Word: cappellini
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...glass box on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The $20 million building is nearly as impressive as the swarm of big brands--Fendi, Marni, Ferragamo, Prada, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent--clustered in mini shops inside, along with a Botox bar and a traditional Middle Eastern restaurant (with nontraditional Cappellini furniture) overlooking Kuwait Bay. To make sure the opening didn't go unnoticed, al-Sabah offered members of the international fashion set free business-class flights so they could celebrate with him at a $500,000, three-day party. Some 200 of them, including Bloomingdale's fashion director Kal Ruttenstein...
...jumping-off point for war but also as a locus of beaches, shopping and spas. He wants Kuwait to be cool. So he keeps fashion folk interested with events he knows are irresistible to them: Prada caftans! A T-shirt collaboration of British artist Gary Hume and Stella McCartney! Cappellini furniture, reconceived by fashion designers...
...There's the trade show bit, hundreds of booths in the Milan convention center, the Fiera. There are the cocktails, held each night at various showrooms around town so that cutting-edge designers from the world over have an opportunity to mix and mingle. And there are the installations. Cappellini's is the most famous and usually the most fun, focusing as much on partying as on product. This year, to highlight a new "Swimming Pool" collection of Pucci fabrics on its furniture, Cappellini had bathing-suit-clad models lounging on the lounges. There are a slew of published guides...
...Communists, trade is not a business, but a political weapon. In Italy, every businessman who deals with the East must pay a brokerage fee to a Communist Senator, Egisto Cappellini. The fees provide the chief financial support of Italy's Communist Party. Individual businessmen cannot trade with state monopolies on anything approaching equal terms. In trying to deal with Soviet monopolies, businessmen have to pay in advance for imports which may take months to arrive, often have their own shipments arbitrarily rejected at great loss...
...RINALDO CAPPELLINI...