"You can't find it here," she'd say of her body-hugging magenta dress with all the cutouts, encapsulating the entirety of these United States of America in a syllable — "here" — and a shrug. "It's from Italy." Some of her clothes were produced by big name designers, while others bore Italian-named labels we'd never heard of. But who made the garments mattered less than where in the world they came from. Because Italy. Italy. I feel expensive just saying the country's name.

Online shopping, of course, has proven a great equalizer for luxury fashion lovers. Gone are the days where filling out an enviable closet necessitated some laser-focused globetrotting. Because internet. Here, business partners Diego Abba and Raffaele Giovine saw an opportunity. Italist, the website touts, is "the first online marketplace fully dedicated to Italian luxury multi-brand retailers."

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