Tuesday, August 3, 2010

NYT: Is Italy Too Italian?

I just love the headline of this piece. It is an interesting article about a family-run textile business in northern Italy --- one that has a "spa" for all of the threads/yarns that ultimately become yards of fine wool fabrics that are extremely expensive but gorgeous. While the article veers from the actual making of the fabric, it offers interesting tidbits about how things are done in Italy and its current state of affairs. There is even a mention of Santo Versace, the older brother of Gianni Versace, who is now a member of the Italian parliament but was once the business head of the Versace brand (I recently read the book, House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder and Survival --- a good beach read).
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  1. You know - it's not too Italian for the Italians!!! As crazy as that sounds, it's so appropriate and so "Italian"!!! They are a little decadent about this sort of stuff and isn't that what we love about them. After all what would this world be like without a little decadence!!!

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  2. Love the article and the idea of a yarn spa.

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