Word: valentino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pass the smelling salts: Valentino has deserted Italy for France. And that's not all. Romeo Gigli will take his pseudo-cerebral fashions out of Milan and plunk them down in the middle of the Paris runways. Desertion! Infamy! Tribal politics! Frets Beppe Modenese, program organizer of the just concluded Milan fashion week: "Both Valentino and Gigli have done big damage to the Italian fashion image...
...have their clothes, but then that is a matter of taste. By choosing to absent themselves from their home turf, Valentino and Gigli have sent the kind % of political signal that is beyond debate: Paris is fashion central, and Milan is just a big backyard. This is not news to the French, of course, who responded to the story of the traveling Italians with the kind of equanimity that barely skirts smugness. "Paris is still No. 1 in fashion," says Jacques Mouclier, president of the Chambre Syndicale, which sponsors the twice-yearly ready-to-wear fashion shows held...
Perhaps not. Gigli and Valentino have already said plenty. "I don't believe in frontiers," reflects Gigli. Explains Carla Sozzani, a business associate of the designer's: "Romeo's all for 1992 and a united Europe." Valentino has announced some similar geopolitical aims. "I am going to Paris as an Italian designer to speak for Italy," he says. "I will never betray my country, but I need the challenge to do better." Elaborates Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino's partner: "Rome is becoming a very provincial market, and it's simply not stimulating the creator...
...Kimberly. Before you close a deal on that two-story house near the Rudolph Valentino mansion on Bella Drive, you should know that this was where Sharon Tate and four others were murdered by Manson's minions. And if you're thinking of renting an apartment in that tan building on Shoreham Drive, consider the effect on property values of Diane Linkletter's 1969 suicide leap from the sixth floor after a bad LSD trip. Your friendly Realtor might not mention that the brown house on Benedict Canyon Drive was the spot where George Reeves, TV's Superman, "fired...
...EAGLE (PBS, Nov. 25, 9 p.m. on most stations). Rudolph Valentino, the silent screen's Tony Danza, plays a dashing Cossack lieutenant in the 1925 classic, newly restored and rescored, on Great Performances...