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...long black coats with feathers peeking out of hems and collars. All at once, they removed the coats to reveal striking evening dresses in fuchsia, pale pink and black-and-white embroidered to look like tweed, and classic tweed suits in dragée pastels embellished with jeweled chains. Giorgio Armani displayed a similar penchant for the somber and the serious with heavily beaded and embellished all-black evening gowns. This is only Armani's second couture season in Paris, but he has infiltrated the ranks with ease, bringing with him devoted fans including Tina Turner and Tom Hanks' wife...
...smooth cheeked. But when Clint Eastwood rode through those Italian westerns in the '60s, a meaner, more maverick kind of frontier hero was born, an amusingly amoral gunslinger whose standard equipment was a Colt Peacemaker, a cheroot, a sarape and a five-day stubble. In 1975 when Italian Designer Giorgio Armani started to show clothes that would turn menswear inside out, his models sported jackets of wrinkled linen and cheeks shadowed by whiskers. Says the designer in retrospect: "It evokes something tender, rather than a polished, sharp look." It took almost ten years for the look to travel from Milan...
...cuts made-to-order features for the yupscale market. The inspiration could in part be a White House incumbent, whose folksy nattiness is a considerable part of his charm, but men's clothing is a thriving business. Anyone who is skeptical about this should consult the Ralph Lauren or Giorgio Armani corporate balance sheets or visit the men's floor of any large department store on a Saturday afternoon...
When you've had enough of Rome's ancient ruins, Caravaggio paintings and Bernini buildings, drop into the De Chirico House-Museum for a bracing look at the life and work of a 20th century master. Giorgio de Chirico fused a classical eye with a disquieting imagination to create Metaphysical art-like the eerie Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (1914), which depicts the shadowy figure of a girl rolling a hoop into a piazza-and later breathed new life into the Baroque...
...some of the artist's best-known works. A guide ushers visitors into the living area, which has been left largely as it was during De Chirico's life and displays dozens of his works. "He lived in his own museum," notes Victoria Noel-Johnson, project coordinator for the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation...