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...She returned to Milan in 2012 to join the Alta Moda team at Dolce & Gabbana, where she stayed for a decade....
...Alta Mora’s silky reds — delicate and precise with light tannins — are archetypal of the region; its whites, which Alberto says are more difficult to perfect, offer notes of citrus and pear, showing no signs...
...Dressed all in black, he sits on a black leather sofa against a wall covered in a geometric black-and-white print that makes my eyes swim....
...Alta Moda’s client roster has swelled from 100 to 750 over the past decade, Stefano Gabbana added, plus another 500 who buy from the men’s equivalent, Alta Sartoria....
...Right: Dolce & Gabbana diamond, enamel, rhodolite garnet, coloured-sapphire, emerald, peridot and Sciacca coral transformable Alta Gioielleria Hand earrings Santi Jewels diamond and emerald Chevron earrings...
...Days begin with yoga and meditation, followed by monastery visits, picnics, biking and white-water rafting along the Zanskar and Indus rivers, and of course walking....
...Some of the biggest shows included Dolce & Gabbana’s four-day Alta Moda extravaganza in Sicily and Chanel’s three-day Métiers d’Art event in Dakar, Senegal....
...Thin, barely visible white streaks along panel borders would have reflected candlelight as the priests paced the corridor, amping up the atmosphere, says Cuzzovaglia....
...Eventually De Sole found a white knight investor in François-Henri Pinault, the French founder of what is now luxury group Kering. “Pinault was quick....
...They brought red riojas spanning from 1945 to 1982 over to the London flat of the editor of the World of Fine Wine, Neil Beckett, along with some even older whites....
....£11.95 The Wine Society Encostas da Pedra Alta 2019 Douro Branco 12.5%Part barrel-fermented, wild yeast Douro blend. Chock full of tangy character and still youthful and vibrant at two years old....
...Ditto those who attended Alta Moda....
...Sommelier Goran Krstanovic has designed an engaging list with all the grande marque French whites and exceptional smaller estates that a dream lunch at the beach might demand....
...(Also: capers, growing wild everywhere, and Malvasia vines, made into gorgeous whites.)...
...White & Case has hired Katie Hicks and Tim Sheddick as partners in London. They join from Shearman & Sterling....
...But the situation has prompted the White House to open a debate over the merits of companies making such payments....
...They never stopped staging physical fashion shows during the Covid-19 crisis, hosting a catwalk event for their men’s collection in Milan in July, and for their extravagant Alta Moda and Alta Sartoria lines...
...Off-White, whose founder Virgil Abloh has been in Illinois for most of the pandemic, is not planning to show this season....
...In the high‑jewellery workshop of Dolce & Gabbana, minutes from the centre of Milan, 40 or so goldsmiths and jewellers in couture-made white lab coats are silently hunched over their benches, so engrossed...
...Snowpine Lodge, the oldest of all Alta’s lodges, has undergone a $50m rebuild to emerge as a grand six-storey resort-hotel, with 68 bedrooms (complete with white robes and L’Occitane products), heated outdoor...
...Another day we encountered a tribe of white-whiskered spider monkeys, swinging through the canopy like a circus act, their tail serving as a fifth limb....
...If I make a plain cashmere sweater at Off-White, it doesn’t have a twist in it. The brand has no history....
...We are docked at Havnnes, a 19th-century trading post of white-painted houses and fishing boats....
...Its decision drew a rebuke from US President Donald Trump, who likened the move to waving the “white flag”....
...Out stepped the diminutive Paola Binarelli, wearing a floppy white hat and a T-shirt that said, “Keep Calm and Eat Bistecca.” “I’m not the chef,” she insisted, “I’m the cook.”...
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