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Gucci Cruise to present at Rome's Capitoline Museums

Gucci has finally revealed the site of its location for its Cruise 2020 runway show. Kering's hottest luxury brand will be showing at Rome's Capitoline Museums on May 28. Creative director Alessandro Michele chose this location because he wanted somewhere reminiscent of his childhood. The Museums are located on Capitoline Hill and offer a unique...

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ALESSANDRO MICHELE TO PRESENT THE CRUISE 2020 COLLECTION IN ROME’S CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS

March 11th, 2019 – Gucci and the City of Rome announce the Cruise 2020 fashion show will be held inside the Capitoline Museums on May 28, 2019. The choice of location continues Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele’s dialogue with the old world, this time drawing from a place reminiscent of his childhood. Located on the Capitoline Hill, the...

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Carla Fendi passes away in Rome

Carla Fendi, who along with four sisters helped build her parents' leather and fur goods shop in Rome into a global fashion powerhouse, has died aged 80, Italian press reports said Tuesday. Her death Monday was reported by members of her family, according to the reports. It was Carla and her sisters -- Paola, Anna, Franca and Alda -- who in 1965...

Fashion

Milan laughs while Rome cries ahead of Milan Fashion Week

While rays of sun warm the elegant marble monuments on Rome's skyline, Milan lies under grey crowds heavy with pollution. But beyond the blue skies the eternal city is battling crises on several fronts, while its northern rival has become the nerve centre of Italy, attracting not only record numbers of tourists but entrepreneurs and foreign...

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Italian fashion heavyweights rally for Rome Olympics

Italy's grand masters of fashion are lobbying for the global mega-event known as the Olympics to take place in Rome in 2024. The Rome2024 committee has nominated a group of 17 prominent ambassadors to promote the possibility, including designer Giorgio Armani, 21 Investimenti’s president Alessandro Benetton, Barilla Group’s president Guido...

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Rome's Colosseum gets a fashionable makeover

The first phase of a multi-million-euro makeover of Rome's Colosseum was completed Friday with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi pledging cash would be made available to spruce up other crumbling historic sites. In a project largely funded by fashion and shoewear group Tod's, the amphitheatre where gladiators once jousted with lions has been...

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Pucci fashion house heiress in manslaughter probe:

The heiress of Italian fashion house Emilio Pucci is under investigation for manslaughter after the death of two Egyptians killed when a tree on the family's property fell onto their car, media reports said Tuesday. Mohammed Fuad and his brother Mahamaoud Fuad were in the front seats of the car when it was crushed by a large pine tree in Rome....

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Rome's Trevi Fountain opens after Fendi makeover

Its elaborate Baroque facade now sparkles in the sun, scaffold-free: Rome's Trevi Fountain will gush its emerald waters once again Tuesday after a clean-up funded by Italian fashion house Fendi. Crowds of frustrated tourists have spent months peeking at bits of the monument from a special walkway put in over the fountain while repairs were...

Fashion

Italy's Fendi sets up home in fascist folly

Luxury fashion company Fendi on Thursday unveiled its new headquarters in a long-abandoned, now renovated architectural folly created by the WWII fascist leader Benito Mussolini in Rome. The building, known by Italians as the Square Colosseum but officially entitled the Palace of Italian Civilsation, was built by Mussolini as the centrepiece of...

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Azzedine Alaia's exhibition wins over Rome gallery goers

French-Tunisian designer Azzedine Alaia's dresses have been worn by first ladies and top models, but they have never fit better than in Rome, where they are on show in an exhibit that blends sculpture with couture. The "Couture/Sculpture" exhibition at the Italian capital's Villa Borghese "is not a fashion exhibition, but rather an exhibition...