This page will contain news stories about Juicy Couture, as they become available.Juicy CoutureThe Juicy Couture CrestJuicy Couture is a stylish contemporary line of casual apparel based in Pacoima, California. Juicy is very well-known for their terry, velour, cashmere, and fleece tracksuits, which have been made famous by the many celebrities who wear them. The line is sold in upscale department stores and specialty stores, such as Neiman Marcus, Nordstroms, Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bergdorf Goodman. Entertaining slogans often adorn Juicy apparel, such as "Wake up and smell the Couture" and "Dude, Where's my Couture?". The signature Juicy Crest, as well as the phrases "Love, P&G" are stitched on the inside tag of each item of Juicy apparel. HistoryThe company was co-founded in 1994 by Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash as Travis Jeans Inc., a line of maternity jeans named for Nash's son. The brand was originally popular on the West Coast of the United States, when their fashion lines focused on comfortable women's sweat suits and sportswear. Nash became Gela Nash-Taylor in March, 1999 when she married bassist John Taylor of Duran Duran. Taylor and Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon performed at a party launching the line's East Coast debut in New York City in November, 1999. Juicy Couture added collections for men and children in 2002, and bathing suits and accessories for women, including shoes, handbags and jewelry (including very popular charm bracelets) were added to Juicy's line in 2004. In 2003 Travis Jeans Inc, which owned all of Juicy assets, was purchased by Liz Claiborne Inc. for US$53 million, plus a percentage of future earnings. Skaist-Levy and Nash-Taylor remained co-presidents of the company, and remain the creative minds behind Juicy Couture. A flagship store was opened in Las Vegas in October 2004. Five more stores were planned as of 2005 in Boston, Manhattan, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Scottsdale. In 2005, Juicy licensed their name to T-Mobile for a designer version of their Sidekick II smartphone, and to Movado for a line of Juicy watches. References
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In 2005, Juicy licensed their name to T-Mobile for a designer version of their Sidekick II smartphone, and to Movado for a line of Juicy watches. Some other eras were in official use in modern times or are still in use in several countries alongside the current international Anno Domini era. Five more stores were planned as of 2005 in Boston, Manhattan, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Scottsdale. Even though Anno Domini was in widespread use by the ninth century, Before Christ (or its equivalent) did not become widespread until the late fifteenth century. A flagship store was opened in Las Vegas in October 2004. Another system was to date from the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which as early as Hippolytus and Tertullian was believed to have occurred in the consulate of the Gemini (AD 29), which appears in the occasional medieval manuscript. Skaist-Levy and Nash-Taylor remained co-presidents of the company, and remain the creative minds behind Juicy Couture. The Era of Martyrs, which numbered years from the accession of Diocletian in 284, who launched the last yet most severe persecution of Christians, prevailed in the East and is still used officially by the Coptic and used to be used by the Ethiopian church. for US$53 million, plus a percentage of future earnings. Outside the Carolingian Empire, Spain continued to date by the Era of the Caesars, or Spanish Era, well into the Middle Ages, which counted beginning with 38 BC. In 2003 Travis Jeans Inc, which owned all of Juicy assets, was purchased by Liz Claiborne Inc. This endorsement by Charlemagne and his successors popularizing the usage of the epoch and spreading it throughout the Carolingian Empire ultimately lies at the core of the system's prevalence until present times. Juicy Couture added collections for men and children in 2002, and bathing suits and accessories for women, including shoes, handbags and jewelry (including very popular charm bracelets) were added to Juicy's line in 2004. On the continent of Europe, Anno Domini was introduced as the era of choice of the Carolingian Renaissance by Alcuin. Taylor and Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon performed at a party launching the line's East Coast debut in New York City in November, 1999. Both Dionysius and Bede regarded Anno Domini as beginning at the incarnation, or conception, of Jesus, not his birth approximately nine months later (Annunciation style). Nash became Gela Nash-Taylor in March, 1999 when she married bassist John Taylor of Duran Duran. In this same history, he was the first to use the Latin equivalent of before Christ and established the standard for historians of no year zero, even though he used zero in his computus. The brand was originally popular on the West Coast of the United States, when their fashion lines focused on comfortable women's sweat suits and sportswear. A few generations later, the Anglo-Saxon historian Bede, who was familiar with the work of Dionysius, also used Anno Domini dating in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, finished in 731. The company was co-founded in 1994 by Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash as Travis Jeans Inc., a line of maternity jeans named for Nash's son. The first historian or chronicler to use Anno Domini as his primary dating mechanism was Victor of Tonnenna, an African chronicler of the seventh century. The signature Juicy Crest, as well as the phrases "Love, P&G" are stitched on the inside tag of each item of Juicy apparel. The latest bound for the birth of Christ is the death of Herod the Great which occurred in 4 BC according to Kepler. Entertaining slogans often adorn Juicy apparel, such as "Wake up and smell the Couture" and "Dude, Where's my Couture?". Almost all Biblical scholars believe that Dionysius was incorrect in his calculation, and that the date claimed for Jesus' birth was between 8 BC and 4 BC. The line is sold in upscale department stores and specialty stores, such as Neiman Marcus, Nordstroms, Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bergdorf Goodman. Another formulation, dominant in the East during the early centuries of the Byzantine Empire, was developed by the Alexandrian monk Anninus. Juicy is very well-known for their terry, velour, cashmere, and fleece tracksuits, which have been made famous by the many celebrities who wear them. The Latin translator Jerome helped popularize Eusebius's AM count in the West. Juicy Couture is a stylish contemporary line of casual apparel based in Pacoima, California. One popular formulation was that established by Eusebius of Caesarea, a historian at the time of Constantine I. March 28, 2005. No single Anno Mundi epoch was dominant. "To Live and Thrive in L.A.", Business Week. These eras, sometimes called Anno Mundi, "year of the world" (abbreviated AM), by modern scholars, had their own disagreements. Juicy Couture official site. Byzantine chroniclers like Theophanes continued to date each year in their world chronicles on a different Judaeo-Christian basis — from the notional creation of the World as calculated by Christian scholars in the first five centuries of the Christian era. The Anno Domini system was developed by a Scythian monk named Dionysius Exiguus in Rome in 525, as an outcome of his work on calculating the date of Easter. The papacy was in regular contact throughout the Middle Ages with envoys of the Byzantine world, and had a clear idea — sudden deaths and deposals notwithstanding — of who was the Byzantine emperor at any one time. The last consul nominated was Anicius Faustus Albinus Basilius in 541. Use of consular dating ended when the emperor Justinian I discontinued appointing consuls in the mid sixth century, shortly after he required that the use of imperial regnal dating. Early Christians designated the year via a combination of consular dating, imperial regnal year dating, and Creation dating. In 1422, Portugal became the last country of western Europe to adopt the Anno Domini era). The most important of these include the Seleucid era (in use until the eighth century), and the Spanish era (in use in official documents in Aragon, Valencia, and in Castile, into the fourteenth century. The beginning of the numbered year also varied from place to place, and was not largely standardized in Europe (except England) as January 1 until the sixteenth century. A great many local systems or eras were also important, for example the year from the foundation of one particular city, the regnal year of the neighboring Persian emperor, and eventually even the year of the reigning Caliph. This system was used in Gaul, in Egypt until the Islamic conquest, and in the Eastern Roman Empire until its conquest in 1453. Documents and events began to be dated by the year of the cycle (e.g., "fifth indiction", "tenth indiction") in the fourth century, and was used long after the tax was no longer collected. Another common system was to use the indiction cycle (15 indictions made up an agricultural tax cycle, an indiction being a year in duration). His successors followed his practice until the memory of the Roman Republic faded (late in the second century or early in the third century), when they openly began to use their regnal year. At first, Augustus would indicate the year of his rule by counting how many times he had held the office of consul, and how many times the Roman Senate had granted him Tribunican powers, carefully observing the fiction that his powers came from these offices granted to him, rather than from his own person or the many legions under his control. Another system that is less commonly found than thought was to use the regnal year of the Roman emperor. Pope Boniface IV (about AD 600) may have been the first to use both the ab urbe condita era and the Anno Domini era (he put AD 607 = AUC 1360). About AD 400 the Iberian historian Orosius used the ab urbe condita era. Modern historians usually adopt the epoch of Varro, which we place in 753 BC. Several epochs were in use by Roman historians. Another method of dating, rarely used, was to indicate the year ab urbe condita, or "from the foundation of the City" (abbreviated AUC), where "the City" meant Rome. Sometimes one or both consuls might not be appointed until November or December of the previous year, and news of the appointment may not have reached parts of the Roman empire for several months into the current year; thus we find the occasional inscription where the year is defined as "after the consulate" of a pair of consuls. This involved naming both consulares ordinares who had been appointed to this office on January 1 of the civil year. The earliest and most common practice was Roman 'consular' dating. This redundancy allows historians to construct parallel regnal lists for many kingdoms and polities by comparing chronicles from different regions, which include the same rulers. Like the other inhabitants of the Roman Empire, early Christians used one of several methods to indicate a specific year — and it was not uncommon for more than one to be used in the same document. Anno Domini dating was not adopted in Western Europe until the eighth century. This article, however, is about the civil usage without a year zero. This results in a one-year shift between the two systems (eg −1 equals 2 BC). In keeping with 'standard decimal numbering', a negative sign '−' is added for earlier years, so counting down from year 2 would give 2, 1, 0, −1, −2, and so on. This is a problem with some calculations; so in astronomical year numbering a zero is added, and the 'AD' and 'BC' are dropped. Historians do not use a year zero — AD 1 is the first year or epoch of the Anno Domini era, and 1 BC immediately precedes it as the first year before the epoch. It is often used in a more elaborate form such as Anno Nostrae Salutis (in the year of our salvation), Anno Salutis Humanae (in the year of human well-being), Anno Reparatae Salutis (in the year of accomplished salvation). It can be explained in the context of Christian belief, where the birth of Jesus saved mankind from eternal damnation. Anno Salutis (often translated from Latin as in the year of salvation) is a dating style used up until the eighteenth century, which like Anno Domini dates years from the birth of Christ. do not presuppose faith in Christ and hence are more appropriate for interfaith dialog than the conventional B.C./A.D." When the People's Republic of China abolished the Republic of China era in 1949, it adopted Western years, calling that era gōngyuán, 公元, which literally means Common Era. .. For example, Cunningham and Starr (1998) write that "B.C.E./C.E. This term is often preferred by those who want to avoid the association with the Christian era. Anno Domini is sometimes referred to as the Common Era (CE) instead. . The English usage adheres to the traditional practice of placing the abbreviation before the year, as in Latin (e.g., 64 BC, but AD 2001). This Christian era is currently dominant all around the world in both commercial and scientific use. In Israel, the traditional Hebrew calendar, using an era dating from Creation, is in official use. This is one of the versions of the Buddhist calendar. This is the so-called Thai solar calendar or Thailand Buddhist Era clearly relied on the western solar calendar. 543. In 1941, the Prime Ministre Phibunsongkhram decided to count the years since B.C. In 1912 the New Year's Day was shifted to April 1. In Thailand in 1888 King Chulalongkorn decreed a National Thai Era since founding of Bangkok on 1782, April 6. Juche means "autarchy, self-reliance". The year 2004 was "Juche 93". North Korea uses a system that starts in 1912 (= Juche 1), the year of the birth of their founder Kim Il-Sung. It is still very common in Taiwan to date events via the Republic of China era, whose first year is 1912. The official Japanese system numbers years from the accession of the current emperor, regarding the calendar year during which the accession occurred as the first year. This era was abolished with the fall of fascism in Italy on July 25, 1943. (see French Revolutionary Calendar). The French Revolution seriously attempted to displace the Anno Domini system by instead dating from 22 September 1792 = 1 vendémiaire an I (an means year in French) of the First French Republic. |