Versace Spring Summer 2010 Runway Video: Milan Fashion Week

Versace: Milan Fashion Week Spring Summer 2010

Milan Fashion Week wraps up after the Women's Spring Summer 2010 fashion shows from Italy's fashion designers. The world loves to see what's in store from famous Made In Italy fashion brands like Armani, Bottega Veneta, Cavalli, Dolce & Gabanna, Ferre, Ferreti, Gucci, Prada, Missoni, Moschino & Versace.

WebVisionItaly.com brings you Milan Fashion Week, September 2009, where the runway models are strutting the fashion cat walks showing off the latest designs by Made in Italy brands. Here enjoy video of Versace Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway.

The Versace show did not disappoint the men, with mini-mini skirts on Versace's models many of which were see-through, 2010 Milan Fashion shows signal an economic boom on the horizon if skirt lengths are still a leading indicator. Donatella Versace is not really a subtle designer — and why should she be when there are other designers who already occupy that territory? What she does best is loud and vibrant, color combined with metal combined with contoured micro-shapes takes on a momentum of its own.







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Alonso joins Ferrari for three years

Alonso joins Ferrari for three years

Spain's two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso has joined Ferrari for three years, the Italian Grand Prix outfit said Wednesday.

The agreement covers three racing seasons starting in 2010, Ferrari said in a statement.

Alonso, 28, will line up with Brazilian Felipe Massa with Giancarlo Fisichella in the role of reserve driver. Finland's Kimi Raikkonen, who won the world crown in 2007 will leave the Scuderia at the end of this current season.

"We are very proud to welcome to our team another winning driver, who has demonstrated his amazing talent by winning two World Championships in his career to date," said Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali.

The statement did not reveal the value of the three-year deal although media reports have estimated Alono's salary at 25 million euros (36 million US dollars) a season. After winning the drivers' championship with Renault in 2005 and 2006, Alonso spent an unhappy year with McLaren before returning to French constructor Renault last year. Speculation had been rife in the Formula One paddock of an impending move by Alonso to Ferrari with Raikkonen moving on to McLaren.

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San Domenico New York City Resurrected as SD26

What to Eat at SD26, the Italian restaurant sequel to San Domenico?



Tony May and daughter Marisa May resurrected San Domenico as SD26, which opened September 15 as chef Odette Fada debuted her modern-Italian menu. The name comes from San Domenico now located at 19 East 26th Street, near Madison Avenue.

Fada’s dishes are Italian-product driven, so the Mays prepared for the opening by heading to Italy and asking Michelin-starred chefs to test the recipes. The process was portrayed in a reality show in Italy called Gambero Rosso. Maybe the show will air in the United States.

SD26 is divided into a front lounge and a two-tier dining room. Near the bar, there's a wine-preservation system that allows for finer wines to be served by the glass. The soaring dining room is framed by a private-party space above. Artwork is by fiber artist Sheila Hicks, who created colorful woven waves on one wall in the bar area and dangling balls of yarn in the back. Downstairs is a rustic private wine room that full of old Barolos and an Italian wood table salvaged from the original San Domenico.




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Bottega Veneta Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway Video: Milan Fashion Week

Bottega Veneta Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway Video: Milan Fashion Week Milan Fashion Week wraps up after the Women's Spring Summer 2010 fashion shows from Italy's fashion designers. The world loves to see what's in store from famous Made In Italy fashion brands like Armani, Bottega Veneta, Cavalli, Dolce & Gabanna, Fendi, Ferre, Ferretti, Gucci, Missoni, Prada, Moschino & Versace.


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Yohji Yamamoto Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway Video: MIlan Fashion Week

Yohji Yamamoto Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway Video: Milan Fashion Week

Milan Fashion Week wraps up after the Women's Spring Summer 2010 fashion shows from Italy's fashion designers. The world loves to see what's in store from famous Made In Italy fashion brands like Armani, Bottega Veneta, Cavalli, Dolce & Gabanna, Ferre, Ferreti, Gucci, Prada, Moschino & Versace.

WebVisionItaly.com brings you Milan Fashion Week, September 2009, where the runway models are strutting the fashion cat walks showing off the latest designs by Made in Italy brands. Here enjoy video of Yohji Yamamoto Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway.

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Pucci Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway Video: Milan Fashion Week

Pucci Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway Video: Milan Fashion Week


Milan Fashion Week wraps up after the Women's Spring Summer 2010 fashion shows from Italy's fashion designers. The world loves to see what's in store from famous Made In Italy fashion brands like Armani, Bottega Veneta, Cavalli, Dolce & Gabanna, Fendi, Ferre, Ferretti, Gucci, Missoni, Prada, Moschino & Versace.

WebVisionItaly.com brings you Milan Fashion Week, September 2009, where the runway models are strutting the fashion cat walks showing off the latest designs by Made in Italy brands. Here enjoy video of Pucci Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway show.









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Giorgio Armani Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway Video: Milan Fashion Week

Giorgio Armani Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway Video: Milan Fashion Week

Milan Fashion Week wraps up after the Women's Spring Summer 2010 fashion shows from Italy's fashion designers. The world loves to see what's in store from famous Made In Italy fashion brands like Armani, Bottega Veneta, Cavalli, Dolce & Gabanna, Ferre, Ferretti, Gucci, Prada, Moschino & Versace.

WebVisionItaly.com brings you Milan Fashion Week, September 2009, where the runway models are strutting the fashion cat walks showing off the latest designs by Made in Italy brands. Here enjoy Giorgio Armani Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway Video.






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Gianfranco Ferre Spring Summer 2010 Runway Video: Milan Fashion Week

Gianfranco Ferre Spring Summer 2010 Runway Video: Milan Fashion Week September 2009

Milan Fashion Week wraps up after the Women's Spring Summer 2010 fashion shows from Italy's fashion designers. The world loves to see what's in store from famous Made In Italy fashion brands like Armani, Bottega Veneta, Cavalli, Dolce & Gabanna, Fendi, Ferre, Ferretti, Gucci, Missoni, Prada, Moschino & Versace.

WebVisionItaly.com brings you Milan Fashion Week, September 2009, where the runway models are strutting the fashion cat walks showing off the latest designs by Made in Italy brands. Here enjoy video of Gianfranco Ferre Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Runway show.



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Milan Fashion Week Spring Summer 2010

Milan Fashion Week wraps up after the Women's Spring Summer 2010 fashion shows from Italy's fashion designers. The world loves to see what's in store from famous Made In Italy fashion brands like Armani, Bottega Veneta, Cavalli, Dolce & Gabanna, Fendi, Ferre, Ferretti, Gucci, Missoni, Prada, Moschino & Versace.

This year's Milan fashion shows do not disappoint as you'll see from the runway video of the Milan Fashion Week fashion shows brought to by WebVisionItaly.com.

This week WebVisionItaly will be bringing you videos of the various Milan Fashion Week fashion shows. Stay tuned!

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Venice acqua alta: "Mose" project to complete 14th C. floodgate vision versus Venetian Lagoon Ecosystem

Venice acqua alta: "MOSE" project to complete 14th C. vision of floodgates to defend lagoon? Will ecosystem survive?

These are questions being asked as one of the world's most ambitious engineering projects gets underway in Venice, which now floods Piazza San Marco 280 days per year.

On September 25th a two-day conference in New York will explore the subject. The conference claims to bring together scientists, academics and "experts" from Italy and the US to discuss M.O.S.E. (Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico, or Experimental Electromechanical Module) — the project intended to protect Venice from floods.

To listen to the story by NPR click: Venice Billion Dollar Floodgates by Silvia Pugioli

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Futurismo! Parma: Magnani Rocca Foundation Parma Italy

Futurismo! celebrating the movement's centenary is running at Parma's Magnani Rocca Foundation until December 8.

Futurismo! showcases masterpieces by every leading figure within the movement. Featuring over 100 items, the exhibition offers visitors an overview of the entire story of the avant-garde movement, from its roots in Divisionism at the end of the 19th century through its creation, rise and eventual fall.

Futurism encompassed painting, sculpture, literature, theater costume and advertising, all of which are covered in the show. On display will be key pieces by pivotal Futurist artists, such as Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and Mario Sironi.

The exhibition also charts the creative development of the movement's written manifestos: from its aesthetic emphasis on dynamism in the early years, through its focus on mechanization in the 1920s, until progressing into Aeropittura art in the 1930s, which translated the movement's passion for machinery and speed into flight and aerial velocity.

Another section looks at the role of Futurist ideas and artwork within advertising, with posters, blurbs and books from the 1920s and 1930s, including a famous advertising manifesto by Fortunato Depero, who designed the small Campari Soda bottles still in use today.

Futurismo! follows a string of events across Italy devoted to the centenary of Futurism, which was officially launched in 1909 with the publication of a manifesto by Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti in French daily Le Figaro.

The Parma event is one of just three large-scale exhibitions providing an overview of the entire Futurism movement.

Futurism's rampant colors and violent energy extolled the merits of a new, technologically advanced age. Art historians have long recognized the part played by the movement in shaking up the sleepy turn-of-the-century art world, according it an honored place between the Impressionists and the Cubists.

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Photo: Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti; Umberto Boccioni - Visioni simultanee and Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Julia Roberts Set For an Authentic Pizza Slice in Naples

Naples is set to serve Julia Roberts one of its best pizzas Monday as the actress films a scene from her new film Eat, Pray, Love. The film is based on Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. Roberts, who is also producing the film, along with Brad Pitt, will enjoy a slice of Pizzeria da Michele Naples pizza with a tourist guide played by Italian actor Luca Argentero.

Crew could be seen moving into the Forcella neighborhood of Naples today. Roberts will bite into her slice of Naples' pizza, the cities most famous food, at the historic Pizzeria da Michele a Forcella pizzeria Monday. Of course, Roberts is no stranger to Pizza movies, as one of her early movies was Mystic Pizza.

Michele a Forcella, founded in 1870, is known for its archetypal 'vera pizza napolitana'.

Taken by the city's lure, the filmmakers have added an extra scene in a church, Pio Monte della Misericordia, housing Caravaggio's famous Sette Opere di Misericordia.

''This film will be very important for promoting the image of Naples and the surrounding region,'' said the director of Campania's film commission, Maurizio Gemma, praising the ''great collaboration'' shown by the local community.


















Asked on her website ''where can I get that pizza you describe in your book,'' Gilbert replies: ''Pizzeria da Michele. Order the double mozzarella. If you go to Naples and don't eat this pizza, please lie to me later and tell me that you did''.

George Clooney Comes Out at Venice Film Festival

George Clooney was spotted arriving in Venice Monday sporting something that's all the rage in Italian trends – TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis. The day before the premiere of his movie, Men Who Stare at Goats, the couple – who landed at Venice's Lido Nicelli Airfield Monday evening – made a grand arrival at the Venice Film Festival following a water taxi ride across the city's lagoon, prompting Italian papers to gush over the pair as the next brad and Angelina.

Clooney, 48, and the woman better known to local media as "La Canalis" or simply "Eli" have been together for the past three weeks, spending time at Clooney's home on Lake Como.

Clooney was introduced to his new girlfriend in Rome. According to actor Alessandro Siani, who costarred with Canalis in a 2006 Italian movie called Christmas in New York, a mysterious car would follow Siani and Eli every day after filming, when Siani accompanied her back to the hotel where they were staying. "One day I finally decided to go over and confront the occupants of the car. I went over and to my surprise, who was sitting in the car? George Clooney!" Siani told an Italian magazine. "This isn't a new fling."

Hugo Chavez Enters Venice Film Festival Lion's Den Attacking Capitalism

As if "Capitalism" didn't already have a bad enough public relations image problem with movies starring Matt Damon and Michael Moore attacking it at this Year's Venice Film Festival now comes Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who received a movie star welcome Monday at the Venice Film festival where he walked the red carpet with director Oliver Stone for the premiere of the documentary "South of the Border."

Hundreds of admirers, some chanting "president, president," gathered outside of the Venice Casino for Higo Chavez's arrival. A few held up Venezuelan flags and a banner in Spanish that read "Welcome, president."

Chavez threw a flower into the crowd and touched his heart, and at one point took a photographer's camera to snap a picture himself. Security outside the Casino was tightened in advance of his arrival with military police checking bags.

Chavez praised Stone's work for depicting what he said were improvements made across Latin America.

"Rebirth is happening in Latin America, and Stone went to look for it and he found it," Chavez told reporters. "With his cameras and his genius, he's captured a good part of that rebirth."

Stone says "South of the Border" is meant to illustrate "the sweeping changes" in South America in recent years as a direct counterpoint to what some say is Chavez's depiction as a dictator by U.S. and European media.

Stone spent extensive time with Chavez for the 75-minute documentary, which is premiering at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, and also interviewed the leaders of Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba and Paraguay, whom Stone said "are on the same page" as Chavez.

"He's a guy you should meet and get to know. ... He's the star of the movie," Stone said in an interview before the premiere.

Stone said he wanted to illustrate changes that put leaders in many South American countries in power who represent the majority of their populations, a movement started with Chavez. He cited Bolivian President Evo Morales, the first Indian to be elected president, and Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a well-known trade unionist.

"If you look now, there are seven presidents, eight countries with Chile, that are really moving away from the Washington consensus control," Stone said. "But in America, they don't get that story."

Stone was invited to Venezuela to meet Chavez for the first time during the Venezuelan leader's aborted rescue mission of Colombian hostages held by FARC rebels. The mission was aborted, but Stone said the Chavez he met was different than some U.S. media depictions.

He returned in January to interview Chavez, and continued on to four other countries to interview Chavez's allies, with Cuban and Ecuadorean leaders joining him in Paraguay.

Stone is best known for his dramas, but he also has made four documentaries, including "Comandante," the 2003 documentary based on a meeting with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, which the director says in many ways led him to Chavez.

"South of the Border" is showing out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, which ends Saturday with the awarding of the Golden Lion.