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Maybe Giorgio armani,the italian,worldwide known designer.

He is a male (sorry),but he inspires the world of fashion today.

Armani was also the first designer to ban models from his catalogues,shows,ect. with a body mass index under 18, after model Ana Carolina Reston starved herself to death due to anorexia nervosa.

This is him:

Theres also an obvious one; Florence Nightingale

(the above picture is her whilst doing what she used to: heal)

I also think the British Army are inspirational,im not sure if you watched a programme called wounded on BBC1 a few nights ago,but it really makes you see what they have to go through on a day to day basis.

If you were going to draw them,you could use an 'action shot' of the front line.

One like this:

Or maybe one when the familes come back to meet.

Hugging,tears,ect.

I hope this helps :]x

How many employees does Zara have worldwide?

I dont know! But each Zara probobly has a lot! Probobly...30 employees each! Theres one in New york theres one in italy, Spain,

10,000 new designs each year

Zara is the flagship chain store for the Spanish Inditex Group owned by Spanish tycoon Amancio Ortega, who also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius and Bershka. The group is headquartered in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, where the first Zara store opened in 1975. Today, Inditex is probably the world's fastest growing retailer with Zara is a business model that has enabled it to expand and compete with quality brands at affordable prices. For instance, it is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks [1] to develop a new product and get it to stores, compared with a nine-month industry average, and launches around 10,000 new designs each year. Zara has resisted the industry-wide trend towards transferring production to low-cost countries. Perhaps its most unusual strategy was its policy of zero advertising; the company preferred to invest a percentage of revenues in opening new stores instead.

Zara was described by Louis Vuitton fashion director Daniel Piette as "possibly the most innovative and devastating retailer in the world". Zara has also been described as a "Spanish success story" by CNN.[2]

The founder of Zara Amancio Ortega opened first Zara store in 1975.[3] The first Zara store was located on a central street in A Coruña.[4] Upon the success of Zara format, the firm started to expand and opened further stores.

Its first store featured low-priced lookalike products of popular, higher-end clothing fashions.[5] The store proved to be a success, and Ortega started opening more Zara stores in Spain. By the early 1980s, Ortega had begun formulating a new type of design and distribution model. The clothing industry followed design and production processes that required long lead times, often up to six months, between the initial design of a garment and its delivery to retailers. This model effectively limited manufacturers and distributors to just two or three collections per year. Predicting consumer tastes ahead of time presented inherent difficulties, and producers and distributors faced the constant risk of becoming saddled with unsold inventory.

Ortega sought a means of breaking the model by creating what he called "instant fashions" that allowed him to quickly respond to shifts in consumer tastes and to newly emerging trends. Ortega's dream remained unfulfilled, however, until he met up with José Maria Castellano. A computer expert, Castellano had worked in Aegon Espana's information technology department before becoming chief financial officer for a Spanish subsidiary of ConAgra. Castellano joined Ortega in 1984 and set to work developing a distribution model that revolutionized the global clothing industry.

Under Castellano's computerized system, the company reduced its design to distribution process to just 10 to 15 days. Rather than placing the design burden on a single designer, the company developed its own in-house team of designers—more than 200 by the turn of the 21st century—who began developing clothes based on popular fashions, while at the same time producing the company's own designs. In this way, the team was able to respond almost immediately to emerging consumer trends as well as to the demands of the company's own customers—for instance, by adding new colors or patterns to existing designs. State-of-the-art production and warehousing procedures, as well as the installation of computerized inventory systems linking stores to the company's growing number of factories, enabled the company to avoid taking on the risk and capital outlay of developing and maintaining a large back inventory.

The leaner, more responsive company—which adopted the name of Industria de Diseño Textil S.A., or Inditex, in 1985—captured the attention of Spanish shoppers. By the end of the decade, the company had opened more than 80 Zara stores in Spain. The company's instant fashion model, which completely rotated its retail stock every two weeks, also encouraged customers to return often to its stores, with delivery day becoming known as "Z-day" in some markets. The knowledge that clothing items would not be available for very long also encouraged shoppers to make their purchases more quickly.

The success of the Zara model in Spain led Inditex to the international market at the end of the 1980s. In 1988, the company opened its first foreign store in Oporto, Portugal. The following year, Inditex moved into the United States. Success in that market remained elusive, however, and at the beginning of the 2000s, the company had opened just six U.S. stores. A more receptive market for the Zara format existed in France, which Inditex entered in 1990. The company quickly began adding new stores in major city centers throughout the country.

Through the 1990s, Inditex added a steady stream of new markets. The company entered Mexico in 1992, Greece in 1993, Belgium and Sweden in 1994, Malta in 1995, and Cyprus in 1996. In the late 1990s, Inditex stepped up the pace of its international expansion, adding Israel, Norway, Turkey, and Japan (the latter in a joint-venture with a local partner) in 1997, then, in 1998, moved into Argentina, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. While the bulk of the group's stores remained company owned, in certain markets, such as the Middle East, starting in 1998, Inditex's expansion took place through franchise agreements with local distributors. By 2000, Inditex had added another dozen or so countries to its range of operations, including Germany, the Netherlands, and Eastern European markets including Poland.

[edit] Zara stores

Zara has 1058 stores located in 68 countries around the world [6]. The average Zara store is about 1500 square meters[7]. Zara strategically opens its stores in heavily trafficked, high-end retail areas[8].

The countries in which Zara operates are:[9].

Country Number of stores

Spain 364

France 103

Portugal 59

Italy 57

Germany 56

United Kingdom 50

Brazil 47

Greece 43

United States 3 0

Japan 28

Belgium 20

Turkey 19

Mexico 1 8

Saudi Arabia 18

Poland 17

Russia 16

Canada 14

Israel 13

Netherlands 13

China (including: Hong Kong and Macau) 11

Sweden 9

Austria 9

Switzerland 9

Argentina 9

Venezuela 9

Chile 6

Indonesia 6

Ireland 6

Czech Republic 5

Kuwait 5

Malaysia 5

Philippines 5

Singapore 5

United Arab Emirates 5

Cyprus 4

Denmark 4

Finland 4

Lithuania 4

Slovenia 4

Serbia 3

Colombia 3

Hungary 3

Latvia 3

Morocco 3

Thailand 3

Costa Rica 2

El Salvador 2

Iceland 2

Jordan 2

Lebanon 2

Luxembourg 2

Panama 2

Qatar 2

Romania 2

Uruguay 2

Malta 1

Andorra 1

Bahrain 1

Croatia 1

Dominican Republic 1

Estonia 1

Guatemala 1

Monaco 1

Norway 1

Slovakia 1

Tunisia 1

Nepal 1

What effect has Leonardo Da Vinci made on the present day?

Arts:

With the genius and legacy of Leonardo da Vinci having captivated authors and scholars generations after his death, many examples of "da Vinci fiction" can be found in culture and literature. The most prominent example is Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code (2003), which alleged that Leonardo da Vinci was a member of a secret society called the Priory of Sion.

Leonardo is well known for his artistry and paintings, such as Last Supper (Ultima Cena or Cenacolo, in Milan) 1498, and the Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda, now at the Louvre in Paris), 1503-1506. Though there is significant debate whether Leonardo himself painted the Mona Lisa, or whether it was the work of his students, it is known that it was probably his favorite piece. He most likely kept it with him at all times, and not travelling without it. Thousands of people see it each year in the Louvre, perhaps drawing their own interpretation on what is known as the Mona Lisa's most infamous and enigmatic feature - her smile.

Leonardo often planned grandiose paintings with many drawings and sketches, only to leave the projects unfinished. For example, in 1481 he was commissioned to paint the altarpiece "The Adoration of the Magi". After extensive, ambitious plans and many drawings, the painting was left unfinished and Leonardo left for Milan. Only seventeen of his paintings and none of his statues survived.

In Milan he spent 17 years making plans and models for a monumental seven-metre (24-foot) high horse statue in bronze ("Gran Cavallo". Because of war with France, the project was never finished. Based on private initiative, a similar statue was completed according to some of his plans in 1999 in New York, given to Milan and erected there. The Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland has a small bronze horse, thought to be the work of an apprentice from Leonardo's original design.

Leonardo pioneered new painting techniques in many of his pieces. One of them, a colour shading technique called "Sfumato", used a series of custom-made glazes by Leonardo. It is characterized by subtle, almost infinitesimal, transitions between color areas, creating a atmospheric haze or smoky effect. "Chiaroscuro" is the technique of modelling and defining forms through contrasts of light and shadow.

Science:

Among his many scientific achievements were da Vinci's discoveries in anatomy. Besides artistic talent, he possessed the "stomach" to dissect of both humans and animals. Dissections weren't common in da Vinci's day, but probably weren't illegal, either. Though his understanding of the respiratory system added little to medieval knowledge, his studies of skeletal and muscle tissue, brain anatomy, and digestive and reproductive systems advanced human anatomical understanding to a new level. Interestingly, he felt that the similar appearance of branching blood vessels, branching stems, and mingling tributaries weren't just coincidence; the actually were fundamentally the same. In that same spirit of unified microcosm/macrocosm, he investigated geology.

Around 1480, some Milanese peasants brought da Vinci a bag of fossil shells. For the next quarter of a century, he pondered the shells' meaning, and apparently visited the site where they had been collected. After years of study, he not only doubted that Noah's flood had carried the fossils to their present locations, he also questioned whether there had even been such a worldwide deluge. He also suspected a much older earth than what the Bible described.

As to those who say that shells existed for a long time and were born at a distance from the sea, from the nature of the place and of the cycles, which can influence a place to produce such creatures — to them it may be answered: such an influence could not place the animals all on one line, except those of the same sort and age; and not the old with the young, nor some with an operculum and others without their operculum, nor some broken and others whole, nor some filled with sea-sand and large and small fragments of other shells inside the whole shells which remained open; nor the claws of crabs without the rest of their bodies . . . And the deluge cannot have carried them there, because things that are heavier than water do not float on the water.

Da Vinci rejected the notion that fossils were just "sports of nature," understanding instead that they belonged to once-living organisms. He noted that fossil shells appeared in several different horizons in the mountains, meaning they could not have all been deposited in a single deluge, nor could slow-moving mollusks reach the mountains in the biblical flood's short duration. He devoted years to studying the behavior of water and identified the sedimentary rocks that water deposits. He even anticipated the 20th-century theory of plate tectonics by considering the possibility of uplift in mountain building.