Branded products like Gucci, Prada, Armani, Versace and many others are literally everyone’s favourite. These are your first preference when you are shopping in the mall weather for your family friend or for yourself. All of the brands which I have mentioned here are extremely popular across the whole world and the reason you know it’s because of the quality they are providing.

It’s true that everyone can’t enjoy these products as they are meant for high-end customers who really earn very well. But have you ever wondered how do the owners of these fashion brands look in real life? Not sure?

Have a look below at the faces behind popular and expensive brands

1. Vera Wang

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She (Vera Wang) is one of the most famous wedding dress designers. Vera Wang was born and brought up in New York City. She had worked at the Vogue Magazine as the youngest editor before starting up with her own brand. Go and try out her dresses if your wedding is near.

2. Giorgio Armani

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Armani is the most successful designer in Italy. He is well known for his tailored clothing all over the world. Do you know that the red carpet fashion was pioneered by Mr Armani.?

3. Marc Jacobs

via: The Independent

Marc Jacobs is the popular designer who is known for his peculiar styles in the feminine. He was also awarded as the Best Women Designer of the Year in the year 2016 by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Won’t you try her dresses?

4. Gianni Versace

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Well, this fashion designer has learned basic sewing from her mother and later he started his own boutique. He was one of the first designers who related music with fashion.  His designer works were mostly inspired by pop and contemporary ethnicity.

5. Miuccia Prada

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Miuccia Prada is the head designer of the brand, Prada. She is best known for connecting fashion sense with art. She has also been chosen among one of the best-dressed women of the world. Her brilliance can be easily seen by her designer dresses.

6. Calvin Klein

via: WWD

He is the popular man behind introducing undergarment fashion. He is responsible for bringing such a drastic change in the fashion industry. His brand is also well known for its other products which include accessories, perfumes and clothes as well.

7. Roberto Cavalli

via: Racked

Do you know he is a school drop out? He left his schooling to continue his passion for studying weaving techniques and to start his own business. He presented his very first collection at the age of 32. After that, he opened his own boutique named Saint-Tropez and which is now known for his sexy designs.

8. Michael Kors

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Michael is popularly known for his best and seamless designs. He was born in the city of Long Island. You might be shocked to know that he began learning the basic norms of fashion at an early age of 5 when re redesigned his mother’s wedding dress.

He launched his brand long back in 1981 and his fan base includes Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton as well.

Not everyone is encouraged to protect the environment. It takes a lot of courage and effort to take initiative in order to secure our planet. There are a plethora of organisations that are doing a great job to save the earth from the pollution caused by humans which affects our planet earth.

But today, I will introduce you some of the environmentalists or you can say who is just like a superhero in real life when it comes to saving our precious nature. They have taken the bold steps to clean and maintain a healthy way in every way possible.

Scroll down to know about them more:

1. Mansukhbhai Raghavjibhai Prajapati

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He is the founder of Mitti Cool Fridge, a refrigerator which is made up of only clay and nothing else. The mini refrigerator can hold perishable items for a week and is able to cool water and milk. It is extremely cheap and is a life-saver to many villagers of the country. I think it is really one of the coolest inventions known till now. 

2. M. Y. Yoganathan

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M.Y. Yoganathan is a conductor by profession. He works with the Coimbatore Transport Corporation and he does not know how to read or write. Despite his inability to read and write, he has planted more than 38,000 trees over the past 26 years.

Apart from doing this, he also teaches students the importance of environment conservation in schools across Tamil Nadu.

3. Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal

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He is a saint and also a social worker in real life, who took the pledge to clean the dying Beas river of Punjab. He also cleaned Kali Bein river bed and brought to life. He is popularly known as ‘Eco Baba’ among his followers.

4. Shubhendu Sharma

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He is truly an inspiration to most of us. He kicked off his high-end job to start ‘Afforestt’, a company that makes a natural forest in small places using the unique Miyawaki methodology to grow saplings.

By implementing this method, he has managed to convert 48 barren lands into a self-sustainable forest in a span of 4 years.

5. Afroz Shah

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Afroz is a lawyer by profession who took the initiative to clean and transform Mumbai’s Versova Beach. This mission took him 85 weeks to complete after which he had collected 4,000 tons of trash or waste from the 2.5 km beach.

6. Narayana Peesapaty

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He is a man behind making an incredible invention of edible cutlery from combat plastic. Isn’t that unique? The cutlery is being made by using the combination of Jowar, rice and wheat flour in a manner that it contains a mix of 3 flavours i.e. sweet, spicy and plain.

7. Anurag & Satyendra Meena

via: The Better India

They are the two final years IIT Bombay graduated who have created a free water dispensing machine without spending even single money. The machine invented by them is popularly known as the “Swachh Machine” which is already being marketed and promoted by a Chandigarh-based start-up named Trestor.

It is correctly said that “Books are our best friends”. It’s great if you read lots of books as they are quite beneficial in shaping up your knowledge, give the meaning to your life, transform the way you think and above all removing your all-day-long stress after work. Only a book lover or an avid reader can only tell the joy of reading a good book.

You must have heard that phrase “books are many, time is little” which means there are a number of books and thousands of sources from where you can read if you don’t want to purchase a book, but for reading, you would need patience and some effort.

If you are a beginner or a pro at reading books, then you can surely check out and find whether you have missed reading any?

1. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

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A novel published in 1960. It is the timeless and a classic novel that explores themes of justice and innocence through the human behaviour and the experiences of a six-year-old girl, Scout who watches her father defending a black man in the courtroom in the 30s. It is one of the best novels one could ever write.

2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 

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A young sailor from Marseilles, Edmond is set to become captain of own ship and to marry his love of life. However, his enemies provoke his arrest and lifelong imprisonment, until he intends to escape in search of hidden treasure.

3. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

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The character named, Holden Caulfield narrates his story from the previous Christmas, when he was kicked out of his school to learn about his life and his attempt to make sense of himself and the events that have shaped him.

4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is a British classic and one of the most loved books among the avid readers.  The books details about the social mored of 19th century England, Austen crafts a novel that is amusing, timeless and utterly beautiful.

If you haven’t read this book before, it’s high time to meet Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy yet now.

5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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This book is a New York Times bestseller. In his book, Nazi Germany and Liesel Meminger who are young girls steal for their survival. Liesel learns to read and in a habit of sharing the books stolen by her with her neighbours and the Jewish man who hides in her basement.

6. Dune by Frank Herbert

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You can almost feel like your mouth is getting dried with thirst as you start reading this book. Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides and his family who is having control of the desert planet, Arrakis which is the only source of the ‘spice’ melange, the most important and valuable substance in the cosmos. It is a great work of fiction.

7. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

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The Cold Comfort is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life during the 1930s. The book revolves around a character named, Flora Poste who is a city girl who comes to live with her strange relatives on a gloomy starkadders of cold comfort farm and her reluctant efforts to bring her family up to date equipped with modern living.