Word: ermanno
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...British development grant, the embroidery project started out small, but the quality of its product soon got the attention of the international fashion industry. Today, form-hugging jeans and sexy silk blouses embroidered by the traditional craftswomen of Siwa grace the catwalks of Milan for Italian designer Ermanno Scervino, while the brand name Siwa Creations sells in exclusive outlets in Turin, Florence, London, Paris and New York. "We wanted to make an authentic line that was wearable by a modern woman anywhere in the world," says Laila proudly...
...middle, the way coffee does when it is stirred in a cup. In perfect deference to the laws of physics, the metal's highly reflective surface takes the form of a parabola, the shape of solid mirrors used in conventional telescopes to focus starlight into a sharp image. Says Ermanno Borra, the Laval astrophysicist who built it: "It's a wonderfully simple arrangement...
...wind-tunnel testing and built of advanced composite materials, the sometimes secretly developed high-tech sleds enabled some teams to achieve a consistent advantage of a few crucial hundredths of a second. "If one person has a Ferrari and another has a Fiat, the Ferrari will win," says Ermanno Gardella, secretary of the International Bobsled Federation. "But if both have Volkswagens, the best driver will...
Alas, these minor revelations-and two marvelously vigorous films from old masters, Italy's Ermanno Olmi (Camminacammina) and Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Danton)-were not enough to keep businessmen and journalists from grousing, as they lolled for a fortnight in one of the world's lushest garden spots. Nor will a disappointing festival keep these congenital optimists from returning next year to this bunker on the Côte d'Azur. - By Richard Corliss
...colleagues have difficulty selling anything but their umpteenth La Bohème, Gaddes has found an audience for the new and the unusual. The current season is typical: the American premiere of Japanese Composer Minoru Miki's An Actor's Revenge, a double bill consisting of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Susanna and Frederick Delius' last opera, Fennimore and Gerda (also an American premiere), Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto, all sung in English...