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...sold silk from the Far East. By the 1930s, his grandson Gennaro had opened a boutique in the center of Naples called London House, so named for his preference for cashmere, tweed and Shetland wool?and, of course, bespoke tailoring. Today Mariano continues the family tradition with shops in Milan, Rome and Tokyo...
...CIAO! CIAO!? It's lunchtime in Milan, Italy, when most Milanese traditionally settle into a nice plate of risotto. But inside the Dolce & Gabbana flagship store on Via della Spiga, the mood is frantic, with shoppers young and old slapping down credit cards for the label's signature $2,900 pin-striped pantsuits and $3,500 fur-trimmed coats. It seems there are not enough salespeople to handle the traffic, so Alberto Addis, the store's visual merchandiser, is lending a hand, greeting two women who have wandered past the acres of shiny black-glass walls and Murano-glass...
Even after 20 years in business, Domenico Dolce (the shorter, bald one) and Stefano Gabbana (tall and angular) remain incredibly accessible. Although their company boasts wholesale revenues of more than $1 billion and both designers live in splendor in the same central Milan building, Stefano on the sixth floor, Domenico on the fifth?never mind the houses in Roquebrune, France, and in Stromboli and Portofino, Italy?Dolce and Gabbana live what they consider an ?approachable? life. Gabbana, 43, still rides around his native Milan on a Vespa (albeit a leopard-print one). And Dolce, 47, who hails from...
...boys??as they are referred to affectionately in fashion circles?met at a Milan nightclub in 1982. It was at a moment when, thanks to Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion had come of age. Dolce, who comes from a family of well-established tailors, had been hankering for a job in Armani's design studio. When that did not happen, he went to work for a relatively unknown designer named Giorgio Correggiari and got his new boyfriend a job too. But they had bigger dreams than just working behind the scenes at a small company. They saw the success...
Pooling their savings?some $2,000?Dolce and Gabbana signed up to show their small collection with a group of four other young designers. Word spread around Milan, a few editors and buyers took note, and by March 1986 they were staging their first solo show, ?Real Women.? Dolce's sister Dorotea and his brother Alfonso worked the door. Joan Burstein of the London boutique Brown's came and snapped up the collection of romantic, Sicilian-inspired dresses and strictly tailored pantsuits that were very much in contrast to both Armani and Versace?then the opposing poles...