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    Voyage

    “We want to be unique, we don’t care if everyone likes us.” This is the philosophy adopted by the Friuli-born Tiziano Mazzilli and his wife Louise, creators of the label Voyage. Since 1991 they have a store of their own…

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    Veronesi

    Italian jeweler. It has existed for over a century. In 1896, Giulio Veronesi opened his first shop in Bologna in the Via Orefici. In 1920 he moved to the Palazzo Ronzani and, shortly thereafter, he handed over the business to…

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    Vanni

    Carla Vanni. Italian journalist. The editor-in-chief of Grazia, a historic women’s weekly published by Mondadori. Born in Livorno, she took a degree in law, married, with two children: the boy became a lawyer, the girl an architect. She began working…

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    Veneziani

    Jole Veneziani (1901-1988). Italian fashion designer and furrier. She had her atelier at number 8 in Milan’s Via Montenapoleone and from the courtyard a strong scent of caramel would always waft up, a pleasant gift from the Caffè Pasticceria Cova…

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    Victor

    Sally Victor (1905-1977). A particularly innovative American milliner, she made hats shaped like Chinese lanterns, accordions, and even inspired by the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, after studying painting in Paris, she began her career very…

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    Verdura

    (Duke of) Fulco (1898-1978). Italian jeweler. He was Chanel‘s favorite. Palermo-born, in 1927, hoping to become a fashion designer and creator of jewelry, he moved to Paris and then, ten or so years later, he moved on to New York.…

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    Voile

    A semitransparent fabric, very light, made of silk, cotton, wool or artificial fibers. Used from the nineteenth century on, it was relaunched by the nude look.

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    Vitti

    Gemma (1902-1992). Fashion journalist. She began her career, however, as an an illustrator for the Galtrucco shop in Milan. She moved on to journalism when she was hired by the Milanese afternoon daily Il Corriere Lombardo to write a woman’s…

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    Veruschka

    She was the tallest fashion model — 1 meter 85 cm. — ever to tread the boards of the fashion runways. Angular, legs that reach to the sky, she was Richard Avedon‘s favorite model and the ideal subject for the…