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Features the Manhattan penthouse of German fashion designer Wolfgang Joop. Essence of modern urbanity; Rigorous renovation masterminded by New York architect Brian Kaye and Texas-born decorator Kevin Gray, who works with Joop's Hamburg architect, Peter Preller; Distinctly modern apartment with an air of serenity and a sense of humor; Remarkable 1950s French furniture; Joop's passion for about the extraordinary wood furniture and sculpture of Alexandre Noll.

Describes how, when he sets foot in his Montmartre apartment, Christian Louboutin indulges the same taste for fantasy he displays in his shoe designs. Wedding of playfulness and precision; Professional career; Living room formal in arrangement but playful in substance; Fantasy as the mother of invention; Details.

Presents a photo essay of Linda Allard's Connecticut country home. Palladian-inspired villa; Architect brother David Allard; Designer Stephen Mallory; Symmetry of the architecture; The collaborative design process; Landscape designer Bob Zion; Allard's `Smalltown, USA' heritage; Details; More.

Features the dream house of Giorgio Armani in Pantelleria. Brief profile of Armani; Architect Gabriella Guintoli.

Looks at the New York apartment of fashion designer Todd Oldham and his partner Tony Longoria. It's filled with thrift shop treasures and yard sale finds that inspire Oldham's fashions. Paintings; Special finds; Combining junk and luxury; New fashions.

Focuses on the Tribeca work space/showroom of designers Manolo and Arnaldo Ferrara. 1989 opening of Silencio, an East Village New York restaurant where everything is for sale, including Ferrara's furniture and Manolo's hats and accessories; Manolo's venture from millinery into what he calls `ready couture,' Details.

Profiles Italian fashion designer Franco Moschino. Couture shop on Milan's Via Sant' Andrea; Ceci n'est pas une boutique; Provocative clothing; Constant state of improvisation; Details.

Features designer Rachel London's line of flower-bedecked dresses. Stint at Norma Kamali's store; Designer for the band Blind Kolor; Clients such as Madonna, Goldie Hawn, Naomi Campbell.

Discusses how Italian photographer Fabrizio Ferri bought over 60 acres in the nearly deserted interior of the island of Pantelleria. Feature on the reverent restoration of the property, which contained the abandoned ruins of two small villages.

Profiles Han Feng, a thirty-year-old-designer designer who grew up in the picturesque Chinese city of Hangzhou. How she elevates the age-old elegance of silk into ethereal drama; Signature hand pleating; Poised to take on her rising stardom; Details.

Describes how fashion designer Cynthia Rowley has sewn 1940s tablecloths into bell-bottoms, circle skirts, rompers, and other samples for her spring/summer collection. How she has added jolts of whimsy to her designs in seasons past; Details.

Features the decorated dressing room of Faith Prince. Donation of the cost of labor to the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS; Co-workers who decorated the room.

Reports that Nina Ricci recently enlisted Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti to package its first cosmetics and skin-care line, Le Teint Ricci. Comment from Gilles Fuchs, chairman of Nina Ricci; Organic molded-plastic forms in sensual pastels with swirls of burnished gold; Details.

Features `Women's Work,' a series of community-based art projects in San Francisco and Chicago launched by Liz Claiborne, Inc. Aims of projects; Artist's collaboration in exposing domestic violence; Twenty-four hour crisis hotline; Children's book about working mothers.

Relates how the Dominique Aurientis houseware line was created. Handblown glass plates; Wrought-iron tables and chairs.

Offers a look at some of the limited number of Victorian copper pots and pans now available at Bulgari stores in New York and Rome. The pans come from Buckingham Palace and have been restored to their original luster.

Shows some of the jewelry and objects designed by the late Sicilian duke Fulco di Verdura. Pieces produced from Verdura's original sketches are still being made and sold by the present owner of the Verdura business, jewelry connoisseur Ward Landrigan.