Googling 'beret' in Croatia comes with many results of HOS berets, for sale at web shops.
The Hrvatske obrambene snage or HOS (Croatian Defence Forces) were the paramilitary arm of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) from 1991 to 1992, during the first stages of the Yugoslav wars.
Despite everything that happened during the 1990’s, it appears many (young) Croatians are happy to don these symbols…
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The Australia men's national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team.
Australia have competed in all nine Men's Rugby World Cups,
winning the final on two occasions and also finishing as runner-up twice.
Australia beat England at Twickenham in the final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup
and won again in 1999 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff when their opponents
in the final were France.
The Wallabies also compete annually in The Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri-Nations), along with southern hemisphere counterparts Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa. They have won this championship on four occasions. Australia also plays Test matches against the various rugby-playing nations.
More than a dozen former Wallabies players have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame.
Sensi Studio is a fashion label founded by Stephany H. de Sensi-Contugi.
Her studio was launched in 2010 as a design and product lab. The collections include panama hats, berets, hand woven handbags, and other accessories manufactured in Ecuador, which are all completely handmade.
Eckhaus Latta is an American fashion brand with locations in Los Angeles and New York City.
The label was founded in 2011 by Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta. The two designers met as students at the Rhode Island School of Design, where Mike studied sculpture and Zoe textiles. In 2010, Eckhaus moved to NYC and began working as an accessories designer at Marc by Marc Jacobs while Latta ran a textiles business, Ruth Prince, selling prints to designers such as Calvin Klein and Proenza Schouler while designing knits for Opening Ceremony. Looking to move beyond the somewhat restricted commercial environments in which they worked, Eckhaus and Latta decided to design a collection together.
Ruslan Volodymyrovych Baginskiy is a Ukrainian headwear and
accessory designer, a founder of the eponymous Ruslan Baginskiy brand. Ruslan
is currently based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Baginskiy studied at the Faculty of Geography of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. At the age of 20 Baginskiy started to work as a stylist for shoots and shows of Ukrainian designers. In 2011, Ruslan made his first head piece for the fashion shoot. He soon became fascinated with the world of headwear, learning from the experience of local milliners and interning at a Lviv atelier.
In 2015, Ruslan Baginskiy started his own headwear and accessory brand.
Roberto Sierra (1953) is a Puerto Rican composer of contemporary classical music.
Sierra is a retired professor at Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York, where he taught composition.
Carei Thomas' career got its start in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he took piano lessons and was influenced by the culturally diverse Hill District.
Carei's family moved to Chicago during his teenage years.
While in high school, he formed a doo-wop group and continued expanding his
artistry through an interest in spontaneous vocal composition. In 1959, Carei
met Gregory "Duke" Hall who was staying on Chicago's West Side where
Carei lived.
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| Carei Thomas, Todd Harper, guest Brian Roessler and Paul Cantrell shown at the 2012 Studio Z performance |
In the late 1960's, Carei sat-in on piano with Dexter Gordon and Art Taylor in Paris and in 1972, Carei moved to Minneapolis and briefly studied composition at the University of Minnesota. He then began developing several controlled improvisational concepts he called "Brief Realities".
In the 1980's, Carei worked on other evolutions of
controlled improvisations, became interested in the healing aspects of sound
and color, and in having his artform be more than a performer/spectator one
with "down to earth" functionality. In the 1990's, Carei added to his
work the "smoke and mirrors" of acoustical and electronic music
considerations, which he called Phononomalies. He liked developing these tonal
fabrics (sound designs) to use them as a canvas accommodating the collaborative
endeavors of poetry, spoken work, dance, video, visual artforms, theatre, etc.
along with their closest friend ... Silence.
In 1993, Carei became seriously ill with Guillain-Barré
Syndrome and was hospitalized and in physical rehabilitation until 1995.
However, he continued to create and has adapted his hands to produce chords
much like the ones before he was paralyzed.
Great News for Billy Childish fans!
Ahmet Adnan Saygun (1907 –1991) was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music.
One of a group of composers known as the Turkish Five who
pioneered western classical music in Turkey, his works show a mastery of
Western musical practice, while also incorporating traditional Turkish folk
songs and culture. When alluding to folk elements he tends to spotlight one
note of the scale and weave a melody around it, based on a Turkish mode.
His extensive output includes five symphonies, five operas,
two piano concertos, concertos for violin, viola and cello, and a wide range of
chamber and choral works.
The Times called him "the grand old man of Turkish music, who was to his country what Jean Sibelius is to Finland, what Manuel de Falla is to Spain, and what Béla Bartók is to Hungary". Saygun was growing up in Turkey when he witnessed radical changes in his country’s politics and culture as the reforms of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had replaced the Ottoman Empire—which had ruled for nearly 600 years—with a new secular republic based on Western models and traditions. As Atatürk had created a new cultural identity for his people and newly founded nation, Saygun found his role in developing what Atatürk had begun.
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| Saygun in his youth, wearing a fez |
Helen Folasade Adu,(1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade, is a Nigerian-born English singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, and record producer.
With members Paul S. Denman, Andrew Hale, and Stuart Matthewman, she gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the English band Sade. Following the release of the band’s debut album (Diamond Life, 1984) they went on to release a string of multi-platinum selling albums The band were ranked at number 50 on VH1’s list of the “100 greatest artists of all time”
Petit Béret is the 1st château in the world dedicated to alcohol-free living.
Le Petit Béret was born from a singular ambition: to bring the world's finest vineyards to all types of customers, through the power of 100% natural, organic and alcohol-free beverages. After 5 years of R&D, they came up with a true technological revolution: a completely alcohol-free alternative to be shared and enjoyed by all.
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Dominique Laporte is nothing short of a worldwide reference in terms of oenology: in the past, he was the sommelier for several iconic luxury hotels, including Hotel Meurice in Paris and London's Connaught Hotel, not to mention the Great Eastern Hotel where he worked alongside Gordon Ramsay. In 2013, he joined Le Petit Béret's team to create a number of cuvée and aromatic blends. In the process, he shined a light on the refined flavours of grape varieties such as Syrah, Sauvignon and Grenache Cinsault.
Hand-in-hand with top French laboratories such as INRA and CTCPA, Dominique developed a positively unique natural formula. This innovative technical process brilliantly highlights what the grapes, and nature itself, have to offer: no alcohol, dealcoholisation, fermentation, preservatives neither sulphites are involved. All that's left is the blissfull experience of southern French vineyards.
A Royal Australian Navy beret in cotton, made by the Commonwealth
Government Clothing Factory, from some time after WWII.
The beret is made of stiff woven cotton with strong thread lines going in one direction. It’s tag reads: “CGCF, Size 7 3/8, RAN, Made in Australia”.
Rebekah Isabelle Laemmle (1909 –2014), known professionally as Carla Laemmle, was an American actress and dancer, and the niece of Universal Pictures studio founder Carl Laemmle.
As an actress/dancer, she is known primarily for her roles in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and Dracula (1931). At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving actors of the silent film era, with her career spanning nearly 90 years, also with one of the longest gaps.
