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Il 15 e 16 novembre 2012 si terranno rispettivamente a San Francisco e a Palo Alto due eventi di promozione della moda Made in Italy, previsti nell'ambito del Programma di Promozione ICE.Location degli eventi saranno i due negozi Wilkes Bashford di proprietà della famiglia di dettaglianti Mitchell.Wilkes Bashford è stato il primo dettagliante ad in...

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It's showtime for Gucci at Bloomingdale's 59th Street. As reported in wwd, from June 6 to 9, seven Gucci artisans will be at the Bloomingdale's flagship assembling handbags, personalizing silk scarves and monogramming leather bags.   Gucci's "artisan corner," said Francine Klein, Bloomingdale's executive vice president and general merchandis...

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Italian architect and designer Cristina Celestino has created a sumptuous traveling dressing room for luxury fashion house Fendi that very well could be a summary of some of this year's best design trends.   The Milan-based Celestino, whom Wallpaper hails a "singular rising star," works as an architect, creative director, and designer throug...

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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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