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Stepping Out Fancy footwear with a high-tech tread. This page: Gianfranco Ferr?? sandal with Lucite heel www.gianfrancoferre.com...
...Sales increase at Gianfranco Ferr?? boutiques since the designer's death in June...
...HOLD A DEGREE in architecture, but Gianfranco Ferr??'s nickname, "the Architect of Fashion," was more a comment on his bold lines and structured, sophisticated designs. With his pronounced seams and modern white dress shirts, the influential Italian designer famously broke through the doors of French couture in 1989 when he became the rare foreign stylistic director for Christian Dior. (Of the flap he caused among traditionalists, he said, "Luckily my French wasn't that bad.") Ferr?? died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage a week before his 2008 spring-summer collection was to be unveiled in Milan...
...charcoal out of different tree branches every morning in an oxygen-controlled oven. At the Guggenheim in Bilbao, a prodigy named Josean Martínez Alija, 27, is winning accolades for dishes like roasted tomatoes stuffed with baby squid and candied cod in garlic oil. Most famously, there is Ferr??n Adrià of El Bulli, two hours north of Barcelona in the seaside town of Roses. A food alchemist, Adrià has inspired a generation of chefs with his scientific approach to cooking: rendering gelatins out of seaweed powder, combining flavors like salmon and coffee, using nitrous oxide gas to create sauces...
Several runways pointed toward Africa; Gianfranco Ferr?? showed an uncharacteristically wearable collection of animal prints. And in Milan, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, inspired by a recent trip to Botswana, presented one of their best collections in many seasons, with snakeskin coats and zebra-striped chiffon dresses. They're on a commercial roll; several days later, the company announced in its latest annual report double-digit growth in both profit and sales...