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Whereas most European luxury leather-goods brands rely on a prominently placed logo to indicate their products' provenance, Bottega Veneta has made its most coveted leather-crafting technique into its signature. Known as intrecciato?Italian for woven?the technique has been employed by Bottega Veneta since the company was founded by Michele Taddei and Renzo Zengiaro in the Veneto region of Italy in 1966. Originally thought of as a way to make the brand's thin, supple leather more durable, intrecciato has become a style statement in the hands of Bottega Veneta creative director Tomas Maier. And style icons like...
...pulled together in a very French-women-don't-dare-get-fat way. But in person, she has an easy manner and is even a bit tousled. In the tearoom of the Plaza Athenée, around the corner from YSL's headquarters, Hermann stands out among the rich European women wearing tight jeans and toting suitcase-size designer bags. Angular and petite, she arrives carrying a miniversion of the patent-leather Downtown bag and unravels herself from an Army green trench coat to reveal a black-and-white checked dirndl skirt and sky-high sandals. Hermann confesses that she often...
...difference between "bridal fashion" and "fashion fashion" comes up frequently. "I always say we're not a bridal house. We're a fashion house that does bridal. There's a very big difference," says Wang, who is one of the few American designers to have a full-fledged, European-style atelier, complete with working sample room and U.S.-based factories. If Wang's version of bridal involved all the thought, handiwork and talent of high fashion, it had none of the spotlight. It was as if Wang were designing on another planet. Her coping mechanism: "I took out my fashion...
...general, affluent consumers in Russia have the greatest top-of-mind awareness of foreign luxury brands compared with China and India because the Russian luxury market is more developed and more European in nature...
...There are some foreigners in the village, but they are welcome, says Grin, because they are from the countries of the western European Union, "so cultural integration is not a problem." But, he warns, "when it comes to foreign criminals, it's clear they don't belong here. If these people compromise our security, then yes, they should be expelled...