Men in Coats: Looking Good in Piazza San Giovanni di Dio

I have fond memories of Saturday mornings more than a half century ago, when my father would take me "downtown"--downtown, that is...

Original Fake: Store-window takes on Originality

It's getting harder and harder to be "original."  Andy Warhol made that clear in the early 1960s, when he capitulated to capit...

intimissimi: Too Much Intimacy

What are these Italian guys doing?  They're doing what I'm doing: hanging out in front of i ntimissimi  while their wives shop for b...

Fashion Extra! Color of the Moment is...ORANGE

We would never claim that the arbiters of fashion in Milan, Paris, and New York look to provincial, bureaucratic Rome for hints of what'...

Fashion's Night Out: Photos from Rome

Nudo in Vetrina (nude in store window), as Eve at Gattinoni on Via Sistina.  Object of the Gaze. Our new friend Giorgio, the London School o...

Steppin' Out

We found these long-haired, leggy young ladies on the back side of Rome's new MAXXI gallery, headed for the front entrance--about a quar...

Fashion and Fascism: The Sordid Story of Dior's John Galliano

John Galliano We were intrigued by Rhonda Garelick's op-ed piece in the March 7 New York Times on the unsavory conduct of John Galliano...

Architecture is Back

A fascinating June show on Rome's architectural heritage at the Tempio di Adriano, due passi from the Pantheon, with contributions by f...

La Bella Figura: the Farm-Hand "Look"

In our relentless search for the latest in Eternal City ephemera, we offer the farm-hand or farmer's daughter "look," observed...

Purple Rain - in Rome

After our morning coffee, we crossed the Circ. Gianicolense, temporarily abandoning our proletarian neighborhood for the upscale allure of v...