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![What's a Diva to Do?](https://encyclopediaoftheexquisite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Lina-330x300.png)
11/08
What’s a Diva to Do?
Reading about the great Italian ceramics designer Piero Fornasetti and his series of 350 plates all based on the same beautiful face, I got curious about his inspiration, the legendary beauty and turn-of-the-century Italian opera star Lina Cavalieri (1874-1944). (You can…
![M. & Mme. Pink](https://encyclopediaoftheexquisite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Schiaparelli-gown-150x150.png)
03/31
M. & Mme. Pink
When I first started working in fashion, I couldn’t spell the word fuchsia for the life of me. Even with spell check. Even with a dictionary. That is, until one lucky day when a gruff senior editor at WWD explained…
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