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Giammetti is the business genius behind the success of fashion designer Valentino. Despite their success, they are constantly looking for ways to expand their $675 million business. They are also involved in AIDS research fundraising.

Graham's sculpture remains oriented towards realistic renditions of female nudes and publicly commissioned projects dedicated to historical figures such as Franklin Roosevelt and Duke Ellington. He married actress Anjelica Huston in May 1992.

Amy speaks and teaches on market viability and sales potential for authors and is currently traveling the country with her two dogs meeting with editors and authors. Just last week, an author sent me a query letter that started with a joke. As Joëlle Delbourgo shares: "The query letter I received from my now long-time author Marilyn Simon Rothstein for her first novel, Lift and Separate, was very funny - but then, she writes novels that are humorous at least on the surface, while also dealing with more serious themes. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: AMY FINE COLLINS PHOTOGRAPH BY JAN WELTERS DIVA INTERVENTION In Beyond the Lights, Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays Noni Jean, a pop diva literally and figuratively caught inside a gilded cage. [...]

Urban Legends IT'S A STREET-PERHAPS IN MANHATTAN, PERHAPS IN LONDON, PERHAPS ONLY IN THE MIND'S EYE-WHERE CLOTHES CREATE THE CLIMATE. MARIO TESTINO SNAPS 16 MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-DRESSED LIST, [...]

VIA TESTINO Mario Testino took this year's Best-Dressed portfolio to the streets, capturing the kind of personal style that is-for the likes of a Helena Bonham Carter or Neil Patrick [...]

Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIGUEL REVERIEGO STYLED BY JESSICA DIEHL AMY FINE COLLINS STAR and STRIPES Margot Robbie was so outrageously seductive as The Wolf of Wall Street 's trophy wife, [...]

Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY SOFIA SANCHEZ & MAURO MONGIELLO AMY FINE COLLINS A PARIS ORIGINAL Eyes are everywhere in I Origins, the arty new science-fiction thriller from writer-director Mike Cahill. They [...]

BABY, IT'S COLE OUTSIDE 'My life constantly surprises me,' says Lily Cole, actress ( Snow White and the Huntsman ), cover model ( Vogue, Playboy ), and brand ambassador (the [...]

Around the time I was completing my art history studies at Columbia University, Geoffrey Beene commissioned me to write the program notes for his runway show at the Pierre. As [...]

LURE OF BROADWAY AMY FINE COLLINS PHOTOGRAPH BY PARI DUKOVIC Backstage with Big Fish: costume designer William Ivey Long tends to leading lady Kate Baldwin, while director-choreographer Susan Stroman rehearses [...]

Christian Lacroix salutes Elsa Schiaparelli at the historic Schiaparelli couture salon on the Place Vendôme, in Paris, with a headshot of the couturière, a swath of shocking-pink duchesse satin, and [...]

Byline: AMY FINE COLLINS BERRY JAM Octogenarian impresario Berry Gordy, whose autobiographical Motown: The Musical opens in April, knows exactly why Valisia LeKae was cast as Diana Ross. 'Valisia is [...]

Byline: AMY FINE COLLINS PHOTOGRAPH BY JASON BELL LAGERFELD'S HIGHLAND FLING 'The Queen of Scotland and the queen of fashion,' proposed Karl Lagerfeld by way of explaining the ghostly, richly [...]

Byline: AMY FINE COLLINS CRISTÃBAL PERSUASION Though the title of Mary Blume's slim biography of grand couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga The Master of Us All (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)is taken from [...]

Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY MARIO SORRENTI AMY FINE COLLINS SMELLING THEM SOFTLY Launched in 1921 and an immediate world-class best-seller, Chanel No. 5 was for Coco Chanel, said her friend Misia [...]

Byline: AMY FINE COLLINS PHOTOGRAPH BY JEAN-PAUL GOUDE ALAÃA'S SWEET BONDAGE Maverick couturier Azzedine Alaïa is a rule breaker, and not just because he has girdled Maillol's colossal sculpture L'Air [...]

Byline: BY AMY FINE COLLINS PHOTOGRAPH BY DONALD MILNE THE SINGING BUTLER DID IT Critics say Jack Vettriano paints brainless erotica. But ever since Vettriano's 1992 canvas The Singing Butler [...]

Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN HUBA AMY FINE COLLINS THREE'S THERAPY If, as Shakespeare noted, 'what's past is prologue,' then that is the theme of both the original, time-tripping Lerner-Lane 1965 [...]

Byline: STYLED BY JESSICA DIEHL Great Inspirations Givenchy had Audrey Hepburn. Saint Laurent relied on Loulou de la Falaise, Betty Catroux, and Paloma Picasso. Now a New Wave of fashion [...]

THE LAST QUEEN OF PARIS Countess Jacqueline de Ribes says she'll never write a memoirno one would believe it. After a cruel W.W. IIera childhood, the swan-necked beauty was taught [...]

Byline: AMY FINE COLLINS PHOTOGRAPH BY TIM WALKER ⢠STYLED BY SARAJANE HOARE LANVIN EXTRAORDINAIRE Exactly a decade ago, Alber Elbaz, then the nervous novice designer for Yves Saint Laurent [...]

V.F.' S BEST-DRESSED POLL GOES DEMOCRATIC Ever since The New York Times published the results of Eleanor Lambert's first International Best-Dressed Poll, on December 27, 1940, the identity of the [...]

Many decades ago, AndrA[c] Malraux predicted, 'From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.' Not even the mythomaniac Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel could have anticipated [...]