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Designer Donatella Versace greets the audience after a June show in Milan. Photo: AFP Fashion week roars into Milan on Wednesday with hotly anticipated shows from fresh talent as well as from luxury titans including Moschino and Armani, who are battling for their share of a rebounding market. Gucci kicks off the six days of catwalk strutting with mighty momentum at its Italy-based house, , ...ادامه مطلب

The snowshoe was just a few thousand years older than thought. Photo: Roman Clara/Bolzano regional govementA snowshoe discovered over a decade ago in Italy’s Dolomite mountains and previously thought to belong to a nineteenth century cattle farmer is actually nearly six thousand years old, it has been revealed. The shoe was found in 2003 in the melting snow of Gurgler Eisjoch glacier by Simone Bartolini, a cartographer for the Military Geographic Institute in Florence. Bartolini was mapping the Austrian-Italian border in South Tyrol, a German-speaking area of northe Italy.  Assuming the shoe to be about a hundred years old, Bartolini displayed the shoe in his office as a memento. He only realised that it was much older than previously thought after discussing it with an archaeologist colleague.  Radiocarbon dating by two separate labs now shows the shoe dates from 3800-3700 BC. This makes it up to 600 years older than the famous ice man Ötzi, who was found in 1991 just seven,shoe lays,shoe layaway,shoelaces styles,shoe layers,shoe layout,shoelaces online,shoelaces tricks,shoelaces models,shoe lays design,shoe lays tie ...ادامه مطلب

Models present creations by Fendi during a fashion show at the Trevi Fountain in Rome on Thursday. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPShimmering models wearing the latest creations by Fendi appeared to walk on water Thursday at a fairytale show in Rome's Trevi fountain to mark the luxury fashion house's 90th anniversary. Above the sparkling waters of the Baroque fountain, models wearing hand-painted dresses in pale pink, blue and cream, adoed with hand-stitched flowers or starlit scenes, glided across a transparent catwalk in the basin. The soft, luxurious collection of 46 outfits was inspired by Danish fairytale illustrator Kay Nielsen, who painted colour plates for the book Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen in 1924 and also later worked for Disney, including on sequences of the film Fantasia. Glittering evening gowns with slits up the sides transformed their wearers into mode-day Hansel and Gretels, the reflection of lights scintillating in the turquoise waters echoing the shine of pebbles glinting in the moonlight in the fairytale. Dresses were nipped in at the waist or featured a bell skirt, the house's trademark fur coat made an appearance in lynx, but what wowed the 200 exclusive guests was a patteed cape, in grey silk, which opened at both the front and back. Bags looked like they were made of fur but were actually tiny pieces of silk, sewn together to look like snakeskin. As the models, including Americans Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid, wound up their catwalk, designer Karl Largerfeld, wearing his trademark gloves, came out to take a bow along with the Italian house's accessories designer Silvia Venturini Fendi. Coins in the fountain Reaching the middle of the glass bridge he threw three coins over his shoulder into the fountain with a grin -- a tradition that is said to ensure a retu to the eteal city. The fountain, made famous by a scene in Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" in which Anita Ekberg wades through its pristine waters, was restored last year , ...ادامه مطلب