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Nicole Kidman and Ang Lee
join starry Cannes jury
24 aprile 2013 - 18:32
PARIS (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival announced its most Hollywood-heavy jury lineup in years Wednesday, with a list that includes Oscar winners Nicole Kidman, Christoph Waltz and Ang Lee.
Veteran filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who is 2013's jury president, will make this an Oscar-winning quartet — a rare event for a festival that prides itself on celebrating less mainstream, ind...(leggi tutto)
Dolce&Gabbana’s new line recalls sacred, profane
24 febbraio 2013 - 22:14
(BY DANIELA PETROFF,AP Fashion Writer) "La Dolce Vita" was the name of the game at Dolce&Gabbana, where the fun-loving designing duo recalled the sacred and profane of mundane Italian life, as exposed in director Federico Fellini's 1960 movie.
The winter collection shown Sunday drew inspiration from Byzantine religious art and classic couture. Nino Rota's slightly dist...(leggi tutto)
La Scala criticizes Milan
daily music critic
05 febbraio 2013 - 18:28
La Scala opera house has taken the unusual step of censuring a music critic from the Milan daily Corriere della Sera known for his biting commentaries.
General Manager Stephane Lissner said in a letter published Sunday that his opera house "decided to distance" itself from Paolo Isotta because he had betrayed a critic's role "to think, to reflect," and instead had waged "per...(leggi tutto)
Calvin Klein creates 24-hour winter look
18 gennaio 2013 - 22:22
Italo Zucchelli, creative director for Calvin Klein Collection menswear, invented his own version of the layered look by combining sportswear with formal attire to create a 24-hour look for the winter 2014.
"Nobody wants to change several times a day anymore," Zucchelli told reporters ahead of his Sunday show during Milan Fashion Week.
A sporty quilted nylon vest can be worn...(leggi tutto)
Dolce&Gabbana offer
masculine romanticism
12 gennaio 2013 - 20:43
Dolce and Gabbana's menswear collection for next winter is pure masculinity, infused with southern romanticism.
With motifs of winter roses, illuminated Madonnas and baroque embossing, the 2014 winter menswear collection previewed Saturday during Milan Fashion Week evokes Sicily, a tip to the designers' roots. And to drive home the point, the designing duo chose ordinary Sic...(leggi tutto)
Vatican criticizes court
ruling on gays’ children
12 gennaio 2013 - 20:39
The Vatican has insisted that children should grow up with a father and a mother after Italy's high court granted custody of a child to his gay mother.
In its decision Friday, the Court of Cassation said there was no "scientific certainty or experience-based data" to support the father's claims that the child's development was being damaged by living with his mother and her ...(leggi tutto)
just €21,800 spent
Vatican austerity means
donated nativity scene
13 dicembre 2012 - 21:40
The Vatican has happily accepted a donated Nativity scene for St. Peter's Square this Christmas after a previous setup costing €550,000 ($717,000) was exposed by the embarrassing scandal over leaked Vatican documents.
Monsignor Giuseppe Sciacca, the No. 2 administrator of the Vatican city state, told reporters Thursday that the Vatican was spending just €21,800 for labor and...(leggi tutto)
Brazil
Transgenders break into
modeling sector
06 dicembre 2012 - 09:00
Walking the catwalk in a Brazilian bikini is a nerve-racking experience for even the most seasoned of models, but for Felipa Tavares it's nothing short of terrifying.
The 6-foot-tall Tavares is among Brazil's small but growing ranks of transgender models — leggy, high-cheekboned sirens who were born men and are causing a splash here as well as in Paris and other internationa...(leggi tutto)
Dina Manfredini was born in Italy in 1897
Iowa woman now world’s
oldest person
05 dicembre 2012 - 19:49
A 115-year-old woman in Iowa has become the world's oldest living person.
Guinness World Records posted on its website Wednesday that Dina Manfredini of Johnston has inherited the title after Bessie Cooper of Georgia died Tuesday. Cooper was 116.
Guinness officials provided few details about the latest record holder. Manfredini was born on April 4, 1897, in Italy. She mov...(leggi tutto)
Holidays
Guide to coffee table books
as gifts
15 novembre 2012 - 17:30
Even people without coffee tables enjoy coffee table books as gifts, especially if they're thoughtfully chosen rather than hastily snatched from a store shelf at the last minute.
The holidays bring fresh choices every year among large-format, photo-driven books. A sampler among new releases:
FASHION & STYLE
"Vogue: The Editor's Eye," Abrams Books, feature...(leggi tutto)
Life&Style
Sarah Jessica Parker
among stars honoring fashion
27 ottobre 2012 - 08:09
Fashion may have been the focus of the Night of Stars gala in New York, but actress Sarah Jessica Parker was more interested in talking politics.
"I think there's an enormous amount at stake, it concerns me," said the "Sex and the City" star of the U.S. presidential election. She said she would be in "great despair" if President Barack Obama lost the vote to Republican Mitt ...(leggi tutto)
Frida Kahlo, her real look,
on display in Mexico
04 ottobre 2012 - 07:45
The women on the cocktail circuit of the late 1930s were all curve-hugging dresses and gelled curls. Not Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo. She graced dinner parties and theaters from Paris to New York in ribbons, full skirts and loose peasant blouses embroidered with vividly colored flowers, and her uni-brow was a bold contrast to the pencil-line eyebrows of the time.
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Milan Fashion Week
Summer fashion should be fun
25 settembre 2012 - 08:03
The looks were sheer and the message for next summer from Milan was crystal clear: Fashion should be fun.
Many designers showing spring-summer collections during Milan Fashion Week made prominent use of sheer fabrics. But rather than being straight-out sexy, the effect was often an optical illusion, giving the eye more to feast on, not less.
At Missoni...(leggi tutto)
Crisis darkens the future of millions of youth
In Europe crisis, connection culture stifles youth
25 settembre 2012 - 07:48
Maria Adele Carrai has two master's degrees from Italian universities in economics and Asian languages and is now earning her Ph.D. in international law in Hong Kong. Her linguistic credentials are formidable: Besides native Italian, she has nearly flawless English, a rarity in Italy, as well as French, Arabic, Japanese and Mandarin.
But the 26-year-old from a family of phys...(leggi tutto)
Milan Fashion Week
Max Mara woman,
hunter not hunted
20 settembre 2012 - 15:59
Whether in leopard prints or safari wear, the Max Mara woman is the hunter not the hunted.
The Max Mara collection presented during Milan Fashion Week on Thursday evokes the jungle, where foliage prints provide natural camouflage for the animalistic spirit ready to spring — a mood captured in curve-hugging dresses in stripes of spotted and floral prints.
The silhouette is...(leggi tutto)
too late for blocking international publication
French court rules for
UK royals in topless photos
18 settembre 2012 - 13:07
A French court has ordered the publisher of a gossip magazine to hand over all digital copies of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge and blocked the further publication of the images.
Under the ruling, the magazine Closer cannot publish the images of an intimate moment in the south of France any further, including on its website and tablet application. The magazine pu...(leggi tutto)
"Chi" goes ahead with topless Kate pics
