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Looking for Caucasian male 28-38 (If at the high end, must play younger) in good shape, lean, professional. Character is cocky but compassionate. A manipulator but good at heart. Think Val Kilmer in a suit.
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Age: from 28 to 38
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Those who fared best during the week were the designers who stuck to their fashion guns, and presented styles which were both believable and wearable for a couture client
Other show stoppers included a transsexual violinist model at Franco Ciambella, and the studded biker styles and blaring rock music offered up by British designer Andrew McKenzie
Navarra is not the only one to see a missing link between the old world grandeur of couture and the new age beat of ready-to-wear
"It's the right place for a rebirth of couture in the capital," said Carla Fendi, one of the five sisters of Rome's most famous fashion family
While the fashion week was hopping with after-show parties, including a closing night chess match with live figures in couture creations, von Furstenberg canceled his event in deference to the death Jan
Thus the most applauded looks were the dark charm of Sarli's ladies in long black satin evening wear, the ultra-femininity of Balestra's wisteria women, wrapped in diaphanous lilac chiffon, and the carefree spirit of Egon von Furstenberg's glamour gals, decked out in colorful gowns with plunging neckline and a daring rear view 24 of his uncle and godfather Giovanni Agnelli "
While encouraging designers to stick to fashion in their shows, Modenese sees signs of improvement in the presentation of the collections, which hit a low in the 1990's, particularly after Italy's favorite couture son Valentino abandoned the Rome runway for Paris
Rosary beads draped over a seminude model in a video that accompanied the show of Persian designer Farhad cannot but raise eyebrows in the pope's Eternal City
"There is the tendency to confuse shock with innovation," said Beppe Modenese, honorary president of the Italian Fashion Chamber, and the man who put Milan ready-to-wear on the international fashion map In the past most shows took place in hotels and private ateliers
The up-and-coming designer, who also shows on the Milan ready-to-wear runway, threw down his fashion gauntlet Thursday, the last day of the five-day Italian couture presentations for spring-summer 2003
Shock was certainly one of the main ingredients of the current preview showings
Von Furstenberg recalled that the patriarch of the Fiat dynasty and international style-setter was always supportive of his nephew's fashion career
He approves of the new location for the shows, a wing of the new music auditorium designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano Italian Couture Presentations Wrap Up
Jan 31, 11:52 AM EST
Italian designer Gaetano Navarra's message was creative and clear: broken metal chains embroidered on his outfits, strewn on the runway and tossed on the chairs of the audience to say "something's gotta give" in the high fashion business
Known for his urban chic, Navarra's first couture collection is based on street wear raised to high society level: gold bomber jackets, satin cargo pants, distressed lace evening gowns, and a $1,000 T-shirt embroidered with glittering chains
"Rome high fashion is maturing," Modenese said
"It is time to release fashion from the old molds and models of the past, which no longer correspond with the client of the third millennium," Navarra said before his show
Designer Camillo Bona sent Pat Cleveland, a top model of the 1980's, down the runway blindfolded, to spare her the sight of what he terms, "the sorry state of high fashion "Uncle Gianni got a real kick out of my work," von Furstenberg said, after his show Tuesday night
