Word: visconti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds had come some of the freshest talent of the U.S. and Europe: Choreographers Jerome Robbins and John Butler, Conductor Thomas Schippers, Painters Ben Shahn and Saul Steinberg, Stage Director Luchino Visconti. The biggest eye opener of the festival so far was an irreverent band of youngsters in sweatshirts and sneakers imported by Choreographer Robbins to give Italians a bracing sample of modern ballet...
...proud city-states of Italy, none was more arrogant or belligerent than Milan, the rich capital of Lombardy. The names of its militant warlords, the Visconti and the Sforza, sent chills down the spine of Italy. But in art, Milan has always been looked down upon as a poor cousin by such sophisticated citadels as Venice and Florence. Even today most tourists take a look at the towered Duomo (second largest cathedral in Italy), seek out the faded mural remains of The Last Supper (painted by an imported Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci) at Santa Maria delle Grazie, and hurry...
...Your love affair [with Mme. de Visconti] has lasted too long," runs a directive to Marshal Berthier. "I have a right to expect that a man . . . whom posterity will always picture at my side, shall no longer abandon himself . . . I want you to get married . . . If you don't, I will never see you again." (Berthier did take a wife, but not Mme. de Visconti...
...grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week, some 1,200 members of the garment industry crowded in for a look at the latest fashions from abroad. Among the 57 styles paraded across the stage were some from Europe's top designers-Dior, Fath, Balenciaga, Visconti. But the dress that brought the house down was "First Love," the product of an almost unknown Irish woman. Designed by Dublin's 32-year-old Sybil Connolly, it was a dazzling white ball gown made of gossamer-thin handkerchief linen. Sewn into 5,500 minuscule pleats and banded with...
Married. Alberto Fabiani, 40, and Simonetta Visconti, 30, Italy's two leading fashion designers (his specialty, daytime and cocktail wear; hers, play clothes and tailored suits); both for the second time; after years of friendly professional rivalry; in Rome...