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...Beckham wears his animal-print tops and Mary J. Blige wears his dresses. His lush boutiques can be found in every major fashion capital. His company's slump-defying sales - from €67 million in 1999 to €206 million last year - are the talk of the industry from Milan to Tokyo. The easy explanation for the success of the house of Roberto Cavalli is that his sexually charged designs returned to the runway in 1994 - the perfect time to fill a missing niche in the then-minimalist fashion landscape. But the real reason for Cavalli's triumph...
...growing crowd of critics, Blob and a few other shows amount to just token opposition in a media landscape increasingly controlled by Berlusconi. Five of the seven major networks are either owned by him or controlled by his allies. His other assets include Mondadori publishing and Il Giornale, his Milan-based newspaper. Nearly two years since sweeping into office with a pledge to resolve his numerous media-related conflicts, Berlusconi now appears dead-set against ceding control for the duration of his five-year term. Free speech - both in practice and as a democratic value - seems to be a collateral...
...APPOINTED. MARINA BERLUSCONI, 36, eldest daughter of the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi; to head Italy's largest publisher, Mondadori, by its board; in Milan. Marina is also deputy chairperson of Fininvest, the Berlusconi family's holding company that controls Mondadori. The PM has come under fire for his multibillion-dollar business interests...
...converted the ultimate historical edifice, the three-century-old Royal Bank of Scotland on Savile Row, into a soaring yet soft retail space for Jil Sander. In the same vein, he created a modern shop in a 19th century building on 57th Street in New York City. In Milan he developed a 100,000-sq.-ft. emporium for Giorgio Armani, draped in soft blue hues, that complements the muted elegance that is the designer's trademark. "We're designing luxury retail spaces that don't feel commercial," he says. "They're being thought of as grand, modern homes...
...remember Leonardo as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect and scientist. Yet if one is to judge by the self-advertising letter he sent to Sforza in Milan in 1481, he didn't rate his skills that way. Before anything else, he listed his strategic ingenuity: he could design portable bridges, drain moats, bombard strongholds, design and cast siege cannon, make fireproof ships, and so on and on. Not until item No. 10, the last on his list, did he get around to saying that in painting too he could "do everything possible as well as any other." There may have...