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...that Del Vecchio first got to know Brooks. Growing up near Cortina, he worked summers in the tool department of his father's eyeglass factory???a business that eventually grew into the market-leading Luxottica Group and made the family one of the richest in Italy. Though far from the U.S., Del Vecchio and his compatriots knew to revere Brooks Brothers, thanks to Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli and the legendary trips he took to New York City to load up on his favorite button-down shirts...
...photographs of Chinese factory??workers were devastating. I immediately thought of Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis, in which industry dehumanizes people, turning them into factory robots...
GOURMET'S DIARY OF A FOODIE PBS, CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS Like a Cheesecake Factory??menu, this series strives to offer a bit of everything: it's a cooking show, a travelogue, a history and anthropology show. Each episode hopscotches to a new country, visiting restaurants and homes, chatting up average people and experts on food's role in the culture. A segment on international ingredients with Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl is a little elementary-- to viewers raised on the Food Network, oyster sauce is no longer exotic--but the show is a fast, info-packed study in how the world...
...industry's proverbial Oz-like curtains to learn the tricks of the trade?how a $10,000 French handbag is stitched or where Brazilian gemstones are mined. But at Swarovski crystals in Wattens, Austria, a town of 8,000 about 20 minutes northeast of Innsbruck by car, the factory???and all the technical knowhow stashed inside?is strictly off limits...
...Secret Is Your Brother.") While Diego will make headlines sparring in the press with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi or hobnobbing with high-profile friends like Ferrari CEO Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Andrea is content to talk soccer scores and sneaker styles with production managers back at the factory???many of whom have known him since...