse because of Hemingway’s alcoholism. From 1955 to 1956, Hemingway was confined to his bed. His doctors told him to stop drinking, but he did not comply. In 1959, Hemingway was in Cuba when the communist party decided to nationalize the property belonging to Americans. In 1960, Hemingway visited Spain before returning to Idaho. His mental health deteriorated. He attempted electoroshock therapy. His mental health was at its lowest. In 1961, Ernest Hemingway committed suicide.
Hemingway’s legacy is at times seen as being sexist and homophobic. His pursuit of a masculine ideal has been criticized for lacking the complexity of human endeavor. Yet, undoubtedly Hemingway’s writing and life have had a profound impact on literature.
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