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...night for the dinner shift. After a brief tour of the kitchen, he introduced me to the other cooks in the kitchen. There was one person on each station—antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolci—and I was to shadow the chef’s girlfriend Alessandra on sweets. Working 14 hours a day, six days a week, in a kitchen that spoke exclusively Italian, I started to question why I ever thought this apprenticeship had been a good idea. And when Alessandra switched to reception on the third night, leaving me solely responsible for the desserts...
...theater. With homegrown stars like Cynthia Gregory and Gelsey Kirkland, Americans have long since stopped regarding ballerinas as imports. But this year the headlines have been captured by three young foreigners. A major factor in American Ballet Theatre's most successful season in years is Italy's Alessandra Ferri, 23, an ethereal, hugely gifted dramatic dancer. Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, which has just finished its first North American tour in 22 years, is full of talent, but the great ovations have gone to Altynai Asylmuratova, 25, an exotic beauty blessed with a perfect line and the more elusive qualities...
Valentino Garavani, 75, the Roman couturier who has dressed some of the most famous women in the world, including Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor and Cate Blanchett, will retire in January after his haute couture show in Paris. Alessandra Facchinetti, a former designer of Gucci, will replace the legendary couturier as creative director of the Valentino women's collections, it was announced Wednesday by the London-based private equity fund, Permira, which owns a controlling stake in Valentino Fashion Group...
...east-coast Italian city, you could hear the first snippets of dialogue from the next act of the global economy's evolving plotline. "Wo jiao Francesco," says a young Italian man, at the start of a Mandarin lesson in an office conference room. With a quick "Bravo," for Francesco, Alessandra Brezzi, a moonlighting professor of Chinese from the nearby University of Urbino, begins drilling her seven students on useful workplace vocabulary (ziliao/raw material; caiwuchu/accounting department) and proper Chinese etiquette (introduce yourself with a business card ready; never open a gift right away). Of course, these lessons are by now standard...
...There are places you could get into trouble for this," scolds Brioni's communications director, Alessandra Alla. But not Milan, so Angeloni, 53, continues peeling off his vest to demonstrate what is special about a Brioni suit. He pulls up the lapel to display a cashmere backing (as opposed to the traditional felt) and a special thread to hold a boutonniere in place. He shows off a barely perceptible extra chest seam that requires a painstaking matching of stripes. He points out secret pockets and buttonholes stitched to look as good on the inside as out. (The buttonholes are stitched...