The fashion designer John Galliano was born in which British overseas territory?
"I get from having fewer toxins in my body is extraordinary."" John Galliano John Charles Galliano (born November 28, 1960) is a Gibraltar-born British fashion designer who was the head designer of French fashion companies Givenchy (July 1995 to October 1996), Christian Dior (October 1996 to March 2011), and his own label John Galliano (1988 to 2011). At present, Galliano is the creative director of Paris-based fashion house Maison Margiela. Galliano has been named British Designer of the Year four times. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the fifth most influential person in British culture. He"
"a Spanish mother, Anita, and has two sisters. Galliano's father was a plumber. His family moved to England in pursuit of work when Galliano was six, and settled in Streatham, South London, before moving to Dulwich and later to Brockley. He was raised in a strict Roman Catholic family. Galliano, who was shy and diffident, often spoke of his struggle to fit in. Recalling his early days, he once admitted: ""I don't think people here understood where I was coming from."" His mother, a flamenco teacher, would dress him in his ""smartest"" outfit even for a trip to the local"
"a citrus tree orchard. He came from the Kingdom of Two Sicilies in the vicinity of Naples, Italy, where he was in the service of the King of Spain. A popular local legend is that his wife, Julia, had no last name and was related closely to the King of Spain. Antoine Galliano or Galiano (Spanish spelling) had fallen in love with a lady of noble birth – probably a princess, since he was in the King's Guard. He and his wife were sent to Louisiana (New Spain) and settled in the area known now as Galliano. His descendants still"
"Simon Procter Simon Procter (born 8 November 1968 in Lancashire, England) is an expatriate British artist and photographer who has collaborated with Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood, and whose work includes Galliano Royal. His work has appeared in ""V"" Magazine, ""Vogue"", ""Harper's Bazaar"", ""The New York Times""' ""T Magazine"", ""The Independent"", ""The Daily Telegraph"" magazine, ""Bullett"", ""Stiletto"" and ""Sport and Style"". His artwork is held in collections and museums worldwide, and has been shown at Paris's Grand Palais, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Art Basel Miami and the Moscow Museum of Art. Since 2005, he has worked"
"Ono, although Sean was born in New York City. English musician Dhani Harrison is the son of George Harrison of The Beatles and Mexican-American Olivia Trinidad Arias (who also now lives in the UK). In 2001, 306 Puerto Rican born people alone were residing in the United Kingdom (the 19th most common birthplace amongst Latin American states). Notable British residents of Puerto Rican origin or descent include actress Micaela Nevárez and former Miss World, Wilnelia Merced. Sir Richard Grenville captured the Roanoke Island Native American Raleigh (named for Sir Walter Raleigh) and brought him to Bideford following a skirmish in"
"John Galliano in London. She met Trinny Woodall in 1994, with whom she both proceeded to write a weekly fashion column, ""Ready to Wear"". They founded Ready2shop.com, a dot-com fashion advice business, and wrote their first fashion advice book in 2000, ""Ready 2 Dress"", both of which failed. From there they were commissioned to BBC Two to host the style series, ""What Not to Wear"", from 2001 to 2005. She made regular appearances as a style advisor on ""The Oprah Winfrey Show"" and following her success on the shows, she went on to co-host ""Trinny & Susannah Undress..."" on ITV"
"in the area known as the Gulf of Guinea. Given the normal route that these ships took, it is likely that he was transported to an island in the Caribbean before being redeemed by Andrew Douglas of Mains (which is near Milngavie in Dumbartonshire) and transported to Scotland in 1702. Douglas would probably have chosen the name Scipio, whose namesake Scipio Africanus served the Roman Empire, defeating the numerically superior forces of Hannibal in the Punic Wars. Douglas had a daughter, Jean, who married John Kennedy in 1705, and Scipio moved to Culzean with them. During this time Scipio learned"
"Cardero. Cardero Street, in Vancouver's West End is named for the strait, and only as a result indirectly for Jose Cardero. José Cardero José Cardero (also Josef Cardero) (1766 – after 1811) was a Spanish draughtsman and artist. He was born in 1766 in Écija, Spain. He is most remembered for his work on the expedition of Alessandro Malaspina and the related expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano. During the Galiano voyage Cordero Channel was named in his honor. Other places in British Columbia were later named in his honor as well, including Dibuxante Point, ""dibuxante"" being Spanish for ""draughtsman"". Nothing"
"the then-community of Charleston, Province of Canada (now ""Caledon Village"", part of Caledon, Ontario, Canada.) He was the sixth of 14 children, including two elder brothers who died in childhood. His father, born in Barrow, Alwinton, Northumberland, England (or possibly Jedboro, Scotland) on December 30, 1832, emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 17, later emigrating to Canada where he variously became a railroader, a hardware store owner (John Wanless & Sons), and a home heating furnace manufacturer in Toronto (where Wanless Park and several streets are named after one of their distant relations, also"
"met with critical acclaim and have sparked a renewed interest in London fashion. Having become one of the fashion industry's most fêted figures, Deacon was named British Fashion Designer of the Year in 2006 and was awarded the French ANDAM Fashion Award's Grand Prix in 2009. The designer was appointed creative director of French fashion house Ungaro in April 2010. Deacon retained the position until September 2011, when he and Ungaro mutually decided to end their collaboration. Deacon launched his first haute couture collection in 2016. Deacon was born in Darlington, County Durham, but grew up near Ullswater in the"
"Peter Gallina Peter Gallina (born in London) is an English fashion and advertising photographer, celebrity portraitist and visual artist based in London, but working internationally. His photography was first used commercially to launch the D fashion magazine distributed by the Italian newspaper la Repubblica in the late 1990s. Since then his work has been used or commissioned for clients ranging from MTV to Cosmopolitan. He has held many photographic exhibitions of his work, one of the largest of which was in Tokyo in the Spring of 2006. This exhibition, entitled ""Love Tokyo. Seen Unseen"", went on display at the “Gallery"
"just the name Galiano, and this has become the name by which he is most known. Galiano was born in Cabra, Córdoba, Spain, in 1760. He entered the Spanish navy in 1771, at the age of 11, and enrolled in the Spanish naval school in 1775. After graduation in 1779 he entered active service. He participated in several hydrographic surveys and became skilled in cartography. As a junior officer he spent time in the River Plate region and the Falkland Islands. He returned to Spain in 1783. In 1784 Galiano met and worked with Alessandro Malaspina, with whom he would"
"France 24, ""The Sunday Times"", ""Gatopardo"", and the ""San Francisco Chronicle"". He currently lives in Mexico City. According to the biography section in his official webpage, Grillo grew up in the coastal city of Brighton, England—famous for its pink candy, pebble beaches, colleges and bubbling night clubs. On the darker side, however, Brighton is notorious for being one of British's top places for drug consumption. And according to the author, few people there realize where the substances they are intaking come from or what they might give or takeaway from those countries. Moreover, Grillo began working as a drug war"
"she gave birth to his son James. On his return from the war, he reinvented himself with stronger Scottish roots, dispensing with his two middle names and acquiring the new middle name Robertson out of his habit of wearing Robertson tartan. Feeling strongly about his Scottish ancestry, he once claimed to have been born in 1905 under a distillery on the Isle of Skye; many sources listed his birthplace as Wigtown, Wigtownshire, now in Dumfries and Galloway. He lived in Wigtown at Orchardton House between 1946 and 1950. He unsuccessfully contested the North Angus and Mearns constituency for the Labour"
"that ""when a child, he removed with his British parents from South America to New Zealand"", which if correct would have duly classified him as a subject of the Queen. His actual paternal genealogy was not publicly known during his life and it is not known whether he was aware of it. A biography later claimed that his mother ""went to considerable lengths to invent a British pedigree"". In a 1993 interview, his daughter Jacqueline Dunn née Watson claimed he was born at sea in international waters off Chile. Watson attended the state school in Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand"
"21” in the Meridien Grand Pacific Hotel in the Odaiba area of Tokyo. The forty photographs were all printed by hand, with some as big as three meters by two meters, literally making it one of the largest photographic exhibitions Tokyo had seen. Gallina is a member of the British Press Photographers Association. Peter Gallina Peter Gallina (born in London) is an English fashion and advertising photographer, celebrity portraitist and visual artist based in London, but working internationally. His photography was first used commercially to launch the D fashion magazine distributed by the Italian newspaper la Repubblica in the late"
"(1888 – 6 February 1955) was a Gallipoli veteran and a humanitarian worker. He was born in London, raised in Scotland, and sailed to Australia in 1905, aged 17, working first as a jackaroo. He joined the Australian forces at the outbreak of the First World War and served in Gallipoli until being discharged for wounds and illness. He later became a journalist and writer. He and Joice NanKivell wed in 1919. They sailed for England and secured a contract to write a book on Ireland, which was published as ""Ireland in Travail"". In addition to the honours bestowed on"
"born on 29 October 1753 at Liège to Charles and his mistress Clementina Walkinshaw, whom he had met during the Jacobite rising of 1745 (when he came to Scotland from France in an attempt to regain by force the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, which had been lost by his grandfather, James II and VII, in 1689). Clementina (1720–1802) was the youngest of the ten daughters of John Walkinshaw of Barrowhill (1671–1731). The Walkinshaws owned the lands of Barrowfield and Camlachie, and her father had become a wealthy Glasgow merchant (founding the textile village of Calton). However, he was"
"originally from Spotorno at the foot of Monte Saccarello near the Ligurian capital of Genoa, but had been based in the port city of Livorno as the captain of a brigantine. He led his ship through the major Mediterranean ports trading in wool and hides becoming a frequent visitor to Gibraltar where he met local Maria Dominica Bignone whom he married at the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned in 1817. He was 27 and Maria was 20. Bignone was also of Ligurian descent with her family also hailing from Spotorno. Her surname also took its name from a nearby"
"to himself as ""an Englishman in Italiane"". John's father, Michelangelo Florio, born in Tuscany, had been a Franciscan friar before converting to the Protestant faith. He got into trouble with the Inquisition in Italy, after preaching in Naples, Padua, and Venice. Seeking refuge in England during the reign of Edward VI, he was appointed pastor of the Italian Protestant congregation in London in 1550. He was also a member of the household of William Cecil. He was dismissed from both on a charge of immorality, but William Cecil later fully forgave him. Little is known of Florio's mother; she may"
"Ghana and Tanzania in Africa; Jamaica, Barbados in the Caribbean; the United States, Canada in North America; and the United Kingdom in Europe. Scipio was born in 1784 in the Owu area of Yorubaland, in Abeokuta. He was captured by European trans-Atlantic slave traders in 1805 and taken together with other captured slaves to the Velekete Slave Market in Badagry, Nigeria's slave port from where he was shipped in a slave ship and taken upcountry to Camden, about 30 miles northeast of Columbia, South Carolina to Charleston, South Carolina, United States where he was sold as a slave to a"
"The Napoli in east Devon, and the flooding of the Cornish village of Boscastle. Hall was born in the village of Oakley, in Bedfordshire. (His parents later moved to Lincoln, and then Littlehampton in West Sussex.) He went to Littlehampton Community School and then the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he joined the college radio station, UKC Radio. Hall later did a diploma in broadcast journalism at University College, Cardiff. Hall joined the BBC as a trainee. He later worked for ITV. He worked around England before settling in the South West. Simon is married to Jess, who is"
"José Cardero José Cardero (also Josef Cardero) (1766 – after 1811) was a Spanish draughtsman and artist. He was born in 1766 in Écija, Spain. He is most remembered for his work on the expedition of Alessandro Malaspina and the related expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano. During the Galiano voyage Cordero Channel was named in his honor. Other places in British Columbia were later named in his honor as well, including Dibuxante Point, ""dibuxante"" being Spanish for ""draughtsman"". Nothing is known about Cardero's life until he sailed with Malaspina in 1789. He was a member of the crew of Malaspina's"
"Antonio Berardi Antonio Berardi (born 1968) is a British fashion designer of Sicilian descent, known especially for his dresses. He currently shows his collection at London fashion week, but has shown at Milan and Paris in the past. Berardi was born in Grantham, in Lincolnshire. His parents were Sicilians who emigrated to Britain in the 1950s. He developed an interest in fashion at a young age. As a nine-year-old he saved his money for Armani shirts with leather gusset shoulders. After secondary (high) school he decided on a career in design and, after attending Lincoln College of Art and Design,"
"British Nigerian British Nigerian is a term sometimes used to describe British people of Nigerian descent or Nigerians of British descent. This article is about residents and citizens of Nigerian descent living in Britain. Many Nigerians and their British-born descendants in Britain live in South London. They are one of the larger immigrant groups in the country. Nigerians have formed long-established communities in London, Liverpool and other industrial cities. The earliest known Nigerian presence in London took place over 200 years ago as a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade. Olaudah Equiano, born in what is now Nigeria and"
"Galiano Island Galiano Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Located on the west side of the Strait of Georgia, it is long, at its widest point, and across at its narrowest point and is separated from Saltspring Island by Trincomali Channel. On the western side of the island there are a series of sandstone caves. The island is northwest of Mayne Island, northeast of Saltspring Island and southeast of Valdes Island. It is part of the Capital Regional District Electoral Area G, and has a population of"
"Amanda Harlech Amanda Harlech, Baroness Harlech (born Amanda Jane Grieve) is a British creative consultant and writer with a long association with the couturiers John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1997. Amanda Jane Grieve was born in 1959 in north London, the daughter of Alan Grieve, a solicitor and director of the Jerwood Foundation and his first wife, Anne Dulake. She grew up in Regent's Park where one of her childhood companions was Jasper Conran. She was educated at South Hampstead High School and Marlborough College before studying"
"to Crete which then was overseas colony of the Republic of Venice under the name Kingdom of Candia. She became a slave mistress of a wealthy citizen, Giorgio Darvasio, who came from a Venetian merchant family. His father Marco already settled down on Crete, while his mother Ysabeta signed her last testament in Venice in 1416. It is plausible that Giorgio was born on Crete and inherited a large fortune from his father. He had strong business ties with the powerful Mocenigo family (when Margaret still resided on Crete, Tommaso Mocenigo, who later became ""doge"", ruled the island as Duke"
"27. He is credited with creating drinking chocolate. His name was later used for streets and places such as Hans Place, Hans Crescent, and Sloane Square in and around Chelsea, London – the area of his final residence – and also for Sir Hans Sloane Square in his birthplace in Ireland, Killyleagh. Sloane was born into an Ulster-Scots family on 16 April 1660 at Killyleagh, a village on the western shores of Strangford Lough in County Down in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. He was the seventh son of Alexander Sloane (died 1666), agent for The 1st Earl of"
"born in Tamworth, New South Wales and raised as one of six children on a sheep and cattle property about sixty kilometres north-east at Danglemah near Woolbrook. Joyce's paternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel John P. Joyce, landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, and fought on the Western Front during World War I as well as in the Pacific War during World War II. John also once served as a bodyguard to the future King Edward VIII during the interwar period. Barnaby's father, James Michael Joyce, was born in New Zealand and was injured in World War II. James Joyce moved"
"England as Jim, was born in Earls Colne, Essex, 20 miles from Constable's birthplace. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Westcliff-on-Sea on the Thames estuary, a location that gave him a lifelong affection for expanses of water and sky and which he much later recalled by acquiring paintings of the area by the English painter John Wonnacott. However, during the first world war the family moved to Shaftesbury in Dorset. There he eventually enrolled at Shaftesbury Grammar School where he stayed on as a boarder, even after the family had moved to London. In 1926, he declined a"
"is perhaps best known today. Jones believed in the search for a modern style unique to the nineteenth century, radically different from the prevailing aesthetics of Neo-Classicism and the Gothic Revival. He looked towards the Islamic world for much of this inspiration, using his studies of Islamic decoration at the Alhambra to develop theories on flat patterning, geometry and abstraction in ornament. Jones was born on 15 February 1809 at 148 Thames Street, London the son of Owen Jones (1741–1814), a successful furrier and amateur Welsh antiquary, and his wife, Hannah Jane Jones (1772/3–1838). Being the Son of Owen Jones"
"in need. He was born at Pauntley in Gloucestershire, England, although his family originated from Kinver in Staffordshire, England, where his grandfather Sir William de Whittington was a knight at arms. His date of birth is variously given as in the 1350s and he died in London in 1423. However, he was a younger son and so would not inherit his father's estate as the eldest son might expect to do. Consequently he was sent to the City of London to learn the trade of mercer. He became a successful trader, dealing in valuable imports such as silks and velvets,"