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Lacoste S.A. is a French luxury sports fashion company, founded in 1933 by tennis player René Lacoste, and entrepreneur André Gillier. It sells clothing , footwear , sportswear , eyewear , leather goods , perfume , towels and watches .
Jean René Lacoste (2 July 1904 – 12 October 1996) was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" because of how he dealt with his opponents; [2] he is also known worldwide as the creator of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929, and eventually founded the brand and its logo in 1933.
Biography. Born in Paris on 22 June 1931, Bernard Lacoste was the son of René Lacoste, the founder of the fashion company Lacoste. [1] He attended high school in France and earned the Bachelor of Science at Princeton University in the USA. From February 1954 until February 1956 he was a Lieutenant in the French Air Force.
e. David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American politician, white supremacist, conspiracy theorist, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [3] From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the Republican Party. His politics and writings are largely devoted to promoting conspiracy ...
In 1953, David Crystal, the owner of Izod and Haymaker, bought 50% of the rights to market Lacoste in America. The "Izod" and "Haymaker" brands were already established there. "Lacoste" was added to enhance the brands' prestige and introduce the name to American markets. The resulting union of the two companies was the piqué polo/tennis shirt ...
Levi Strauss & Co. (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / LEE-vy STROWSS) is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ z / LEE-vyze) brand of denim jeans.It was founded in May 1853 [9] when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, to open a West Coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business.
Yves Lacoste (born 7 September 1929), is a French geographer, known for his political commitment and contributions to geopolitics. Born in Rabat, Morocco, [1] the son of a geologist, Jean Lacoste, and a librarian, he spent his childhood in the city before continuing his secondary education at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux (Seine) and his higher education at the Sorbonne.
The club was founded by Lacoste's grandfather René Thion de la Chaume in 1928, as a celebration of the British Ladies Amateur triumph a year earlier by Lacoste's mother. French golfer Jean Garaïalde and his father Raymond were her golf teachers when she learned the game at young age.