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...days before Milan's semi-annual fashion shows begin, Italian newspapers report that some of the biggest names in the industry would soon be indicted for allegedly bribing tax officials to go easy on audits. Among those reported by Italian news agencies: Giorgio Armani, Gianfranco Ferre and Mariuccia Mandelli (the name behind Krizia.) TIME Rome reporter Greg Burke says that nearly all the top Italian fashion designers had been called in over the last several months as part of the massive "Clean Hands" corruption probe. Today, Armani reacted coolly: "It's a formality related to the known investigation...
...intention of reviewing, or purchased discounted designer clothes at invitation-only "sample sales." The difference is the way the fashion press has come to take its often valuable spoils for granted, sometimes in spite of employers' explicit rules. "When I go to the shows in Paris and Milan, the number of shopping bags coming in is unbelievable," notes Brubach, who says she accepts no free or discounted clothes, in accordance with Times policy. "You don't need to be a private detective when everyone shows up the next day in an anorak with a lining that says chanel, chanel, chanel...
...responds EMI executive Steve Murphy. He asserts that the monks have received "substantial" royalties in excess of $40,000, adding that Buruaga is not privy to details of the contract. "That," Masso retorts, "is like telling a cardinal he doesn't know the business of the church." Murphy accuses Milan Records of fomenting the dispute for "publicity purposes" and says EMI will release another album of the monks' music soon...
...earned a paltry $40,000 from it--hardly enough to patch the leaking roof over their medieval cloister. In response, the monks have followed the example of secular recording stars from time immemorial: they've switched labels. Their new CD, The Soul of Chant, was released last month by Milan Records, a smaller classical label...
...Soul of Chant, in any event, has risen to No. 10 on the classical charts--not a blockbuster like Chant, but enough to make Milan chairman Emmanuel Chamboredon rejoice. Signing the robed hitmakers, he says, was a "gift...