In 1997, the Britain based Odinic Rite ( OR ) founded a US chapter ( ORV ).

In New York, the New Normannii Reik of Theodish Belief was founded in 1997 and is led by Dan Halloran, but in 2009 many members split off and formed the Arfstoll Church of Theodish Belief, White Marsh Theod, and Álfröðull þjóð.

The Pakistan Cave Research & Caving Federation was founded in Pakistan in 1997.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

Petr Mach, an economist, a close associate of president Václav Klaus and a member of the Civic Democratic Party between 1997 and 2007, founded the Free Citizens Party in 2009.

In 1997, Coppola founded Zoetrope: All-Story, a literary magazine devoted to short stories and design.

The Air Wing of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces was founded in 1987, had a base at the airport in Nausori, but was abolished in 1997.

Scott Kurowski wrote the Internet PrimeNet Server that supports the research to demonstrate Entropia-distributed computing software, a company he founded in 1997.

In 1997 the Fundación Isaac Albéniz was founded in his name to promote Spanish music and musicians and to act as a research centre for Albéniz and Spanish music in general.

Spacey played an egomaniacal district attorney in A Time to Kill ( 1996 ), and founded Trigger Street Productions in 1997, with the purpose of producing and developing entertainment across various media.

In order to make money for his newly founded company, he made The Kingdom ( Riget, 1994 ) and The Kingdom II ( Riget II, 1997 ), a pair of miniseries recorded in the Danish national hospital, the name " Riget " being a colloquial name for the hospital known as Rigshospitalet ( lit.

* Convergence Party ( Convergencia, CV ), founded in 1997 ;

Raël founded Clonaid ( originally Valiant Venture Ltd Corporation ) in 1997, but then handed it over to a Raëlian bishop, Brigitte Boisselier in 2000.

In 1997 Brennan founded the " Cheap & Cheerful Chip Company " which later went on to become Global Silicon Limited

In 1970, the Vindolanda Trust, a registered charity, was founded to administer the site and its museum, and in 1997, the Trust took over the running of the Roman Army Museum at Carvoran, another Hadrian's Wall fort, which it had acquired in 1972.

JGI was founded in 1997 to unite the expertise and resources in genome mapping, DNA sequencing, technology development, and information sciences pioneered at the three genome centers at University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBNL ), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), and LANL.

* The Chicago Fire, a Major League Soccer team, was founded on October 8, 1997, the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.

The station was founded in Dover as Neptune Radio in September 1997 but moved to Folkestone in 2003 and was consequently rebranded after a takeover by the KM Group.

The Yitzhak Rabin Centre was founded in 1997 by an act of the Knesset, to create " Memorial Centre for Perpetuating the Memory of Yitzhak Rabin.

It was founded in 1997 by the University of Pavia, the Borromeo College and the Ghislieri College, supported by the Italian Minister of Education.

The old city of Porvoo was formally disestablished and the new city of Porvoo founded in 1997 when the city of Porvoo and the Rural municipality of Porvoo were consolidated.

Twenty one Roma political organizations were founded between 1997 and 2003 in Bulgaria.

* Berkeley Systems in Berkeley, California, founded in 1987, acquired in 1997, closed 2000.

It was founded in 1997 under the name the Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company ( AVESCO ).

In 1997, she headed the congressional committee that was responsible for compensating lumber workers laid off because Headwaters Forest Reserve was founded.

Lucire () is a fashion magazine that originally began on the web in 1997, branching into a monthly print edition in its home country of New Zealand in 2004.

* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer ( d. 1997 )

* December 2 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer ( d. 1997 )

* Gianni Versace ( 1946 – 1997 ), fashion designer

Poppet ( 1912 – 1997 ), John's daughter by his second wife, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol ( 1905 – 1988 ) whose daughter Talitha ( 1940 – 1971 ), a fashion icon of 1960s London, married John Paul Getty, was famously photographed in Marrakesh by Patrick Lichfield, and, after a brief hedonistic life, died of a drug overdose.

In 1948, Niven met Hjördis Paulina Tersmeden ( née Genberg, 1919 – 1997 ), a divorced Swedish fashion model.

( aka Biggie Smalls ), was murdered in a similar fashion in March 1997, speculation arose that Knight was involved and that B. I. G.

Andrew Phillip Cunanan ( August 31, 1969 – July 23, 1997 ) was an American spree killer who murdered at least five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, during a three-month period in 1997, ending with his own suicide, at age 27.

On July 15, 1997, Cunanan murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace.

* 1997 Christopher Bradley-Hole's Latin Garden, the first garden at Chelsea to exhibit the new fashion for sparse planting

Gianni Versace (; December 2, 1946 – July 15, 1997 ) was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Gianni Versace S. p. A., an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, makeup and home furnishings as well as clothes.

Mr Miyake " oversees the overall direction of all lines created by his company ", even though the individual collections have been designed by his staff since his ' retirement ' from the fashion world in 1997.

* 1997 – 1999: s. Oliver ( fashion )

The first design concept was called 21st Century Lifestyle and the collection was showcased in New York during the Fashion Week Fall Winter 1997 Season, featuring men ’ s fashion and golf clothing.

In 1997, Loughlin married fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, the creator of the Mossimo clothing line.

The movie Baunsu ko gaurusu ( Bounce Kogal ) ( 1997 ) by Masato Harada depicts kogals prostituting themselves to buy trendy fashion accessories.

( 1997 – 2003 ) as Jack Gallo, the eccentric publisher of a New York fashion magazine.

In 1997, it partnered with the band Blink-182 to create Loserkids. com, an online store and community site for fans of the music and fashion of cutting-edge alt-rock, punk, metal and hard rock artists.

In his biography, the Italian fashion model Den Harrow says that in 1997 he moved to California to take part in the serial, but there are no proof of that.

In March 1997 McCartney was appointed Creative Director of Paris fashion house Chloé, following in the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld.

Federal Walk was gradually implemented in piecemeal fashion over the next 15 years, although it still remained incomplete as of 1997.

In 1997, Bruni quit the world of fashion to devote herself to music.