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Bottega Veneta "The 1970s was the last time we saw logomania," says Tom Ford. "It was all about Gucci and Louis Vuitton and initials, initials, initials, and Gloria Vanderbilt jeans." Into this frenzied atmosphere Italian leather company Bottega Veneta was launched. Its smash hit was a bag of woven leather - a look inspired by woven baskets. There was no logo and the ads said it all: "When your own initials are enough." The first boutique opened in 1974 on Manhattan's Upper East Side. In 1980 when Lauren Hutton starred as a rich New York housewife in American Gigolo...
...heaving - packed with fashion editors cooing over stilettos, say, black with grommets or red with jewels. Few recognize the white-haired, 65-year-old man as their creator. The son of a cobbler, Rossi started the company some 40 years ago and sold it to Gucci in 1999. Tom Ford is designing new stores for the brand and has seen to its sexy ad campaign. At the Oscars, under Julia Roberts' vintage Valentino gown were a pair of Sergio Rossi shoes...
...Sunday morning, in River Lake Estates, former sheriff's deputy Patrick Cuffy stood in his front yard, talking to a friend, when a red truck drove up. So did a black Ford Excursion, then a grayish Taurus. Armed with assault-style semiautomatics, a posse of men leaped out. They rushed Cuffy and his friend, Dania Hewitt, who had a gun of his own. A loud argument was followed by seven seconds of rapid gunfire. Children playing nearby dived behind bushes as the men exchanged 59 shots. By the time it was over, one gunman was wounded and another fatally shot...
Emily Blue, 25, was driving home from dinner with friends several weeks ago when she decided to call a friend on her Sprint PCS portable cell phone. She was still dialing as she went through an intersection and plowed into a parked Ford Explorer, totaling her own Acura Integra. While suffering only a burnt lip after the air bag exploded in her face, Blue admits to being plenty embarrassed. "I know better than to dial and drive," she insists...
...says its OnStar-like Command feature is available hands-free. BMW has announced a customized, hands-free, digital version of Motorola's new TimePort. BMW plans to introduce iDrive, a console panel that will house Internet and e-mail software as well as hands-free phone service. In 2002 Ford hopes to install its own service, called Wingcast...