Famous Stilettos, Papal Fashion Inspiration: Italian Fashion News

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I’m going to acknowledge right up front that I’m completely biased here, but I think Italy is the food and fashion capital of the world (not necessarily in that order). While I can talk with some authority about food, in that I eat it pretty much every day, I’m not exactly a fashion expert. I know what I like, but that’s the extent of it. And frankly, most of the stuff that trots down runways is so over-the-top that no one would wear it (the secret is that most of the time, no one is actually meant to wear it). I think I’m going to have to take some crash course in fashion if the husband and I make it to Italy, especially if we end up in/near Milan…

In the meantime, here are a few fashion-related news snippets I found out and about:

Italy’s police force wears uniforms designed by Armani, so why shouldn’t the forest rangers ride Ducatis?

Italians want to look stylish, but they don’t necessarily want to be the ones making the stylish clothing. Tailors in Florence, in a partnership with London’s Savile Row, are trying to change that.

What to get for the fashionista who has everything? How about Marilyn Monroe’s Ferragamos from Some Like It Hot? And they’ll only set you back €1,800.

You might have thought that the fashion world and the world of the Vatican would never cross paths. At least not in a friendly way. You’d have been wrong.