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MILAN Italian actresses like Lory Del Santo, Licia Colo and Alba Parietti all cool their heels in Driade's Meridiana chair ($372) by Christophe Pillet...
Nothing like a beauty contest to get some national soul searching going. When two judges were suspended from the Miss Italy jury for saying DENNY MENDEZ, a Caribbean immigrant, could not represent Italian beauty, interest in the pageant got hotter than a curling iron. One judge, TV personality Alba Parietti, argued that "a black woman does not correspond to the canons of Italian beauty." Neither the jury nor the voting public agreed, and Mendez, who has been an Italian citizen for four years, won the crown. "I know I don't represent Italian beauty, but they elected me," she said...
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