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...Helping translate that dream beyond Ramingining time - and the reason for the Rome clock at Vertigo Productions - is Italian producer Domenico Procacci. First brought together on De Heer's breakthrough Bad Boy Bubby (1993), "he and Domenico got on like a house on fire," recalls Currie. A darkly comic fable about an idiot savant's reintroduction to the world, which we see and hear through his ears and eyes, Bad Boy took out the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival and set in motion one of the film world's most unusual partnerships. Without Procacci's investment...
...Currie tells how, after The Tracker was shot, Procacci stayed on in Adelaide for Christmas, when he asked De Heer if he had any more scripts to shoot: "And Rolf said, 'No, but I can get you one in a week.' So he sent it to him, Domenico read it on the plane back to Italy, finished it by Singapore, and rang him up and said, 'We'll finance this, yes, no problem.' " That film was Alexandra's Project (2003), and it's hard to think of a more confronting Australian film. About a disgruntled wife who gets revenge...
Even after 20 years in business, Domenico Dolce (the shorter, bald one) and Stefano Gabbana (tall and angular) remain incredibly accessible. Although their company boasts wholesale revenues of more than $1 billion and both designers live in splendor in the same central Milan building, Stefano on the sixth floor, Domenico on the fifth?never mind the houses in Roquebrune, France, and in Stromboli and Portofino, Italy?Dolce and Gabbana live what they consider an ?approachable? life. Gabbana, 43, still rides around his native Milan on a Vespa (albeit a leopard-print one). And Dolce, 47, who hails from...
...There were two extremes,? Burstein remembers. ? There was tailoring and corsets and the sexy bits and then these marvelous full-skirted dresses, which I thought were so Neapolitan. We didn't know then that Domenico was Sicilian...
Although big luxury conglomerates have come calling, Dolce and Gabbana have never even considered selling out. They turned away suitors like LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, and Tom Ford and Domenico De Sole when they were running the Gucci Group. Maintaining total control of the business they founded has, Gabbana says, been essential for their creativity and way of working...