Word: micol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ermanno is an aging scholar-gentleman who has passed his life in obscure antiquarian studies, and who regards the Fascists with courtly contempt. Mother Olga is an aristocratic wraith who lives only to mourn the death of her six-year-old child. Son Alberto is a languid dilettante. Daughter Micol is a beautiful, spirited intellectual who cannot bring herself to escape the family's fortress of unreality...
Fascinated by this elegant, decadent little world is the sensitive, literary son of a freethinking, middle-class Jewish doctor. Gradually, as Fascist racial laws isolate and draw together the Jews of Ferrara, a tenuous intimacy develops with Micol. She leads him on, rejects him; leaves Ferrara, returns. He haunts the house, pursues her by phone, abuses and amuses and even makes love...
...finding himself imprisoned in the moribund Eden that the Finzi-Continis have chosen to inhabit, he breaks off with Micol, begins to live a life on his own. A few years later, he witnesses the final destruction of the family: Alberto succumbs to a malignant disease; Micol and her parents are deported to Germany, presumably to die in the Nazis' gas chambers...
...capes: Eleanora Garnett smocks them for daytime, Fontana cuts them in satin and velvet for evening, Faraoni makes sleeves of them for narrow dresses. Romantic, richly worked evening gowns slink to floor length, Gattinoni's narrow satin gowns come with heavily beaded apron fronts, and Top Designer Micol Fontana offers a blue velvet ball gown with gold embroidery spilling over the skirt. Fontana, whose colors include something called "adoration red," says of the new line: "It's a reaction against all this talk of war and bombs. In evening a woman should be allowed to wear something sweet...