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By Derek Blasberg   What constitutes a casual weekday lunch for fashion executive Giancarlo Giammetti would qualify as an elaborate affair for anyone else: served by his butler at a table set with sterling-silver flatware and a starched white linen tablecloth on the terrace of his apartment overlooking Rome's Spanish Steps.   But for...

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MIT's Media Lab put up a one-of-a-kind fashion show in October. The runway competition Descience Fashion Show combined the creativity of designers with the vision of molecular biologists, neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, climatologists and scientists from a variety of disciplines. This year saw two Italians among the finalists. Italian bioma...

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Giorgio Armani ha sempre avuto la passione delle case, per gli immobili in generale. Ne ha molti, e costantemente ha voluto che fossero mantenuti nel modo giusto. Decorosi, ordinati, valorizzati. Ora che quest'anno si appresta a celebrare i 40 anni di età della casa di moda che porta il suo nome, la passione del mattone ha finito per intrecciarsi...

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On their visit to New York in December, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, the creative directors of Valentino, were contemplating American women.   "There's something effortless in your women," Piccioli says. "To go outside with the coffee and the handbag...They feel confident and they express themselves. They don't need to be work...

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The shooting for a film on Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace's life will begin in December.Directed by Bille August, it will star Antonio Banderas. "We will be shooting in Milan, Reggio Calabria and Miami, where he lived. There will be other stars in the cast but at the moment I cannot say anything else," the Danish director said at the Ischi...

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An environmentally neutral alternative to leather, created as a result of an innovative laser technology that turns wood into fabric. Ligneah is produced through a patented process, and will be launched in the market by Marcello Antonelli and his daughter Marta.   The fabric, soft and supple to the touch and sight, seems like fine leather, y...

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Tenacity; obstinacy, almost. And a touch of luck. That's how Carlo Traglio, Vhernier President and CEO, managed to realize his dream of opening a store in New York, the third one in the US for the jewelry brand headquartered in Valenza, capital of the Piedmontese jewel district.   It's a "turning point" in the brand's growth in the vast Amer...

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Italian luxury fragrance brand, Acqua di Parma, have announced its first boutique in the USA. The store opened last month in Miami's Brickell City Centre. "We selected Miami as our first city due to its international recognition in art, design and culture which are values that define the essence of Acqua di Parma," said Giovanni Lepori, Presid...

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ROMA, 02 NOV -Bottega Veneta will bring its world even closer to home, literally, unveiling its latest retail concept early next year on Melrose Place in Los Angeles, www.WWD.com has learned.The PPR-owned company, which already has gender-specific, furniture-only and leather-goods-focused boutiques among its 180 stores worldwide, will add a home-fo...

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by Kiki Georgiou   MaxMara's camel cashmere double-breasted 101801 coat is a classic. Marcel Breuer's 1966 design for the now-old Whitney Museum of American Art on the Upper East Side's 75th street is a classic, too, in a different medium – one in which the new downtown Whitney, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, is currently joc...

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