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MOST FACTORIES ARE FAIRLY ANONYMOUS, but Roberto Cavalli's headquarters, which are 10 minutes from the Florence airport, instantly reflect the Italian designer's taste for vibrant prints. The minute visitors enter the reception area, they are assaulted by chairs and sofas covered in loud animal stripes and spots...
...prints as he is for his full-on approach: think giraffe spots on chiffon dresses, beaded psychedelic silk-satin shirts and rhinestone-studded jeans. Stars like Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Lopez and Lenny Kravitz cannot get enough of it. Valentino may be known as the chic one among Italian designers, but Cavalli is the playboy. Dressed in his uniform of jeans and black leather jacket, he's a rugged-looking 65-year-old with a healthy head of salt-and-pepper hair who has the former Miss Universe wife, the beautiful children, the Tuscan palazzo, the yacht, the Ferrari, the helicopter...
...Batali and the other Del Posto principals-legendary impresario of Italian cuisine Lidia Matticchio Bastianich (host of the PBS cooking shows that bear her name) and her son Joseph, Batali's longtime partner and a winemaker-had never attempted something quite so spectacular as Del Posto. They knew they needed media attention, and they allowed a Food Network crew to visit the building site repeatedly. According to the show that resulted-Mario, FULL BOIL which aired February 18-construction was delayed interminably because engineers trying to lay the restaurant's foundation dug themselves into the Hudson River. Water soaked...
...shoppers like E.ON, that leaves Britain "wide open," Van Brevoort says. Scottish Power - which already rebuffed a $19 billion bid from E.ON late last year - and British Gas owner Centrica could both come under the hammer. And after its plan for Suez "blew up in its face," as one Italian energy analyst sees it, Enel, too, may bid for assets in Britain. Is there a perfect number of players that would make the European energy market competitive? "There will be a small number of energy companies that play a Europe-wide role," suggested E.ON chief executive Wulf Bernotat - a view...
...Italian commission last week confirmed old theories that the Soviet Union was behind the assassination attempt on POPE JOHN PAUL...