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unusual facts about Vanity



Charlotte Tilbury

Charlotte now works with top photographers including Mario Testino and Mert and Marcus; supermodels such as Kate Moss and Gisele Bündchen; and magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, LOVE and V Magazine.

Danny Is Dead

Danny Is Dead, the first EP and fourth studio album from American rapper/producer Danny!, is a half-hour long EP that was released July 17, 2007 (see 2007 in music) on Danny!'s 1911 Music/Badenov Records vanity label.

Danny! discography

Instead, selected tracks from Danny!'s discography—all previously released on his vanity Badenov Records/1911 Music imprint—have been made available as a free download on Def Jux's revamped website, which boasts an extensive digital download section.

David Drebin

He has shot ad campaigns internationally for companies such as American Express and Davidoff and has contributed to magazines ranging from Vanity Fair, Travel + Leisure, and GQ to Elle and Rolling Stone.

Demi's Birthday Suit

Departing Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown felt "The only thing to do for the anniversary cover was to reprise it."

Donald Glaude

Donald Glaude has put out multiple records of his own songs and vanity labels Durty Records and Eden Records targeted to professional DJs while making digital releases on Beatport.

Gaspard Gourgaud

His extreme sensitiveness and vanity soon brought him into collision with Napoleon's other companions, Las Cases and Montholon, in their exile at Longwood.

Georg Kreisel

According to Conradi, "For half a century she nonetheless records variously Kreisel's brilliance, wit and sheer 'dotty' solipsistic strangeness, his amoralism, cruelty, ambiguous vanity and obscenity." Murdoch dedicated her 1971 novel An Accidental Man to Kreisel and he became a (partial) model for several characters in other novels, including Marcus Vallar in The Message to the Planet and Guy Openshaw in Nuns and Soldiers.

Grant H. Crabtree

Inspired by Edward Steichen’s Vanity Fair portraits, and encouraged by positive reaction to his work, Crabtree began his long career in photography and film.

Hans Gissinger

Gissinger has also photographed for worldwide brands such as Jaguar, Condé Nast, Donna Karan, Nike, Ebel, Cartier, Ruinart Champagne, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Neiman Marcus, and Lincoln Mercury.

Heydon, Norfolk

Films partly shot in the village include The Go Between (1970), Riders (1993), Hitler's Britain (2002), Vanity Fair, The Woman in White, The Moonstone, The Peppermint Pig, and A Cock and Bull Story (2005).

Hugh Hardy

In 2010, Hardy was one of 52 leading architects invited to participate in Vanity Fair’s 2010 World Architecture Survey.

Jennifer Loomis

There she witnessed a photo shoot of the pregnant Demi Moore to be featured in Vanity Fair.

Jim Blashfield

Recent films include Bunnyheads, SuctionMaster, Vanity and The Tasseled Loafers, an irreverent interpretation of Hector Berlioz' Dream of a Witch's Sabbath with music by the Czech Philharmonic.

John Strugnell

Ron Rosenbaum, "The Riddle of the Scrolls", Vanity Fair, reprinted in The Secret Parts of Fortune

Kamakura period

The Hōjōki describes the turmoil of the period in terms of the Buddhist concepts of impermanence and the vanity of human projects.

Maureen Orth

Orth profiled France's First Lady Carla Bruni and detailed the inside story of "Inside Colombia's Hostage War" in the November 2008 Vanity Fair.

Miranda Grosvenor

According to Vanity Fair, at least two of her telephone paramours, Quincy Jones and Richard Perry, proposed marriage.

Never Too Young to Die

Never Too Young To Die is a 1986 B movie, starring John Stamos as Lance Stargrove, a young man who, with the help of secret-agent Danja Deering (Vanity a.k.a. Denise Matthews) must avenge the death of his secret-agent father (George Lazenby) at the hands of the evil hermaphrodite Velvet Von Ragner (Gene Simmons).

Ptolemy of Mauretania

Further literary evidence, suggesting the deification of Juba II even Ptolemy, is from the brief euhemerist exercise entitled On the Vanity of Idols by the Christian Saint of the 3rd century, Cyprian.

Robert Risko

At 25 he was chosen by renowned art director Bea Feitler along with Rolling Stone photographer Annie Leibovitz and artist Keith Haring to define the look of the new Vanity Fair when the magazine was relaunched in 1983.

His style embodies the spirit of the 1930s Vanity Fair caricaturists Miguel Covarrubias and Paolo Garretto the latter of which he corresponded with until his death in 1989.

Sean M. Berkowitz

Berkowitz married Bethany McLean, a Vanity Fair magazine editor and one of the authors of the book Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, in May 2008.

Stourbridge fair

John Bunyan used the event as the inspiration for the Vanity Fair in Pilgrim's Progress, which in turn was used by William Makepeace Thackeray for his most celebrated novel.

Susan L. Solomon

She is married to Paul Goldberger, the Pulitzer Prize winning writer on architecture, design and planning, who is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair.

The Vanity Label

The newly formed Vanity Label was created to launch their then upcoming album, and Vanity Label’s first album release, Dog Problems.

The Vanity Project

The Vanity Projects, as he dubbed them, performed two shows in the Firebird Lounge of the Carnival Legend.

Tommy Bowles

Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841–1922), founder of the magazines The Lady and the English Vanity Fair

Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1844

He was nauseated by all of it, by the glitter of gold, by the vanity of pleasure, by the cowardliness of men-everything, in fact, was for sale, everything.

Vanity domain

Vanity domains may be compared with vanity car registration plates, which similarly identify their owner as an individual and not just someone relying on another organisation's services.

Vanity press

A slightly more sophisticated model of a vanity press is described by Umberto Eco in Foucault's Pendulum.

VF Corporation

An outlet mall located in Vanity Fair's old manufacturing mills in Wyomissing, just outside Reading, Pennsylvania.

Victimless Leather

The French actress Brigitte Bardot strongly opposed hunting of animals for vanity and the commercial purpose of the skin.

Walter Chin

One of his best known images, of a nude Gisele Bündchen on horseback, was published in Vanity Fair in 1999, and featured in a 2008 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London dedicated to Vanity Fair portraits.


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