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...page from Italian Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari's "Libro de' Disegni"--purchased last summer by New York real estate developer fan Woodner--headlines a group of Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, which opened last weekend at the Fogg...
...wristwatches have been often on view in period movies like Chinatown and Chariots of Fire. They also show up with some regularity in fashion layouts of Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The oldtimers first started to become salable, however, with the late '70s interest in retro clothes and in reaction to the flood of maddeningly accurate quartz and digital models available at the local pharmacy. "You can get a wafer-thin watch that keeps perfect time for $20 at a dime store," scoffs Sig Shonholtz, who runs the Second Time Around Watch Co. in Los Angeles. "So what...
...brimming with ideas; others are friends of long standing; none is over 32. Gaultier may be an iconoclast, but he has a deep and sometimes surprising respect for other designers. One would expect him to "adore" Vivienne Westwood, the earth mother of punk fashion. But Gaultier also "adores" Giorgio Armani and Jean Muir, and speaks with respect of the old master Yves Saint Laurent. He spends about 85% of his time working, and rides the Metro both to commute and to store up ideas...
...models breezing down Giorgio Armani's glass-topped runway were having too much fun to put on the mannequin's usual mask of boredom. It was a celestial fashion parade: zephyr-light chiffon shorts worn with a billowing shirt and slightly askew man's tie; immaculately tailored jackets with saucy miniskirts; poolside playsuits that looked as if they might evaporate at any moment. The international crowd of buyers and press applauded throughout the show, the highlight of last week's spring collections in Milan, and at the end stood to cheer the creator of all these...
...bank and allegedly siphoned off $15 million from it. In Italy, Sindona faces fraud charges resulting from the 1974 failure of his Banca Privata Italiana, part of a financial empire once estimated to be worth $450 million. He has also been accused of ordering the 1 979 murder of Giorgio Ambrosoli, a lawyer appointed to liquidate Banca Privata Italiana. Even if Sindona is convicted in Italy, he must return to the U.S. and complete his prison term before serving time in his home country...