![]() Several Hollywood celebrities began their careers as Lillian Vernon models including Jason Biggs, Monica Potter and Marla Maples. In October 2015 Lillian Vernon was purchased by Regent, a Beverly Hills-based private equity firm controlled by investor Michael Reinstein. The company has since changed hands a number of times including emerging from a bankruptcy process in 2008. After Fred and David Hochberg both declined to take over running their mother's company, Vernon sold it to ZelnickMedia in 2003, but retained the symbolic title of non-executive chairman. However, by the end of the 1990s, the company began to struggle to meet online needs, especially after the collapse of the Dot-com bubble. Responding to the increasingly important online market in the early 1990s, the Lillian Vernon Corporation opened a storefront on AOL in 1995 and followed with an online catalog and website. ![]() The Lillian Vernon Corporation, founded in 1965, went public in 1987, and was the first company to be founded by a woman to be publicly traded on the American Stock Exchange. ![]() In response to a catalog and shopping mall boom in the United States in the 1980s, the company produced a number of specialty catalogs in order to broaden its market, including ones targeted for children and homemakers. Produced monthly, the catalog was typically 120 pages and usually featured 750 items. The Lillian Vernon Catalog, which the company launched in 1956, became an iconic shopping resource for American women, much like its competitor, the Sears catalog. As a result of this success, the Vernon Specialties Company became focused on products for young women by advertising in magazines focused on that emergent market. Lillian Vernon was started by Lillian Menasche at the age of twenty-four, by placing advertisements in Seventeen magazine for personalized purses and belts. Founded in 1951 by Lillian Vernon ( a/k/a Lillian Menasche), out of her Mount Vernon, New York, apartment the business name is a combination of her first name and her hometown. Lillian Vernon Corporation is an American catalog merchant and online retailer that sells household, children's and fashion accessory products. You can find more of her work at Vernon (center) donates a refrigerated truck to Citymeals-on-Wheels She gets her inspiration from folklore, astronomy, mythology, and the occult. ![]() Coni Curi is an Argentinian artist and illustrator based in Buenos Aires. Begin by understanding the truths our own bodies tell us through such methods as psychic drawing and oneirology (the study of dreams), and then move on to telling fortunes from nature (including omens and augury), reading objects (pendulum divination and scrying), and revelations of the random (runes, the I Ching, casting dice).Ībout the Author Based in north London, Lilian Verner-Bonds is an internationally recognized clairvoyant, palmist, and healer, as well as an author, lecturer, and teacher. A guide to over 40 divination methods ranges from the familiar-astrology, palmistry, tarot-to the more unusual, including cephalomancy (skull reading) and tea-leaf reading. She explains the rich heritage associated with the art of divination and shows you how to interpret your own, and your friends', futures. Internationally known author and clairvoyant Lilian Verner-Bonds helps budding witches and new practitioners of magic tap into their intuition-and empower themselves. A guide to over 40 divination methods ranges from the familiar-astrology, palmistry, tarot-to the more unusual, including cephalomancy (skull reading) and tea-leaf reading.īook Synopsis Learn the art of divination and take your destiny into your own hands with this beginner's guide to fortune telling. About the Book Author and clairvoyant Lilian Verner-Bonds helps budding witches and practitioners of magic tap into their intuition-and empower themselves.
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