Word: gianni
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...children and eventually business partner happened, she says, "slowly, slowly." Between 1977 and 1994, Cavalli's fashion business had become lackluster. After making a name for himself in the 1970s with miniskirts and maxicoats worn by stars like Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren, he found himself overshadowed by Gianni Versace in the 1980s and undone by the minimalist trend of the early 1990s. "I was thinking maybe to stop," says Cavalli, who was born and studied art in Florence. "But then Eva became interested so I started - for her - to involve myself again." The timing couldn't have been better...
...fundamentally launched the country's economic growth." But even Agnelli's flash could not sustain a company that has been long on passion and short on the nuts-and-bolts fundamentals that determine success in today's highly competitive global car market. Although Agnelli, known to friends as "Gianni," was once the ultimate decision maker at the Turin conglomerate, his power, like his health, had waned as Fiat was battered by crises in the boardroom and in the market. In fact, control of Fiat had already shifted to his younger brother Umberto, a handover that was scheduled to be formalized...
...news cameras, and she helped keep tabs on other big-time mafiosi in New York City. In the '90s she won an FBI award for her work on the Andrew Cunanan case, a shooting rampage that started with two deaths in Minnesota and ended with the death of Gianni Versace in Miami. When Minneapolis agents nabbed longtime Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Kathleen Soliah, Rowley handled questions from the press...
LONDON at a Gianni Versace retrospective in a museum with Madonna, below...
Three dresses dominate the entrance to the new Gianni Versace show at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. From a design standpoint, the dresses are barely notable: each is a simple column embellished with beading or gold studs or safety pins. The dresses have pride of place not because of their significance as fashion, but because of the celebrity of those who wore them - Elizabeth Hurley, Princess Diana and Naomi Campbell. To underscore that point, giant portraits of Hurley in the safety-pin dress she made famous and Diana in a powder-blue beaded sheath flank the entrance. The show...