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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...better explain his choice. "You know why I really like this place?" he says, lowering his voice and widening his eyes. "Because it's fast." Those are the words of a young man on the move. It's been nine years since he was handpicked by his grandfather, Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, to be next in line to take the reins of the family's automotive and financial empire. And while Fiat's fortunes have rollercoastered, Elkann has been methodically groomed into what many hope will be one of Europe's top business leaders for decades to come. Guiding an entrenched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...should do what you like doing in life. He believed in people developing the capabilities they're most suited for." In the Agnelli bloodline, that often means entrepreneurialism. Fiat was founded in 1899 by Giovanni Agnelli, a wealthy Turinese landowner, who imported Henry Ford's assembly line. He chose Gianni, his grandson, as his business heir after Gianni's father was killed in a 1935 plane accident, just as Gianni would later anoint Elkann. With his aquiline features and elegant but easygoing manner, Elkann certainly evokes his grandpa, among the 20th century's most admired business leaders and the epitome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...contemporary group piece, lacked basic unison for almost its full duration. This disunity coupled with a distracting costume choice—silky, over-sized men’s shirts—diverted attention from a unique and difficult choreography by Boston Ballet’s Gianni DiMarco. Choreographed to the music “Recycled Air” by the Postal Service, the second piece was a disappointing classical pas de deux. Dancers Pilar A. Ochi ’08 and Keller were hardly able to demonstrate their adept skills, in part, limited by the choreography of Lila K. Gollogly...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Pointe/Counterpointe’ Impresses in Second Half | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

BACK IN 1992, when the rest of the fashion flock was celebrating the late 1980s boom by buying yachts, or homes in Capri and Monte Carlo, Gianni Versace began restoring a rundown building on what was then considered the wrong side of the tracks of long-since-faded Miami Beach. Thus began the designer's love affair with the city's vibrant colors and Art Deco architecture. His spring collection that year was filled with boldly colored silk prints inspired by Miami?a look that would become the designer's trademark, covering everything from clothing to couches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viva Versace | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...Gianni's collections there is boldness, modernity and above all glamour?all qualities that seem rare in these last, more subdued years of fashion," says Donatella Versace, by way of explaining the current fascination with Versace. "Gianni's creations have always aimed at glorifying the body. This is why they're still so appealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viva Versace | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

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