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MILAN — With “Donatella’s Hit Picks” and an offer to personalize looks, the house of Versace introduced this week its online flagship store, versace.com.
LONDON — For once, Fabio Quagliarella might have been grateful not to finish a complete game. His number was called 10 minutes from the end of Juventus’s 2-0 victory over Chievo Verona on Saturday, but as he walked toward the substitutes’ bench, the home crowd began singing his name. His first name anyway, because Quagliarella is quite a mouthful even for Italians.
MILAN — With a balcony lined with trailing ivy and upstanding cacti and the runway filled with references to colorful Sicilian markets, the Dolce & Gabbana show on Sunday was never going to be in the minimalist mode.
MILAN — How to give minimalism maximum impact is once again the focus of fashion. The art movement that dominated the 20th century is looking for ways to have an impact on the new millennium, now that its founding features like a fascination with mechanics have been challenged.
U.S. actress Sharon Stone bounced back from a hospital admission at Milan fashion week to chair a star-studded fundraising gala on Saturday.
Stone, 55, was admitted to hospital with a migraine after attending a runway show by Italian fashion house Fendi on Friday, raising questions over whether she could chair the Saturday AIDS research fundraiser as planned.
MILAN: As Italy's top fashion brands hit the catwalks in Milan this week, the country's young designers are finding other ways to show off their collections in a bid to break into in an increasingly challenging market.
The Huffington Post is almost set to unveil its latest international edition — this time, in Italy.
L'Huffington Post is due to launch early Tuesday in Rome. It will be the Huffington Post Media Group's sixth global site, joining the editions in Canada and Quebec, France, Spain and the United Kingdom.
ROME — Maria Adele Carrai has two master’s degrees from Italian universities in economics and Asian languages and is now earning her Ph.D. in international law in Hong Kong. Her linguistic credentials are formidable: Besides native Italian, she has nearly flawless English, a rarity in Italy, as well as French, Arabic, Japanese and Mandarin.
An Italian man was arrested at an airport in Turin, Italy, for allegedly impersonating a pilot and convincing a crew to let him fly inside the cockpit aboard a flight from Munich, Germany, to Turin, Al-Jazeera reports.
New York City Ballet’s gala on Thursday night managed to do disservices to both ballet and fashion. Three dances were presented with new costumes by the fashion designer Valentino, as was a world premiere; a Balanchine ballet was performed with its three lead roles redistributed among eight dancers; and Valentino was honored in film and, finally, onstage.