Word: riccardo
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...seemingly prescient coincidence during Paris fashion week, Riccardo Tisci, creative director for Givenchy, showed a collection that incorporated black gowns, veils, and stunning metallic face coverings, undoubtedly references to traditional Muslim garb. This creative take on Muslim attire defies the idea that burkas deny individuality or “deprive all identity...
Twenty years ago, a question posed by Italian journalist Riccardo Ehrmann prompted an East German official to say the words that triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now new facts have emerged that shed a different light on that fateful press conference...
...notion that the end of the old German Democratic Republic, as East Germany was properly known, was an accident triggered by a journalist's spontaneous question has now been challenged. In an interview with the German regional public broadcaster MDR Riccardo Ehrmann, 79, who last year was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the German government, revealed that a ruling party official had called him before the press conference urging him to ask about the new travel...
...Riccardo Ehrmann a puppet of the GDR regime? And did the SED have more control over the situation than previously thought? Contemporary historian Manfred Wilke doesn't think so. "This is just more proof how advanced the inner disintegration of the SED already was at that point," he says. "The SED wanted to ease the pressure and show that it was serious about the reforms it had promised." The GDR government at that point was already under enormous pressure not only from inside of the country, where cries to lift travel restriction were becoming louder and louder, but also from...
...suggested that financial workers dress down for the day, fearful a baying mob could set about them. That was never likely. While some outside the Bank of England jeered at the staff standing behind its leaded windows, others waved. Those workers who did brave the streets went unmolested. Riccardo Dilorenzo, an immaculately suited property developer stepping out from a nearby office, even dared to label the protesters "hypocrites" since "half of them don't work." (Even he, though, might have admired the opportunism of others; street hawkers' "antigovernment whistles" - strangely similar to standard ones - could be bought for a pound...