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...highways and bad economy, Enrico Piaggio refocused the family company on the future transportation needs of the Italian masses. He built a prototype of a small motorcycle used by parachutists and known as the MP5, or ?Paperino? (Italian for Donald Duck). But Piaggio was not satisfied with the design, so he asked Corradino D'Ascanio, an aeronautical engineer who had designed one of the first modern helicopters, to overhaul it. D'Ascanio hated motorcycles and quickly transformed the MP5 into a revolutionary scooter based on airplane technology. The vehicle had a single steel chassis with a front fork modeled...
...WHEN DESIGNER Ivana Omazic, 32, decided to leave home in the former Yugoslavia to study fashion in Milan, it was a very emotional decision. ?The war made it very difficult to leave my family,? she says. But she had known since age 5 that clothes would be her career, so she went to study at the European Institute of Design in Milan. In 1998, Omazic landed a job working for Miuccia Prada, which is when she learned to marry high-tech fabrics with feminine shapes. After seven years at Prada, Omazic was named creative director of Céline...
FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER the death of Ken Scott at age 72, Italian silk mill Isa Seta is reviving his designs. An American who settled in Italy, ?the gardener of fashion? was famous for splashing wild-colored peonies, anemones and roses all over his prints. Milan insiders like Angela Missoni and Lawrence Steele have been collecting vintage Scott, and now the design duo Paolo Battaglia and Antonio Ponte has culled from the archives eight of Scott's iconic prints?from the '50s through the early '70s?to reinvent the label in a ready-to-wear collection focused on fitted, slim...
...cross-generational drop-in center. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, Dallas Brown takes a minibus to local schools and collects around a dozen younger teenagers who take part in a program called My Business Rules. The students learn about the world of work and do a team project to design a product and sell it. Craig Jenkins, a public servant who works with indigenous small businesses in northern N.S.W., explains to students the concept of business plans and what is needed to succeed. "The first 12 months is the most difficult for any business," says Jenkins, as the eager group...
...Parish House has a complex geometry that defies traditional housing-construction methods. Its design was made possible through computer modeling. The pair sliced up the house onscreen to shape each structural piece for its role, then extracted those pieces from the model and numbered them. With another program, the pieces are arranged on plywood sheets to maximize use of the wood. "We save a lot of waste that way," says Gauthier. And a lot of time. The boards can be cut locally and shipped to the site on two flatbed trucks. No railcars needed...