Miu Miu is a high fashion brand of women's clothing and accessories from the Prada fashion house. Miu Miu opened in 1993 and is headed by Miuccia Prada.^[1] The name of the collection is taken from her nickname.^[2]

Stores[link]

There are Miu Miu boutiques situated in Paris, Milano, Firenze, Rome, Venezia, Forte dei Marmi, Porto Cervo, Bologna, Cannes, London, Glasgow, Madrid, Zurich, St. Moritz, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Moscow, Istanbul, New York, Boston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, Bal Harbour, Beverly Hills, Honolulu, Melbourne, Singapore, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, Yokohama, Hiroshima, Macau, Busan, Seoul, Sydney, and Incheon.

Miu Miu also opened its first independent store in China in the MIX in the city of Shenzhen in 2009.^[3]

A new North American store will open in Houston in The Galleria during the summer of 2011 and in Short Hills, New Jersey in the Fall of 2011. Miu Miu has also opened their first Australian boutique at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne.^[4] A second will open at Westfield Sydney in 2011

A branch of the Miu Miu chain opened in Glasgow, Scotland in 2010 and is situated in the city's Fraser's department store.^[5]

Image[link]

Spokesmodels for the brand have included Chloë Sevigny, Katie Holmes,^[6] Vanessa Paradis, Kirsten Dunst, Laetitia Casta, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lindsay Lohan, Zhou Xun, Lindsey Wixson, Ginta Lapina and Siri Tollerod.^[7] The current spokesmodel is fifteen-year-old actress Hailee Steinfeld.

Miu Miu's resort 2012 campaign stars U.S. model Guinevere van Seenus, 34.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2050982/Miu-Miu-replaces-campaign-star-Hailee-Steinfeld-14-model-20-years-senior.html#ixzz1pyTsdn1C

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Short info about Miu Miu Fashion Shows, Runway Collections and Fashion Tv

Look up miu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Miu may refer to:

• Miu language, Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
• Miu Sakamoto (born 1980), J-pop singer
• Miu (Naga festival)
• Mobile incinerator unit, plant for waste treatment
• mIU is milli-IU, a thousandth of an International unit
• Ion Miu (born 1955), Romanian virtuoso cimbalom player

Characters[link]

• Miu Fūrinji, protagonist of the manga series Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi
• Miu Kurosaki, from the video game The King of Fighters EX
• Miu Matsuoka, from the manga series Strawberry Marshmallow (Ichigo Mashimaro)
• Miu Sutō, main character from the Japanese television series Engine Sentai Go-onger
• Miu, character appearing in the hentai series Lolita Anime

University names[link]

• Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt
• Miami International University of Art & Design, Miami, Florida
• Maharishi International University, now called the Maharishi University of Management

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Ashley Olsen
Olsen attending the premiere of The Union at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Ashley Fuller Olsen (1986-06-13) June 13, 1986 (age 26) Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress (1987-2004), fashion designer, producer, author, businesswoman
Years active	1987–present
Height	5'3

Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is an American actress, fashion designer, producer, author, and businesswoman.

Birth and family[link]

Olsen and her fraternal twin sister Mary-Kate Olsen were born in Sherman Oaks, California to David Olsen^[1] (born 1953) and Jarnette "Jarnie" Fuller (born 1954). Despite being very similar in appearance, they are not identical.^[2][3] They have an older brother, Trent, a little sister, Elizabeth Olsen, and two younger half siblings Taylor and Jake from their father's second marriage.^[4] Mary-Kate and Ashley's parents divorced in 1995.

Child and teen career[link]

Along with Mary-Kate, Olsen was cast at the age of nine months to share the role of Michelle Tanner on the ABC sitcom Full House. The Olsens portrayed Michelle throughout the series' 1987–1995 run. In the early 1990s, the sisters established a company, Dualstar, which produced a long string of TV movies and direct-to-video releases featuring the girls. The Olsens continued to release direct-to-video films up to the early 2000s, along with starring in the 1995 feature film It Takes Two. After Full House, the sisters starred in two other sitcoms (Two of a Kind and So Little Time) and an animated series (Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!), each of which lasted only one season. These ventures, combined with a massive array of licensing deals for their names and likenesses, made the twins phenomenally wealthy at a young age. They became co-presidents of Dualstar upon their eighteenth birthday. Following a second feature film, 2004's New York Minute, Ashley gave up acting because she didn't feel a connection to being an actress anymore.^[5] In 2009 when asked about acting again Ashley said, "Never say never."^[6] Ashley contemplated giving up fashion and going back to acting in 2009.^[7] Ashley changed her mind in 2012 as she and Mary-Kate decided to retire from acting to focus on fashion.^[8] In 2007 Mary-Kate and Ashley expressed an interest in producing movies together.^[9]

Fashion career[link]

As adults, Ashley and Mary-Kate have devoted much of their attention to the world of fashion. They head a couture fashion label, "The Row," as well as the "Elizabeth and James", "Olsenboye", and "StyleMint"^[10] retail collections. Ashley's sometimes controversial fashion choices have often found her on both the best^[11][12] and worst dressed fashion lists, particularly for her decision to wear fur.^[13] Mary-Kate and Ashley designed an Olsenboye Change Purse in 2011 and donated the money to "Pennies From Heaven".^[14] Back in 2011 Mary-Kate and Ashley teamed up with TOMS Shoes to design shoes for kids without shoes.^[15] Mary-Kate and Ashley are now the creative directors for Superga (brand).^[16]

Book[link]

In 2008 Mary-Kate and Ashley wrote a book called "Influence". "Influence" has interviews with fashion designers that have inspired the girls fashion lines.^[17]

Personal life[link]

In 2004, Olsen graduated from Campbell Hall School and began attending New York University with Mary-Kate. Both of them withdrew from NYU the following year, a few months apart, and returned to California.^[18] In 2005, Olsen filed a $40 million libel lawsuit against the National Enquirer over a cover story headlined "Ashley Olsen Caught in Drug Scandal" and featuring an unflattering photo of Olsen. The story described an alleged incident involving Olsen's then-boyfriend, which had occurred before he and Olsen had met.^[19] The Enquirer later apologized in a statement that said it "did not intend to accuse Ms. Olsen of being involved in any drug scandal."^[20]

Further reading[link]

• Olsen, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, with Damon Romine. Mary-Kate and Ashley: Our Story: Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen's Official Biography. HarperEntertainment 2000. ISBN 0-06-107569-8.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ashley Olsen at the Internet Movie Database
• Ashley Olsen at TV.com
• Ashley's Page
• Olsenboye

Lauren Conrad
Born	Lauren Katherine Conrad (1986-02-01) February 1, 1986 (age 26) Laguna Beach, California, U.S.
Other names	L.C.[1]
Occupation	Television personality, fashion designer, author
Years active	2004–present
Website
www.laurenconrad.com

Lauren Katherine Conrad (born February 1, 1986) is an American television personality and fashion designer.^[2] She came to prominence with her starring roles on the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and its spin-off series, The Hills, which at one point followed her personal and professional life as she pursued a career in the fashion industry.

Conrad has written three books in her L.A. Candy trilogy with a spin-off trilogy in the works, and has two fashion lines; LC by Lauren Conrad and Paper Crown. She, her hairstylist, and her makeup artist run a beauty website, The Beauty Department.^[3][4][5]

Early life[link]

Conrad was born in Laguna Beach, California to parents Jim and Kathy. She is the oldest of three children. Her younger siblings are Breanna and Brandon.^[6] In 2004, Conrad appeared on MTV Cribs, giving a tour of her Laguna Beach home.^[7]

Career[link]

[edit] 2004–09: Laguna Beach and The Hills

During Conrad's senior year of high school, she appeared in the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County in which she agreed to have her life taped. Upon graduation in 2004, she attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for one semester along with her friend, Heidi Montag. During the second season of Laguna Beach, she returned home and began taking classes at a local community college before subsequently transferring to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.^[6]

Conrad at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.

After the success of Laguna Beach, MTV developed The Hills, a spin-off series. The series originally documented the personal and professional lives of Lauren and her friends (Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge, and Whitney Port) while living in Los Angeles, California. The first season premiered on MTV on May 31, 2006. At the time, Conrad was an intern at Teen Vogue while living with then-housemate Heidi Montag.^[8]

The series was later renewed for a second season, which was filmed from late summer 2006 through February 2007 and premiered on January 15, 2007. During that time, Conrad and Montag's friendship deteriorated, as Heidi was increasingly spending her time with her new boyfriend, Spencer Pratt. By February 2007, Audrina Patridge became Conrad's roommate after Montag moved into a separate apartment with Pratt.^[9] Filming for the third season of The Hills began in mid-summer 2007 and lasted through March 2008. The premiere episode of season 3 aired on August 13, 2007. During that time, Conrad was able to revive her position at Teen Vogue and was offered a trip to Paris alongside Whitney Port. By March 2008, Port had left Teen Vogue for fashion PR firm People's Revolution, and after asking Conrad to assist at an event, Kelly Cutrone invited her to work for her company.

Filming for the fourth season of The Hills began in mid-summer 2008 and lasted through November 2008. The premiere episode of Season 4 aired on August 18, 2009. Filming for Season 5 began in January 2009, and the premiere episode aired April 6, 2009. Conrad confirmed that the fifth season would be her last.^[10] She made her final appearance in the series on May 31, 2009. The program continued without her, with former Laguna Beach castmate Kristin Cavallari being hired as Conrad's replacement. In March 2010, it was announced that the sixth season of The Hills would be the last.^[11] There was much speculation that Conrad would make a guest appearance for the series finale. The series ended on July 13, 2010, after airing six seasons and 102 episodes. She did not appear in the finale, but later said that she filmed an alternate ending of the series with Brody Jenner.^[12]

2007–09: Early fashion and retail endeavors[link]

Conrad at VH1's 2009 Divas concert

Conrad landed an internship at Teen Vogue while filming season one of The Hills.^[6] Conrad and her reality show appearances have been credited with improving sales of Teen Vogue. It was reported in March 2007 that since the second season of The Hills began airing in mid-January, newsstand sales for the magazine increased by double digits over 2006 sales. According to Lisa Love, the West Coast editor of Vogue who evaluated Conrad for the internship position, Conrad had to interview successfully in order to get the job, "regardless of what the cameras wanted".^[13] In January 2007, Conrad was named the first official spokesperson of "mark.", a line created by Avon and marketed toward young women. She was featured in the brand’s magalog and in the "mark." online community.^[14] Conrad was replaced by Ashley Greene in June 2010.^[15]