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Talk about sins of the father being visited upon the children. For the past two months, Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi has been in prison on charges that he drove the Italian dairy giant into a €14 billion hole with a complex web of fraud and deception. His daughter Francesca and son Stefano expressed shock at what their devoutly religious father was said to have done. Prosecutors painted a different family portrait last week when the two Tanzi children were arrested on charges of fraudulent bankruptcy and criminal association. Prosecutors contend that Calisto Tanzi's two oldest children, each with...
SINGAPORE Style-conscious gents are descending on the Ermenegildo Zegna Sport outlet in the heart of shopping haven Orchard Road for the Italian label's popular Portofino sailing shoes ($317), above...
...most rarefied and potent ranks of fashion, whether in dealmaking or designing, must have a certain serenity. A certain above-the-fray quality. And a flat-out disregard for what you think. Which brings us to Miuccia Prada. The rise of Mrs. Prada, as she is known to her Italian staff members, is a well-known tale--your basic story of a onetime communist and mime student from Milan who takes over her family's dusty luggage company and, with the help of her go-getting husband, turns it into a luxury conglomerate that in 2002 had revenues of about...
...Paris-based company in 1990, at the age of 26. Fashion's swiftly revolving door is showing no signs of slowing down, and neither is Saint Pierre. French luxury powerhouses like Christian Dior and Givenchy have had to develop succession plans as their designers have retired. Iconic Italian houses will probably be next, says Saint Pierre, marveling at who could fill the shoes of, say, Giorgio Armani or Valentino. And, she adds, "for sure within a decade the major U.S. designers will face the same challenge." No doubt they will know where to reach her. --By Kate Novack
...responding. On Home & Garden Television and the Food Network, among the fastest-growing ad-supported cable networks, the nonperfectionist programming is scoring the highest ratings. The Food Network's roster of shows launched in 2003 reads like a self-help catalog for cooking enthusiasts: Easy Entertaining and Everyday Italian as well as Lee's Semi-Homemade...