Word: milan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thoroughly captured and made over this little pocket of the present that when he decided not to show his new fall women's line during the semiannual glitz and giddiness known loosely as the Milan collections, he incurred the wrath of the press but walked off with the honors anyway. "Armani is the king of the Italian Alps," says Geraldine Stutz, president of the modish New York City department store Henri Bendel. The assorted princesses, princelings and pretenders scattered about the feudal fashion kingdom of Milan sent their models gadding down runways in all the latest...
...success were by no means clear twelve years ago, when Armani had to be cajoled away from his steady $40,000-a-year job designing men's wear for Nino Cerruti. It took the considerable persuasive powers of Sergio Galeotti, then 25 and a draftsman in a leading Milan architectural firm, to lure Armani from the kind of early middle-aged complacency he was slipping into. Armani, the second of three children of a transport-company manager in Piacenza, 40 miles southeast of Milan, grew up during World War II and remembers waking up screaming from nightmares about...
...open letter to Red Brigades members still at large, urging them to abandon their armed struggle. The message was underscored by a similar plea from the Brigades' reputed mastermind, Enrico Fenzi, 43, a onetime professor of Italian literature at the University of Genoa who was arrested in Milan last year. Wrote Fenzi: "In ten long bloody years, the armed struggle has demonstrated its inability to construct any political program whatever. The Red Brigades chapter is tragically closed...
...fuller and more feminine than the tight, boxy '60s style. "Flippy" is the word used by some skirt watchers. Says New York's Cuban-born designer Adolfo: "The old minis looked like clothes that had been chopped off at the bottom. Now they are different, looser." Adds Milan's Giorgio Armani: "The new miniskirt is not stiff and straight but soft, fitted at the hips and gathered for a short volume effect. It is also a natural evolution toward femininity after the dizzying circus of pants, knickers, Bermudas, gauchos and Zouaves." Valentino, the dean of Italian designers...
...Infelisi and his fellow crusaders reverse history? Many Italians hope so. But Milan's Corriere della Sera may have sounded the most realistic note. "When the dust has settled," the newspaper cynically predicted, "everything will be the same as before...