Word: milan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European dresser takes neatness seriously: The shirt--tucked in; the shoelaces--tied; the hair--combed. There is absolutely no substitute for refined taste when one is selecting from a range of articles that stretches across the Atlantic from Paris and Milan to 5th Ave., skips across 66th and all the rest of the way down Park. Armani, Ungaro, Valentino, Versace, Fendi, Dior, St. Laurent. Not many college students are able to pull off these designs. The few are bound to retain a high profile in any classroom...
...investiture? Maria Lea Pedini, 26, first woman Captain-Regent of tiny San Marino (a country 24 miles square perched on a mountainside in Italy), shunned the flat hat and knickers demanded by tradition last week. The pretty wife and mother chose a skirt and more feminine chapeau from a Milan designer. La Capitana wants reform in the world's oldest republic, where women were barred from voting until 1960, and where even today women lose citizenship if they marry foreigners. One obstacle to change: her term lasts only six months...
...Milan basked in the heady perfume of spring flowers and international applause. The ready-to-wear collections paraded at the Italian fashion center last week triumphantly upheld its tradition of sophistication and charm. By contrast with the far-out fantasy fashion of Paris, la moda milanese stands more than ever for inventive, well-made clothes that are wearable in a real world: functional but feminine by day, dramatic but not stagy by night...
...hard-driving northerner, tanned, silver-haired, blue-eyed Armani remains as trim and fit as a male model half his age. His studio is in a 16th-century palazzo in downtown Milan. Despite the surroundings, he prides himself on "de-dramatizing" the female image. Armani maintains that "young women want to dress in a classic way, elegantly, but not a la Dior or Chanel in the '40s. Women today move differently. Today's body should not be confined by clothes that are too structured." Associates note that Armani collaborates closely with several women designers in his studio...
...other was Leonardo da Vinci. The bastard son of a Florentine notary, Leonardo was born in 1452 and died in 1519. Almost from the moment that he emerged from Verrocchio's workshop in the 1470s and began his long, peripatetic and disappointed life among the courts of Rome, Milan, France and his home town, Florence, his graphic power was a source of utter astonishment to his contemporaries. When commentators applied the adjective divino to him (as they regularly did, in a conventional way, from the beginning of the 16th century onward), they implied that his talent was godlike...