Venturini

Silvia Venturini Fendi , head of the accessories department at Italian fashion house Fendi, a unit of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, says bespoke garments, with their fine materials and high-quality linings and stitching, are meant to hold up for years, the antithesis of faddish "fast fashion."

Custom Tailors Enjoying a Boom Nathania Zevi 2011

Take the comment on fashion vs. style from style icon Joy Venturini Bianchi of San Francisco's Helpers House of Couture, which benefits the developmentally disabled: Currently, we are inundated by images in magazines, television programs, and events that are devoted to fashion.

Lisa Mirza Grotts: Dressed for Success: Style vs. Trends Lisa Mirza Grotts 2011

He and Venturini were contemplating a second sports zine, this one dedicated to the Italian soccer player Mario Balotelli, and Venturini wrote earlier from Milan that she wasn't opposed to a project focusing on another NBA player this season—as long as there is one.

One Baller's Biggest Fan Ben Cohen 2011

"I think they are doing the right thing," says Francesco Venturini , chief executive officer of Enel Green Power North America Inc., a unit of Italy's Enel SpA that is building a hybrid solar-geothermal plant at the base of the Stillwater Mountains east of Fallon.

Energy Boomtown Tries Not to Blow It Jim Carlton 2011

One night last June, Marcopoulos and Camilla Venturini, his 23-year-old Italian art director, walked into a Park Slope sports bar for Game 6 of the NBA Finals and watched Dallas clinch its series against the Miami Heat.

One Baller's Biggest Fan Ben Cohen 2011

Venturini was raised as a swimmer in a small town in Northern Italy, and her time in New York working with Marcopoulos coincided with the NBA playoffs.

One Baller's Biggest Fan Ben Cohen 2011

Neither Marcopoulos nor Venturini was born in the U.S., and they had no connection to the city of Dallas.

One Baller's Biggest Fan Ben Cohen 2011

But the rest—the refined but relaxed manners of the men folk; the understated décor of their homes; Ms. Swinton's designer clothes, by Jil Sander and Silvia Venturini Fendi, an associate producer of the film and herself an heiress to a design dynasty; the dinner tables set with hand-sewn linens, antique china and colored crystal, and surrounded by the entire extended family—could not shout "Made In Italy" any louder.

Touching the Fabric of Italian Life Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011

"I hope he doesn't think I'm a stalker," Venturini wrote in an email before Chandler learned of the zine.

One Baller's Biggest Fan Ben Cohen 2011

He posed for photos while reading the zine and called Marcopoulos, who was in Italy on a video shoot with Venturini.

One Baller's Biggest Fan Ben Cohen 2011