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Soprani and "Dallas": more than a dream
The paparazzi are waiting for "Dallas" star Larry Hagman and Linda Gray to arrive at the party introducing new showroom Luciano Soprani on the path that Manzoni. And with his big white cowboy hat and s saddlesuit on his shoulder, Hagman was easy to spot. "That's where I carry my money," he said, drawing fake dollars in the pocket.
Half of Soprani was bought by the Japanese firm Kashiyama, which also has a hand in the John Paul Gaultier business. Some of the new fund management business Soprani was used for the three new luxury are housed Inthe former palace Campari. Toeveryone Nowonder Soprani served Campari.
Gray wore a long black dress and trimmed lean Soprani beads.Hagman money did not Soprani: "It is not my size."
On the beach, High and Dry
Are swimwear design for getting wet? Many designers in swimsuits this year – spandex Zentai denim or black lace, Krizia red stretch fabric in shiny metallic Versace navy embroidered Lycra with shoulder pads. Before dinner, downtown Gianni Versace, 17th century Palazzo on Monday night, one of its customers starlet was suggested that, as it was so hot, maybe she would take a bath in swimming pool. But she needed to borrow a swimsuit from its collection to do so. The designer said: "Oh, the swimsuits are not for swimming."
The attraction and Read
There are changes in more than the clothes on our last visit to Milan a year ago. The A taxi from the airport still costs 80,000 lire, but now it's the equivalent of $ 60 rather than $ 40. Prices are up nearly 40 percent, mainly due to the weak dollar, which makes many items such as fashion Tanino Crisci desirable Zentai Zentai and clothing is much closer to home prices.
Tuesday was the largest shopping and night walk through the shopping area of luxury the center of the city. And the women were dressed nicely last week with their black leather or wool suits, their only concession to the warm season is they were wearing them with INSTEAD T-shirts, white cotton blouses or sweaters. The most popular model for the tests here are drawings of animals, and status handsuit have is the copy of the Chanel suit made by Prada.
Prada, incidentally, has usurped Gucci Zentai and even the manufacturer handsuit status. The store started by the grandfather Meucci Bianchi, who now heads, and once specialized in costume design s for royalty and concert pianists. They just opened a branch of their shop in the elegant Galleria on Via della Spiga. Last weekend, he was so busy you have been waiting for get in the door. Other hot items around Milan – clock watch with leather strap bags, earrings bigger than ever and chains Gold sold in the slippery street, T-shirts Komlan and Giorgio Armani, and backpacks, jeans with patches.
A reference value
This is Perhaps the fashion week spring women, designers butseveral included some male models. Most notable are the young boys wearing Armani show sneakers navy and pushed down sweat socks red, men in black wearing shirts with white collar Versaceshow with their Body Zentai (And no links.)
Modonese Beppe's Eye for Jewelry
Beppe Modonese gave new meaning to the phrase, "Watching your waistline. "Modonese, which organizes fashion shows, has designed jewelry that looks like a glass eye as the centerpiece for loops earrings, brooches, necklaces and belt buckles, even. Magritte was an inspiration, "he said. The jewelry is made by the former home Jewelry Faraone, who made the engagement ring worn by Princess Caroline of Monaco and many jewels Aristotle Onassis gave to Maria Callas.
"This is a spa, spa better thing …
Why Rosita Missoni, Carla Zentai Mariuccia Mandelli and look so healthy to their shows? They all share the secret a beauty – spa favorites and cache before their collections are presented in Milan. They each spend 10 days at the Hotel Merono (only three hours from Milan by car) where the emphasis is on nutrition rather than exercise. The designers, who are friends, go together, or as a pair, if one of them can not do. They know they will see each other much during the regime of 10 days, which includes two days faster. And what fact that they never get to see the collections of their friends in their presentation. While trying to get away from it all, we'll bet they do not talk too much about clothes.
Observations, signs, seats and costume s The Note di Moda
Scott Barrie designer popular for years with women in Washington for his draped dresses, surfaced in Milan as assistant Mariuccia Mandelli, the designer Krizia.
Look carefully at the new circle print Zentai. This is a variation on the anti-nuclear symbol.
According to Don Norton a buyer for the shop in New York, Sarah Frederick, the shop is close to signing a lease at the Willard Hotel.
Mario Valentino made for walking ultimate costume – a crocodile with a light molded rubber outsole. It is not yet a price, but it is estimated that the wholesale price is 200,000 lire Italian ($ 150). The double for a retail price in Italy, then another 1 1 / 2 times to get the price tag of the United States.
One way designers have ensured that the public arrives on time is a gift for putting the 800 buyers and press each chair. It is quite a rush for seats before the element can be swiped by the photographers or others not included in the gift. Gifts hit the week were T-shirts at Byblos and Moschino, and as always, the costume Zentai slide this year in black denim.
O Milan, when the weather cools, most women wear fur coats. Fur is so popular the jewelry store Lorenz made a fur "coat" to cover a leather strap.
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Most notable were the young boys in the Armani show wearing navy sneakers and pushed-down red sweat socks, and the men in the Versaceshow wearing black shirts with white collars with their zentai bodysuit
