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...Benetton EDIZIONE HOLDING...
...tale of the four Benetton siblings--Luciano, Giuliana, Gilberto and Carlo--who launched their clothing empire by knitting sweaters at the kitchen table at night, has become legendary in Italy; they currently rank among Europe's wealthiest families. Color was the key to their success. Luciano, 67, the eldest, has said he couldn't bear to see young women in the 1960s dressing like their mothers and young men still decked out in gray. The bright, cheerful knitwear they produced was a hit in Italy, and soon they were exporting around the world, their products increasingly accompanied by provocative...
...tennis player ANNA KOURNIKOVA. They must have overlooked the woman's face, as it is clearly not Kournikova's. The tennis star pointed this out to the magazine on learning of the photos' existence, but Penthouse seemed unmoved by her denials--and threat of legal action--until Judith Soltesz-Benetton, married to a member of the Benetton-clothing family, claimed the pictures are of her, shot without her knowledge seven years ago. Now she is suing for $10 million, which could put the struggling magazine out of business. The Penthouse editors issued a "heartfelt" apology, proving it is possible...
That Jones and Roy are a couple reflects partly the fact that their peer group and pop culture have long sent the message, whether through movies like Save the Last Dance or ad campaigns like Benetton's, that interracial dating is cool. "In adolescent life and culture, kids hang out together in all different kinds of groups. It's what's accepted, what one sees on TV, in the movies, in tons of advertising," says Ron Taffel, author of The Second Family: How Adolescent Power Is Challenging the American Family. "Now when kids date interracially, they're not doing...
College recruitment brochures typically look like Benetton ads. Come to our school, they seem to proclaim, and you'll learn as much from your multicolored classmates as you will from your professors. In most cases this is a fiction. Colleges tend to do a poor job of attracting minority students, and it's rare to see genuine interaction among different groups. If you were to visit Seattle Central Community College, however, you might just find a 40-year-old Hispanic mom designing computer software with a lanky, blond, 24-year-old snowboarder. Or maybe you will run into Gil Reynosa...