PARIS — Georges Pretre, who conducted renowned orchestras from Vienna to Milan and New York and beyond and was instrumental in Maria Callas’ singing career, has died. He was 92.
The 16th annual international conference of the University Museums and Collections (Umac) in Milan, Italy, recently afforded international delegates the chance to tour one of the world’s truly alpha cities, a heritage showcase and an artistic hub.
From Feb. 8-10, Milan became the ultimate hotspot as chefs and food aficionados gathered to attend the annual international chef congress tagged as the Identità Golose. Held at MiCo Milano Congressi hall, the anticipated event was reminiscent of the recent Madrid Fusion. It was of a smaller scale but equally grand, prestigious and star-studded nonetheless.
See Cuba before it changes. Check out the Expo in Milan. And if you’re heading to New York City to see the view from 1 World Trade Center’s observatory (scheduled to open late spring), take the subway to Queens and see if you can figure out why it topped Lonely Planet’s “best in the U.S.” destinations for 2015.
In her quest to excel as jewelry designer, Janina Garcia-Santos went to Istituto di Moda Burgo, Milan, after taking a course in Accredited Jewelry Profession from Gemological Institute of America.
Milan is Italy’s finance and fashion capital, with hundreds of billions of euros invested on the Italian Stock Exchange and tens of billions more spent yearly in the city’s luxury boutiques.
Italo Zuchelli, creative director for Calvin Klein menswear, invented his own version of the layered look by combining sportswear with formal attire to create a 24-hour look for the winter 2014.
Don’t think the Prada man is absent-minded just because one point of his shirt collar is tucked into the sweater, while the other is out.
Caravaggio was notorious for his brawling, so it might be fitting that a claim by two Italian art historians that they discovered as many as 100 drawings by the painter in his boyhood has sparked an art world uproar.
These are happy boys. Happy that it’s summer. Happy to be Sicilian. A live band in traditional costume, complete with mandolins and tambourines, accompanied the 73 men and boys who walked down the runway of the Dolce&Gabbana venue in downtown Milan, wearing yesteryear combinations of black and white, a reference by the designing duo to their Sicilian roots.
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