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When Anna Fendi Venturini, scion of the Italian fashion house, acquired the run-down Villa Laetitia in Rome, she saw potential in its cracked façade and overgrown garden. Fendi spent one year and several millions of dollars renovating the Art Nouveau mansion. The result is an upscale oasis of calm along the Tiber River...
...dilemma when he took over the Roman-based brand in 2004. With a mandate from LVMH boss Bernard Arnault to turn the company around, Burke had to find a way to keep designer Karl Lagerfeld in the fold and also massage a better relationship between the designer and Silvia Venturini Fendi, the talent behind Fendi's handbag business. That required yet another kind of nuclear power plant, one that Burke promptly set about creating in the form of Fendi's historic palazzo in the center of Rome, which he renovated in order to relocate scattered design studios and management offices...
...teal and mustard, inspired by unlikely fashion icons - the British royals, as depicted in period portraits. The Windsor influence didn't show up elsewhere, but the pared-down styles did. At Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld sent out crisp white eyelet skirts and polka-dot blouses as a backdrop to Silvia Venturini Fendi's standout handbags - now in funky combinations of straw, plastic, canvas and patent leather. At Bottega Veneta, designer Tomas Maier paired sterling silver?ornamented velvet handbags with simple dresses in dusty shades of khaki and stone.And Miuccia Prada made a strong case for the new simplicity with her plain...
...Ethiopia, on Arafat's left, separated them. To Rabin's right was Tomiichi Murayama, the Prime Minister of Japan. Nelson Mandela (second row, second from left) wore dark glasses. One of the tiniest countries in the world, San Marino, was represented by two Presidents, Pier Natalino Mularoni and Marino Venturini, who stood in the second row behind Yeltsin...
...Queen Fabiola, to woo the Low Countries. Nothing could shake the bitter Socialist Francophobes of Belgium and Italy. "The Belgian government can never accept this Spain," snapped Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, though he did not exclude bilateral trade agreements with Common Market nations. Italy's Ambassador Antonio Venturini made it plain that his government's apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) could never brook an apertura a Franco...