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Raymond was inspired to start Victoria's Secret after feeling embarrassed purchasing lingerie for his wife in a department store. To open the store, he borrowed $40,000 from a bank and $40,000 from his family. 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, when ...
Daughter of militia captain (William) Gilbert Hyde-Lees (1865–1909), of the Manchester Regiment, [3] and Edith Ellen (1868–1942) known as "Nelly", daughter of barrister and manufacturer Montagu Woodmass, JP, [4] [5] Georgie was born in Fleet, Hampshire on 16 October 1892. Her father was regarded by her mother's family as "a most undesirable ...
Updated August 28, 2020 at 1:19 PM. A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports ...
After Rock, 58, made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, Smith famously said, “Keep my wife’s name out your f–king mouth.” As Pinkett Smith revealed earlier this week, however, she ...
Richard Smith Mother of: Hannah Holly Smith (1839–1917) Richard Cayuga Smith (1848–1921) John Raymond Tompkins Nov 20, 1814 – Apr 4, 1892 Susan Titus Father of: Helena Titus Tompkins (1839–1924) Susan Emerson (1840–1926) Ruth Tompkins (1844–1922) Sarah Gordon Tompkins (1845–1920)
Yeats photographed in 1903 by Alice Boughton. William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief ...
William Emmett Smith (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an American actor. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 79 years, he appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions in a wide variety of character roles, often villainous or brutal, accumulating over 980 total credits, with his best known role being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s television ...