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Peter Simon (born August 1949) [1] is a British businessman who is the founder and owner of fashion retailer Monsoon Accessorize. According to The Sunday Times Rich List , Simon has a net worth of £480 million.
[4] [5] [6] The first Accessorize shop opened in 1984, next door to Monsoon in Covent Garden. [6] In 1994, a registered charity, the Monsoon Accessorize Trust, was set up to help under-privileged women and children in Asia. [7] [8] [9] The company was listed on the Stock Exchange in 1998. In 2007, Simon paid £185 million to take it private ...
Pupul Jayakar (née Mehta; 11 September 1915 – 29 March 1997) was an Indian cultural activist and writer, best known for her work on the revival of traditional and village arts, handlooms, and handicrafts in post-independence India.
Thrown, combed tea bowl by Shōji Hamada. The concept of mingei (民芸), variously translated into English as "folk craft", "folk art" or "popular art", was developed from the mid-1920s in Japan by a philosopher and aesthete, Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), together with a group of craftsmen, including the potters Hamada Shōji (1894–1978) and Kawai Kanjirō (1890–1966).
Indus Valley Civilisation Alternative names Harappan civilisation ancient Indus Indus civilisation Geographical range Basins of the Indus river, Pakistan and the seasonal Ghaggar-Hakra river, eastern Pakistan and northwestern India Period Bronze Age South Asia Dates c. 3300 – c. 1300 BCE Type site Harappa Major sites Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Dholavira, and Rakhigarhi Preceded by Mehrgarh ...
By the first half of the 16th century, the clothing of the Low Countries, German states, and Scandinavia had developed in a different direction than that of England, France, and Italy, although all absorbed the sobering and formal influence of Spanish dress after the mid-1520s. [71] Elaborate slashing was popular, especially in Germany.
The world's first sewing machine was patented in 1790 by Thomas Saint. [14] By the early 1840s, other early sewing machines began to appear. Barthélemy Thimonnier introduced a simple sewing machine in 1841 to produce military uniforms for France's army; shortly afterward, a mob of tailors broke into Thimonnier's shop and threw the machines out ...
Exterior of the KPM building in 2009. The Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin (German: Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, abbreviated as KPM), also known as the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin and whose products are generally called Berlin porcelain, was founded in 1763 by King Frederick II of Prussia (known as Frederick the Great).