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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...
...round of the U.S. open in New York City, Pete Sampras was steamrolling Spain's Albert Portas. A dozen or so rows behind the court, Rino Tommasi was pondering the merits of mixed doubles. "It's pointless," he said. "I wish they would abolish it." Seated next to him, Gianni Clerici disagreed: "Mixed doubles has helped to grow the sport." Tommasi laughed. "Yeah, but only when the man and the woman got together after the match and conceived a tennis-playing baby...
...mild that day. On a scorching afternoon at the U.S. Open in 1996, the Tele+ booth was infernally hot. Clerici asked the attendants for an electric fan. When his request went unfulfilled, he simply stripped and called the match nude. Though viewers weren't treated to the full Gianni, "Quite a few people stopped by the booth that day," says Tommasi...
...Gianni Agnelli, patriarch of the family that controls automaker Fiat, is the closest thing Italy has to a king. The press hangs on his every pronouncement, whether it's about politics, soccer or business. When a paparazzo is lucky enough to catch him jumping off a yacht in his birthday suit, as one once did, well, that's news too. When Agnelli needs to tell the Prime Minister something, the P.M., whoever he may be, listens intently. But if Agnelli is the king, then the crown prince is Marco Tronchetti Provera, 53, chairman of Pirelli, the $4.5 billion tire...
...snap up companies that actually have to compete. This is where Fiat stepped in. It has forged an alliance with EDF, financier Romain Zaleski and several banks. The consortium, called Italenergia, now controls 52% of the voting shares of Montedison. Initially, the new Berlusconi government, which owes Fiat patriarch Gianni Agnelli some thanks for his quiet but crucial support, indicated it was "neutral" on the deal. Last week, however, Italian lawmakers put forward a bill to reduce Italenergia's control to 44%. Italenergia quickly decided to water down EDF's voting rights in the alliance, apparently neutralizing concerns about French...