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On the shirt: the gentleman of Italian style has had his own way of wearing the timepieces of his collection – Omega Seamaster Ploprof, Hamilton Pulsar…
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G.ianni Agnelli must have been a busy man. Main shareholder of Fiat; owner of The print a you Corriere della Sera, but also of Juventus, he had to manage his entrepreneurial empire, while taking care of his (many) lovers, his (big) network and his (flamboyant) style. The “cheetah of Turin” – one of his many nicknames – was known for his own contempt, its randomness. Deliberately ignoring the rules of style, he made the art of assortment, a priori unlikely, a signature.
Models, cuts, dresses, nothing was out of reach, as long as they were perfectly modeled (or deliberately not!) By the hands of the best tailors. There is no shortage of examples of “cleverly thought out taste errors”. There is, of course, the cr …
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