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WHEN DESIGNER Ivana Omazic, 32, decided to leave home in the former Yugoslavia to study fashion in Milan, it was a very emotional decision. ?The war made it very difficult to leave my family,? she says. But she had known since age 5 that clothes would be her career, so she went to study at the European Institute of Design in Milan. In 1998, Omazic landed a job working for Miuccia Prada, which is when she learned to marry high-tech fabrics with feminine shapes. After seven years at Prada, Omazic was named creative director of Céline...
FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER the death of Ken Scott at age 72, Italian silk mill Isa Seta is reviving his designs. An American who settled in Italy, ?the gardener of fashion? was famous for splashing wild-colored peonies, anemones and roses all over his prints. Milan insiders like Angela Missoni and Lawrence Steele have been collecting vintage Scott, and now the design duo Paolo Battaglia and Antonio Ponte has culled from the archives eight of Scott's iconic prints?from the '50s through the early '70s?to reinvent the label in a ready-to-wear collection focused on fitted, slim...
...QUIRKY The more cosmopolitan the contemporary palate gets, the more specific it seems restaurant trends become, to the point that some establishments are going so far as to limit their focus to only one ingredient. In Milan, fashion insiders are talking about Obiká (Via Mercato), a new restaurant located in the trendy Brera district and devoted solely to mozzarella. The mozzarella di bufala is flown in fresh from Naples every 24 hours. As any Italian cheese expert will tell you, after that it loses its taste...
...same American soprano who got booed at Milan's La Scala a few years ago went to Paris recently to receive the Légion d'Honneur. After recording three new albums - the jazz-inspired Haunted Heart, the Strauss opera Daphne and a collection of sacred songs - Renée Fleming, 46, spoke with Time's Terry McCarthy about practicing in front of the mirror and learning to sing in Elvish. You have a Christmas album? Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc. Only now it's called a sacred collection. My father was a choral master...
...Like the view of Shanghai, many of Delano's China photographs, on exhibit in November at La Triennale di Milano Museum in Milan, Italy, use the tools of the darkroom to make a familiar scene eerie or allegorical. Delano shoots in black and white, but he prints in black and gray. His photos look as if they've been rubbed with charcoal and might smudge if touched. The China he depicts is a somber, worn, dusty place, often devoid of the hopeful gleam it wears on billboards, state TV?and in real life. Few of the people pictured smile...