Melania Trump – beautiful model and First Lady

Melania Trump is a Slovenian fashion model, watches and jewelry designer. She is wife of the 45th president of the United States of America Donald Trump.
Melania Knavs was born on April 26, 1970 in Sevnica, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Her father, Victor Knavs comes from the nearest town, Radeche and her mother Amalia from the village near Sevnica, on the outskirts of the Sevnica castle. Her father sold second-hand cars and her mother worked in a textile factory.
Melania entered Ljubljana University (architecture and design) but quit education after the first year. One day she met photographer Stane Jerko and her life radically changed. She moved to Milan. The girl began her modeling career at the age of 16 and performed in shows in Milan and Paris.
Working for Allure magazine, in 1999, she met Donald Trump. Later Melania became a professional model and began performing in New York.
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Sonia Rykiel – Queen of Knitwear

Sonia Rykiel was a French fashion designer who made a fashion revolution.
Sonia Rykiel was born on May 25, 1930 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Romania, Alfred Flis and Fanny Tesler. Her father worked as a watchmaker and mother was a housewife.
At the age of 17 Sonia became a designer of the textile store’s windows.
Her first husband was the owner of the shop. In 1962, Sonia made the first sweaters and maternity clothes for her husband’s boutique. Soon Rykiel became known as the Queen of Knitwear.
In 1986 she opened her first own boutique in Paris on the Left Bank of the Seine.
In addition to women’s clothing Sonia Rykiel fashion house produces various accessories and perfume. There is also a line of children’s clothes.
Le Poor Boy Sweater brought her popularity. It appeared on the cover of Elle and the designer was nicknamed Her Highness Jersey.
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Vivienne Westwood – Queen of Punk Fashion

Vivienne Westwood is a British fashion designer, creator of the punk style in fashion. She is the most extravagant woman in the UK.
Vivienne Isabel Swire was born on April 8, 1941 in Tintwistle, Derbyshire, England. A few years later her family moved to northern England. In the new town, she decided it was time to start planning her career. So she enrolled in the Harrow Art School. The family of the future designer was very poor, so the girl had to marry early. She wanted to escape from the nightmare of poverty and hunger. Because of marriage Vivienne forced to leave art school, but she received teacher education. A few years she worked as a teacher.
Her first husband was Derek Westwood. She gave birth to two children, Rose and ben. The couple divorced three years later.
Vivienne lived together with the manager of a rock band Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren. They have son Joseph. In 1983 Westwood’s alliance with McLaren came to an end.
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Heidi Klum – catwalk queen

Heidi Klum is a German supermodel, actress and TV presenter.
Heidi Klum was born on June 1, 1973 in Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Since the late 1990s, Heidi is one of the most famous models in the world. Her career began in 1992 when she won the grand prize in the Thomas Gottschalk’s Late-Night-Show. 18-year-old schoolgirl won the competition with 25 thousands of competitors, and as a prize she signed a contract with a modeling agency for 300 000 dollars. After high school, she refused to study fashion design in Düsseldorf and began her modeling career instead. Since 1993 Klum has been living in the United States.
World fame came to Klum in 1998, when her photo in a swimsuit was published on the cover of US magazine Sports Illustrated. In addition, Klum was one of the Victoria’s Secret’s leading models, one of the “angels”. She also was on the cover of popular Vogue and ELLE magazines. However, Klum had never belonged to a group of models who were on the podium during the big shows in Paris, Milan or New York.
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Carmen Dell’Orefice – great model

Carmen Dell’Orefice is a successful American model. She is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the podium model with the longest career, actress, author of the book Staying Beautiful: Beauty Secrets and Attitudes from My Forty Years As a Model, Doctor of Arts.
Carmen was born on June 3, 1931 in New York. She was born into a poor family of a violinist and a ballerina. Her father was an Italian and her mother was a Hungarian. Shortly after the birth of the daughter her parents divorced, and Carmen stayed with her mother. The mother wanted her daughter to continue her career, so the baby was involved in ballet. Carmen said she was always the ugly duckling. She was very high and skinny, and had braces on her teeth. Carmen dreamed of a ballerina’s career. Carmen attended classes of Russian choreographer Vyacheslav Svoboda who was familiar with her parents and agreed to teach her for free. However, rheumatism changed the fate of the girl.
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Helena Rubinstein – Queen of cosmetics

Helena Rubinstein was the famous entrepreneur, founder of the cosmetics line and chain stores in the US, France and the UK.
In 1950, she was one of the richest women in the world. She had no money, no education, and no one to help her. All she had were 12 jars of face cream and a lot of energy and ambition. She turned these into a cosmetics empire.
Helena (her real name was Chaja Rubinstein) was born on December 25, 1872 in Krakow. She was the oldest of eight girls. Helena’s father wanted her to be a doctor. But she hated medicine and left school. Then he wanted her to get married, but she refused. In 1902, she went to Australia, to live with a cousin and an uncle. Helena didn’t speak English, had no money and no plans. She had beautiful skin and told some of the women about the face cream.
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