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Raymond was inspired to start Victoria's Secret after feeling embarrassed purchasing lingerie for his wife in a department store. [8] [9] To open the store, he borrowed $40,000 from a bank and $40,000 from his family. [10] Roy and Gaye Raymond worked together to design and launch the first store with a Victorian-inspired style.
Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer. Founded in 1977 by Roy and Gaye Raymond, [ 6 ][ 7 ] the company's five lingerie stores were sold to Les Wexner in 1982. [ 8 ] Wexner rapidly expanded into American shopping malls, growing the company into 350 stores nationally with sales of $1 billion by the early 1990s ...
The V.I.P.s (also known as Hotel International) is a 1963 British comedy-drama film in Metrocolor and Panavision.It was directed by Anthony Asquith, produced by Anatole de Grunwald, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [4]
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The film is based on a play titled The Doormat. [2] It was directed by James Flood and the screenwriter was Mary O'Hara.The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures.It was reported by The Film Daily on July 16, 1926, that Jack L. Warner of Warner Bros. Pictures was withdrawing the film from the releasing schedule, but it was later screened in September 1926 in New York City. [3]
Jean-Marc Leblanc is a bureaucrat and a once passionate supporter of the Quebec sovereignty movement.His wife, Sylvie, and daughters are no longer interested in him. At work, he is repeatedly bothered by his superior Carole who berates him for issues such as taking longer breaks than allowed, and for calling black Canadian co-worker William a "Negro", though Jean-Marc insists he simply said ...
Wexner was born in Dayton, Ohio, [7] on September 8, 1937, to parents Bella née Cabakoff (1908–2001) and Harry Louis Wexner (1899–1975). [8] Both his parents were of Russian-Jewish origin. [4] His father was born in Russia and his mother was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. [4] She moved to Columbus, Ohio as a toddler. [8]
Robert Lee Rayford[1] (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), [2] sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. This is based on evidence published in 1988 in which the authors claimed that medical evidence ...