Also impressive was a series of handkerchief dresses with witty prints of miniature planes, antique hotel keys or old tourist maps. Altogether, some great first date outfits, guaranteed to impress any admiring galant. No wonder it got a huge applause from the mega tony audience. The Torlonia family fortune was gained by saving the Vatican from ruin in the 18th century, the Corsini were the wealthiest merchants in Florence and the Borromeo produced several cardinals, oh, and even their own saint.
“It’s been a great week. I have been working with my granddaughter Talita and she was the one who suggested I put the original dress in the show,” smiled Diane.
“I told Talita last night that it was important to have plenty of boyfriends before you chose the right one. And I think she got the message,” confided von Furstenberg, as her pretty pre-teen granddaughter strolled off arm in arm with Vodianova’s handsome blond son Lucas. The kiddy couple even took a runway bow later with Diane, Natalia and the designer’s designer Nathan Jenden.
The show was the key event in Pitti W, the women’s wear section of Pitti, the giant menswear salon in Florence that is the best organized fashion trade show on the planet, bar none. Pitti’s organizers Raffaello Napoleone and Sibila della Gherardesca go to great efforts to use the outstanding architectural natural beauty of Florence. But even by their remarkable standards this was special.
The soiree was also the latest mega cruise collection event on the ever-growing calendar of what’s turned into a new international season: Dior in New York, Chanel in Miami, and Gucci in Rome next week.
But few things will match this evening, which underlined one of the great tragedies of contemporary Italian fashion – the main collections are staged in industrial Milan, not Renaissance Florence or classical Rome. Un grosso peccato – a real pity – but that’s the way it is.
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