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The winner of the American "Project Runway", the designer from Novopolotsk, will return to work at home

Author: Newsmaker added 12-01-2013, 10:50
The winner of the American "Project Runway", the designer from Novopolotsk, will return to work at homeDmitry Sholokhov, a 33-year-old Belarusian, who won the design competition in the United States, will present at Belarusian Fashion Week a new collection, designed in cooperation with the brand O. Jen.

One of the best young designers in New York, worked with Calvin Klein, J. Mandel, Dominico Vacca, Ann Clein, and others, began to develop a collection with the popular Belarusian manufacturer of women's clothing O. Jen.

Ruslan Kogan

Author: Lida added 9-12-2012, 05:38
Ruslan KoganRuslan Kogan was born on November 1982 in Babruisk, Mogilev region, Belarus. He is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Kogan Technologies as well as one of the founders of Milan Direct, an Australian and UK furniture retailer. He was Australia's richest person under the age of 30 from 2011 to his 30th birthday in November 2012. He has a personal wealth valued at $145 million. Moreover, Kogan was the first Australian to register as a passenger on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic sub-orbital spaceflight, having paid a deposit on the US$200,000 ticket.

Steven Ballmer

Author: Lida added 18-11-2012, 14:31
Steven BallmerSteven Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956. He is an American businessman who has been working as Microsoft CEO since January 2000. In 2012 he is number 19 on the Forbes 400 with personal wealth of $15.7 billion. He is also the first in the list of the richest people who are not business owners or their relatives.
Ballmer was the first billionaire in the world, who took his status thanks to options which he received from Microsoft.

Ballmer is the son of Frederic Henry Ballmer and Beatrice Dworkin, whose grandfather, Shloma Dworkin, lived in Pinsk, Belarus.

David Sarnoff

Author: Lida added 27-10-2012, 06:19
David Sarnoff
David Sarnoff was a Belarusian-born American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television. He is extremely unusual, ahead of his time shrewd businessman. Before leaving for New York he was called David Sarnow and lived in the Belarusian village Uzlyany.

David Sarnoff was born in a Jewish family on February 27, 1891 in Belarus, to Abraham and Leah Sarnoff. He emigrated to the United States and raised funds to bring the family. Sarnoff spent much of his early childhood in a cheder studying and memorizing the Torah. He immigrated with his mother and three brothers and one sister to New York City in 1900, where he helped support his family by selling newspapers before and after his classes at the Educational Alliance.

Dmitry Sholokhov, Designer from Belarus, Celebrates His ‘Project Runway’ Season 10 Victory

Author: Lida added 20-10-2012, 16:33
Dmitry Sholokhov, Designer from Belarus, Celebrates His ‘Project Runway’ Season 10 Victory
Dmitry Sholokhov won the 10th season of the popular American TV show "Project Runway," in which fashion designers compete.

As part of the winner’s prize package, this season’s victorious designer received $100,000 from L’Oréal Paris to start his own line, a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine, a 2013 Lexus GS 350, a $50,000 technology suite by HP and Intel to create his own vision and run his business and the opportunity to design and sell an exclusive collection at Lord & Taylor.

Ralph Lauren

Author: Lida added 30-09-2012, 16:13
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz, October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive, best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.

Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifschitz in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish immigrants, from Belarus: Fraydl Kotlar (from Grodno) and Frank Lifschitz (from Pinsk).

Sofia Grojsman

Author: Lida added 5-09-2012, 22:35
Sofia Grojsman
Sofia Grojsman is one of the best perfumers in the world. She established more than 20 formulas of the 30 most popular names of perfumes, colognes, eau de toilette and laundry detergent. There are the following among them: Paris and Yvresse by Yves Saint Laurent, Eternity for Women by Calvin Klein, symbolizing femininity Tresor by Lancome, as well as many famous Estee Lauder perfume. Sofia also created odor emollient wash Downy, which housewives liked a lot. But the most interesting thing is that Sophia came from Belarus and now she has made the spirits which devotes her homeland.

Louis Burt Mayer

Author: Lida added 3-09-2012, 23:52

Louis Burt Mayer
Louis Burt Mayer (July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) born Lazar Meir was a Canadian American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in its golden years. Known always as Louis B. Mayer and often simply as "L.B.", he believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths so that MGM had "more stars than there are in the heavens".

He was born possibly on July 12, 1884, in a Jewish family in Minsk, Russian Empire.