Word: italianizing
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...MADE YOUR NAME OPENING FRENCH RESTAURANTS. WHAT PROMPTED YOU TO OPEN AN ITALIAN PLACE? I've spent a great deal of time in Italy over the past six or seven years. But my motivation was museums, not food. I went again and again to look at certain paintings. Not [Giorgio] Morandi's, oddly enough. Eating and restaurants were truly incidental at that point but became less so the more I was there. After a while, I just thought I'd return to New York and give it a go. I'd also known [my chef] Jody Williams for some time...
Forget the free-flowing blouses and unstructured handbags that have dominated department-store shelves for months. The mood this summer is decidedly sharper, and designers are taking their inspiration from origami. At the Christian Dior haute couture show, models posed in intricately tucked, bowed and creased ensembles, while Italian design company Pallucco's complex Glow lamp could easily double for a paper crane. For a more loosely based interpretation, turn to MOMA Design Store's curvy leather caterpillar or Ligne Roset's angular Facett chair. Even Lalique has come into the fold with Vibration, a collection of crystal pieces inspired...
...MILAN Italian actresses like Lory Del Santo, Licia Colo and Alba Parietti all cool their heels in Driade's Meridiana chair ($372) by Christophe Pillet...
...times, the caricatures did not quite work. The actors occasionally seemed to take it too seriously. Undine’s supposedly Spanish hubby (Duke) had mannerisms that were successfully affected, but his (Spanish? French? Italian? Made-up?) accent was incomprehensible. Nonetheless, other roles, such as those played by Jennifer C. Sullivan ’09, were out of this world...
...Latin America continues to deal with widespread poverty and the continent's Catholics increasingly lose ground to Evangelical movements. Still the Pope has managed to keep up his writings, including the conclusion of a book he began in 2003 on the life of Jesus, which comes out Monday in Italian and German, and next month in English...