Sparkling in the rain: Milan’s street style wannabes

Cyprien Richiardi did not have an invitation for the Giorgio Armani catwalk show on Monday but that did not make it any less of a must-keep appointment for him on a dank, drizzly morning. “When there is fashion you have to be on the spot, even if it is raining you have to come out,” Richiardi told AFP in a brief break from strutting his stuff up and down the closed-off road outside the Teatro Armani for the benefit of a posse of paparazzi. With his military-style greatcoat and his gold-sprayed basketball boots, Richiardi is doing well in the attention-grabbing stakes, his electic look completed by a dandyish bowtie and a flamboyant headcovering that looks like a nod to his African heritage.

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Milan Fashion Week: the Giorgio Armani show in pictures

Milan Fashion Week closed Monday, February 29 with a catwalk show from Giorgio Armani. The Italian fashion house previewed an elegant collection for autumn/winter 2016, with a line of understatedly stylish designs mainly in black and a few shades of gray. There were discreet touches of color here and there, but looks were kept simple and refined.

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Zalando targets logistics as mobile fashion sales grow

By Emma Thomasson BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe's biggest dedicated online fashion retailer Zalando will invest more in logistics this year in its pursuit of market share and expects sales to rise by as much as a quarter. Launched in Berlin in 2008, Zalando serves customers in 15 European markets with more than 1,500 brands, with big names such as Gap, Banana Republic and Topshop added in the last year. ASOS reported European Union sales rose 29 percent in September to December.

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Academy Award winner Sofia Coppola to direct first opera in Rome

Academy Award winner Sofia Coppola will make her operatic debut in May, directing a new production of Giuseppe Verdi's romantic tragedy “La Traviata”, Rome's opera house said on Monday. Coppola, who won the gold statuette for the screenplay of the 2003 film “Lost in Translation”, was invited to direct the production by its patron, fashion designer Valentino Garavani, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma said in a statement. Garavani asked the American film director and producer to swap screen for stage after watching her 2006 historical drama “Marie Antoinette”, in which the theater said she balanced “the classic and the modern”.

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Academy Award winner Sofia Coppola to direct first opera in Rome