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Businesses these days are obsessed with outsourcing, and the fashion business is no different. You could say that the European designers on display at the spring 2005 collection last week in Milan went beyond manufacturing clothes abroad; they outsourced their inspiration. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who had recently traveled to Botswana, brought back a sexy show filled with zebra-striped chiffon dresses, ivory bangles and chic safari jackets. After a 10-day romp through Asia last April, Giorgio Armani returned with a vision of a fictional Asian woman in soft satin pajama pants, boxy Chinese jackets and coolie hats...
Florence, Venice, Siena, Ravenna, Milan. Where do you imagine yourself next year and in ten years...
...soon double in Europe. Like a pickup truck hauling a few apples, a copper wire actually has lots of empty space. The DSLAM throws in bushels of data and video. "This has been one of the single biggest enhancements to the technology," says Guido Garrone, chief technology officer of Milan-based Internet company FastWeb, which offers VOD to its subscribers. Who gets credit? Paris-based Alcatel dominates the global $3.3 billion DSLAM market with a 38.1% share, according to Gartner Inc. (China's Huawei is second with 9.9%). Alcatel not only revved up the DSLAM but made it cheaper...
Luxury quotient: Bulgari's product lines now include watches, perfume and accessories. In 1995 Trapani listed Bulgari on the Milan stock exchange. And he feted his 20th anniversary this year with the biggest gem yet: a posh Bulgari Hotel in Milan...
...largely the job of the decor to provide them. (Or to lure the crowd that completes the picture.) This is why restaurants are now second only to museums as the places where designers get to take their most audacious ideas out to play. In London and Milan, along the Pacific Rim, in Miami and Los Angeles and even Bombay, restaurants are the hot design laboratories...