Word: valentino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian accent is heavy and rich. At Richard-Ginori, customers select chinaware priced from $20 to $700 per place setting. Fashion Designer Valentino Garavani, whose ready-to-wear cocktail dresses can cost $800, has turned his Fifth Avenue boutique into an identical triplet of his Rome and Milan extravaganzas-all mirrors, brass and thick beige carpet. Mario of Florence, who sells women's shoes at from $82 to $420 a pair, operates out of a grand salon that could have been lifted from a jet-age Florentine palazzo. Roberta di Camerino's place, which specializes in sportswear...
Except for Ginori, which is listed on the Rome stock exchange, the avenue's Italian stores are all privately owned family enterprises. Some, like the proliferous Valentino-who operates nearly 80 retail outlets round the world-have been forced to franchise a number of their shops, but keep a firm hand on their agents. Buccellati and Bulgari are brother acts: one brother minds the store in New York while the others produce the jewels back home. Salvatore Ferragamo, who got his start making shoes for Silent Screen Stars Mary Pickford and Pola Negri, left his business to his widow...
...early this year. So will W.C. Fields and Me, starring Rod Steiger. Mel Brooks is making a silent comedy, while Peter Bogdanovich is about to start work on a talkie set in the silent era called Nickelodeon. Ken Russell, fresh from destroying Liszt, will now have a go at Valentino, casting Rudolf Nureyev as the screen's greatest lover. Recently, Elia Kazan started to film F. Scott Fitzgerald's own Hollywood novel, The Last Tycoon. Even now, a large German shepherd called Gus is barking his way across the country on a promotion campaign...
...between Guilty or Innocent: The Sheppard Murder Case (NBC) and Valentino (ABC). Trashy subject matter redeemed by the total sobriety-and professionalism-of its presentation...
...buck private in the Greek army, Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis, 30, serves in style. With Rome sweltering in 91° heat, Andreadis and his bride of three weeks, Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis, 24, turned up in Rome's most luxurious shopping district. After a stop at Valentino's dress shop, they adjourned to Gucci, where Christina bought several leather handbags, and to Battistoni, where Alexander picked out some very civilian silk shirts. Then the pair jumped back into their Rolls-Royce and drove off. "That's one of the problems with the Greek army," reflected a former...