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Lacoste S.A. is a French luxury sports fashion company, founded in 1933 by tennis player René Lacoste, and entrepreneur André Gillier. It sells clothing , footwear , sportswear , eyewear , leather goods , perfume , towels and watches .
Jean René Lacoste (2 July 1904 – 12 October 1996) was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" because of how he dealt with his opponents; [2] he is also known worldwide as the creator of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929, and eventually founded the brand and its logo in 1933.
Lacoste (French pronunciation:; Occitan: La Còsta) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Its population doubles in size during the height of the summer tourist season.
From 1926 until 1930, either Lacoste or Cochet was ranked No. 1 in the world, and in 1926 and 1927 all four musketeers were ranked in the top-10. [10] The only player capable of challenging their dominance was the great American Bill Tilden ( world number-one from 1920 until 1926, when Lacoste took over the position).
Jean-Yves Lacoste is a French philosopher. Lacoste is associated with what Dominique Janicaud called the "theological turn in phenomenology", along with other influential French phenomenologists like Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis Chrétien. [1] Lacoste's work straddles philosophy and theology, and displays an interest in what ...
Château de Lacoste Aerial view of the castle and Lacoste village. The castle's origins are in the 11th century, [2] but it was largely modified in subsequent centuries. It was for many years the property of the Simiane family. Two hypotheses are suggested for the transfer of the castle from the Simianes to the Sades.
Bubunne is a matriarchal totalitarian country led by the ruthless La Générale (Generaless). In Bubunne, the roles of men and women are reversed, up to the point where the male population is deprived of any civil rights, including work, education, military service, freedom of marriage etc. Men wear veils called "Voilerie" that are similar to burqas but without covering the entire face; they ...
Thadée Natanson of La Revue Blanche expressed confusion over its meaning, describing it as "obscure". [ 12 ] The critic André Fontainas of the Mercure de France acknowledged grudging respect for the work but thought the allegory would be impenetrable without the inscription, and compared the painting to Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and ...