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Anna, Anne, or Ann may refer to:

• Anna (given name)
  • Anne, a derivation of Anna

People[link]

• Anna (Bible), also known as Anna the Prophetess in the Gospel of Luke
• Saint Anne, known by tradition as the mother of the Virgin Mary
• King Anna of East Anglia (died c. 654), ruler of the East Angles
• Anna Porphyrogeneta (963–1011), sister of Basil II, the Byzantine emperor
• Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418)
• Anna of Denmark (1532–1585), Electress of Saxony and Margravine of Meissen
• Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425), countess consort of Celje in Slovenia
• Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg (1432–1462)
• Anne of Brittany (1488–1514), Breton ruler
• Anna Phersönernas moder (died 1568), Swedish alleged witch
• Anna of Russia (1693–1740), Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740
• Anna Mary Robertson Moses, (1860–1961), United States painter known as "Grandma Moses"
• Anna, codename of Alfred Frenzel (1899–1968), a Czechoslovakian spy
• Anna, popular name of C. N. Annadurai (1909–1969), Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India
• Anna, popular name of N. T. Rama Rao (1923–1996), Chief Minister of AndhraPradesh, India
• Anna (singer) (born 1987), Japanese-American singer
• Annah Graefe, late 20th- early 21st-century German folksinger
• Queen Anne (disambiguation), list of queens bearing the name Anne
• Princess Anne (disambiguation), list of princesses bearing the name Anne
• C. N. Annadurai, shortly referred to as Anna, former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu
• Anna Hazare (born 1937): Indian social activist

Places[link]

• Anna, Valencia, Spain
• Anna, Illinois, United States
• Anna, Ohio, United States
• Ann, Burma, a town in Rakhine State, Myanmar
• Anna, Estonia, a village in Paide Commune, Järva County, Estonia
• Anna, Latvia, a village in the Alūksne District, Latvia
• Anna, Voronezh Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Voronezh Oblast, Russia
• Anna Paulowna, a municipality and town in the Netherlands
• Anna Regina, the capital of the Pomeroon-Supenaam Region of Guyana
• Anna Salai, an arterial road in Chennai, India
• Anna Valley, a village in Hampshire, United Kingdom
• Lake Anna, a freshwater lake in central Virginia
• Anna Cave, a natural limestone cave in Miskolc-Lillafüred, Hungary
• Anna River (disambiguation), any of several rivers in the United States
• Anna University, an engineering university in India
• Anna University of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, an engineering university in India

Culture and society[link]

Films, television, theater, and games[link]

• Anna (1951 film), Italian film directed by Alberto Lattuada
• Anna (1964 film), Indian Malayalam film directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan
• Anna (1967 film), French film starring Anna Karina
• Anna (1970 film), Finnish film starring Harriet Andersson
• Anna (1987 film), American film about a Czech actress in New York City
• Anna (1994 film), Indian Telugu film directed by Muthyala Subbaiah starring Rajasekhar, Roja and Gauthami
• Anna and the King (TV series), American TV series
• Anna and the King of Siam (film), 1946 American film directed by John Cromwell
• Anna and the Wolves, 1973 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura
• Anna: 6 - 18, 1993 documentary by Nikita Mikhalkov
• Anna M. (2007), French film directed by Michel Spinosa
• Anne (Little Britain), a character in the Little Britain radio and TV show
• "Anne" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode)
• Anna or Ti'ana, a fictional character in the Myst games
• Anna Williams (Tekken), fictional character in the Tekken video game series
• Anna, a character in the animated series Space Carrier Blue Noah

Literature[link]

• Anna, the main character in the book Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn
• Anna (magazine), a Finnish women's magazine
• Anna and the King of Siam (book), a semi-fictionalised biographical novel by Margaret Landon
• Anna Christie, a play by Eugene O'Neill
• Anna Karenina, a novel by Leo Tolstoy
• Anna Lombard a novel by Annie Sophie Cory
• Anne of Green Gables, a series of novels by L. M. Montgomery
• Anna, the sister of Dido, Queen of Carthage, in Roman mythology and later literature
• Anna, an early name for Morgause of Arthurian legend

Music[link]

• "Anna", a 2011 song by Charlotte Gainsbourg on her album Stage Whisper
• "Anna", a 1975 song by Bad Company on their album Straight Shooter
• "Anna", a 1970 song by Lucio Battisti
• "Anna", a song by Toto from their album The Seventh One
• "Anna (Go to Him)", a 1962 song by Arthur Alexander, later covered by The Beatles
• "Anna's Song", a 1978 song by Marvin Gaye
• "Ana's Song (Open Fire)", a 1998 song by Silverchair
• "Boten Anna" ("Anna, the bot"), a song by Swedish dance musician BassHunter
• "Anna e Marco", a 1977 song by Lucio Dalla
• Anna Records, early Motown label
• "Anna Begins", a song by Counting Crows
• "Ana", a song by Pixies
• ANNA (band), a Ukrainian nu-metal band

Science[link]

• Anna (dog), first survivor of experimental pulmonary bypass surgery
• Anna, a genus of the family of large sea snails Buccinidae

Vehicles[link]

• Anna (1912 automobile), a defunct automobile of unknown origin
• HMS Anne, the ship that carried James Oglethorpe and the first settlers of Georgia in 1732
• MV Anna, a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker
• SS Anny, an Italian coastal tanker, later fitted with a diesel engine and thus becoming MV Anny

Other uses[link]

• Anna (era) (安和, An'na^?), Japanese era from 968 to 970
• Indian anna, currency unit formerly used in India, equal to the 16th part of a rupee
• Anna University, engineering school in India
• Pommes Anna, or Anna Potatoes, a classic French potato dish

See also[link]

• ANN (disambiguation)
• Anya
• Santa Ana (disambiguation)
• Saint Anne (disambiguation)
• Annie (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Ann", including many people with forename Ann
• All pages beginning with "Anna", including many people with forename Anna
• All pages beginning with "Anne", including many people with forename Anne
• All pages beginning with "Annie", including many people with forename Annie
• All pages with titles containing "Anna"
• All pages with titles containing "Ann"
• All pages with titles containing "Anne"
• All pages with titles containing "Annie"
• Hannah (given name)

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Anne Klein (August 3, 1923 - March 19, 1974) was an American fashion designer who founded her own women's sportswear and apparel label.

Biography[link]

Anne Klein was born as Hannah Golofski to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York on August 3, 1923. She studied art at Girls' Commercial High School in Brooklyn and later went to the Traphagen School of Design in New York from 1937 to 1938 to study fashion. She married her first husband, Ben Klein, in the early 1940s, and together they founded Junior Sophisticates – a clothing company which completely transformed the clothing styles, choices, and attitudes of young American women. The company revolutionized the junior market, doing away with the traditional "little-girl" clothing that featured button-and-bow detailing, and addressing the primary need of this important group—the desire to look more stylish, more polished, and, above all, more grown up.

Beginning as a sketcher she later rose to prominence as a designer of women's sportswear and apparel, establishing Anne Klein and Co. with fashion guru Gunther Oppenheim in 1968. Klein died of breast cancer on March 19, 1974 at age 50.

Fashion label[link]

The Anne Klein label was established in 1968 as a partnership with famed fashion guru Gunther Oppenheim. In 1971, Klein met Tomio Taki from Takihyo who approached her to enter a joint-venture to manufacture in the Far-East with materials bought in Europe for sale in the US and Japan. The joint-venture never materialized as the margins were too thin; however, Klein approached Taki to partner in the company and by 1973 Takihyo owned 25% of the Anne Klein Company.

In 1974 Anne Klein died, leaving her equity position in the hands of her second husband, Chip Rubenstein. Oppenheim wanted to sell his shares in the company, and Taki bought Oppenheim out despite the death of the company's driving force. There was great contention among Taki, Oppenheim, and Rubenstein regarding Anne's successor. Taki wanted to elevate the assistant designer, but Oppenheim and Rubenstein wanted a name-brand designer to take the helm. At the time, Taki had the largest individual stake in the company so his equity position allowed him to promote the assistant Donna Karan, who a decade later became a household name. In a matter of a few years after Anne's death with Donna Karan leading the design-room, Takihyo purchased all of Rubenstein's position.

The success of the Anne Klein brand led to the development of the first bridge-line in American fashion, Anne Klein II. A line with a price point just under designer-label fashion yet still much better quality than better, moderate, and budget lines while maintaining a similar look. The bridge-line was a new system Klein developed with Taki before her death. Depending on the garment, certain fabrics or manufacturing methods, or both in some cases, would change to offer a lower price point for consumers. For example, a skirt may be made from 8 leaves of fabric rather than 2. The leaves could be used modularly as well to increase the number of garments made from a given amount of material. Jackets would be cut a little shorter in the back. While consumers may not notice a big difference in the garment, the savings from three inches increased productivity at the manufacturing level.

Anne Klein then Anne Klein II were continued after her death by Donna Karan and Louis Dell'Ollio as head designers until 1985. Taki and his partner Frank Mori at Takihyo then fired Donna on a Friday to hire her the next Monday to begin a new partnership that became the highly successful Donna Karan New York line followed by its diffusion line, DKNY.

In 2001, fashion designer Charles Nolan was hired to revive Anne Klein's image as a hipper, more fashion-forward brand.

Anne Klein and Co is currently owned by Jones Apparel Group, who acquired then-parent company Kasper it in 2003.

The Anne Klein brand of watches are made by Sutton Time.

Awards[link]

• Mademoiselle Merit Award, 1954
• Coty American Fashion Critics Award, 1955, 1969
• Neiman Marcus Award, 1959, 1969
• Lord and Taylor Award, 1964
• National Cotton Council Award, 1965

External links[link]

• Anne Klein designer profile at Fashion Model Directory
• Bio information
• Sewing patterns by Anne Klein

Laura Biagiotti (born 1943 in Rome) is an Italian high fashion designer. She studied literature in Rome, expecting to become an archeologist. Then she started to help out at Mum and Dad's dressmaking business and had her first fashion show in 1972.^[1] Her mother, Delia Biagiotti had designed the uniforms for Alitalia staff in 1964.^[2]

The House of Biagiotti (based on Via dei Condotti in Rome) is now listed among the largest fashion houses in Italy. She moved to Beijing for some time and was the first Italian designer to present a collection in China in April 1988^[3]

According to her company's website in 1995 she received an award from the President of Italy for her contributions to fashion and later the Marco Polo award from the Chinese government for promoting fashion in China. She also received the Leonardo Prize in Italy.^[4] The Italian post office issued a 41 Euro cent stamp with her name in 2002.

She received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2011.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Biagiotti Website http://www.laurabiagiotti.it
• Laura Biagiotti designer profile at Fashion Model Directory

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Sara Nuru
Born	Sara Nuru (1989-08-19) August 19, 1989 (age 22)
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Brown
Measurements	78–62–93 (EU) 30.75–24.5–36.5 (US)
Dress size	36 EU/6 US/8 UK
Website
www.saranuru.com

Sara Nuru (born August 19, 1989 in Erding, Germany) is a German fashion model of Ethiopian descent. She was the winner of the fourth cycle of Germany's Next Top Model.^[1][2]

Biography[link]

Sara Nuru was born as the third daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, who left their home in 1986 and settled down in Erding, in southern Germany. The family lived in Erding until 1999 before they moved to Munich. Nuru is fluent in German, English and Arabic. She also speaks a little bit of Amharic.

It was during her highschool days, when a friend of her persuaded her to participate in the fourth cycle casting of Germany's Next Topmodel in Munich. Nuru was chosen as one of the finalists and won jobs for Sony Ericsson and Gilette during the competition. On May 21, 2009, Nuru was announced as the fourth cycle's winner and the first winner of color. Unlike the three previous winner of Germany's Next Topmodel, Nuru did not win a modeling contract with IMG Models, but with the Heidi Klum GmbH, whose manager is Heidi's father Günther.

Before Nuru won Germany's Next Topmodel, she already had the opportunity to gain experiences as a model for friendly designers, after she was approached by a photographer when she was 15 years old. She appeared in a fashion show held in Dresden which also featured cycle 3's winner Jennifer Hof.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sara Nuru at the Fashion Model Directory
• Sara Nuru at the Internet Movie Database

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