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Nicknamed "The Prince of Prints," Italian designer Emilio Pucci is best remembered for swirling, stream-of-consciousness patterns of brilliantly colored geometric shapes.   Following a period marked by dull shades and heavy fabrics, his fun and flirty approach to design often clashed Mediterranean-inspired colors like turquoise, ultramarine...

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The South East of the United States is an interesting area, where the state of Florida – the biggest and the most advanced in terms of economy and trade – is surely one of the most representative. Among its cities, Miami is undoubtedly the main one, because of a prosperous rate of tourism, finance, art, and, more generally, culture. In this pictur...

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By Michelle E. Shaw Italian-made chandeliers, shoes and garden statues are just a few of the things Antonio Allegranzi managed to share with people in America.And it wasn't by chance that Allegranzi moved from his boyhood home in Vicenza, Italy, to Roswell in 1994, family members said. It was always part of the plan. Alessandro Allegranzi, said h...

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By Jesse Blanco I ran into Franco Marra at the grocery store a couple of weeks ago. He was buying a Powerball ticket. Or was it Mega Millions? I'm not sure, but that's not the point.   His plan was pretty simple. He was hopefully buying two tickets to paradise. When I suggested to him that he advertise on my television show if he won, he sa...

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By Linda Sickler Savannah is taking its place as a vocal music destination city. The Savannah VOICE Festival in August was a huge hit, and now fans can look forward to the celebration of Opera America's National Opera Week, which runs from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3.   The events are sponsored by the VOICExperience Foundation, an educational no...

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By Amy Kellogg   Did you ever wonder, why NAPLES, Florida? Or MILAN, Ohio? One Italian journalist turned this puzzle into an enlightening voyage across the United States, from Venice, Calif., to Verona, N.J., and six other towns or cities in-between. Alberto Giuffre, who works for Fox's sister network Sky Italia in Milan, talks abo...

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Buckhead Atlanta really is getting a slice of Rodeo Drive.Italian luxury clothing company La Perla recently submitted plans for a new store in Buckhead -- its first store in Atlanta. La Perla has signed a lease at Buckhead Atlanta, a mixed-use development at Peachtree and East Paces Ferry roads. The nearly 1,900-square-foot store will sit on...

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Pizza, pasta, espresso: the kitchen stylings of the Italian peninsula permeate American food culture. We have a love affair with Italian food – so much so that the overt romanticism behind our pasta and wine can begin to detract from the meal.   Hours of chick flicks and boring dates pile onto the cliché like runaway trains, and our mouths h...

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By Marcy Williams A plant expansion in Cartersville means new jobs for the area. Franco Rossi, the president and CEO of Aquafil USA announces the Italy-based company's investing 25 million dollars to refurbish its main carpet fiber manufacturing plant and add a second facility. Rossi says Aquafil will add up to 100 new jobs, bringing total l...

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ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, and ICE, Italian Trade Agency, will be taking part in the 2014 edition of Techtextil North America that will be taking place from 13-15 May in Atlanta, GA.   The associations have organised a Meeting Point where 13 Italian machinery manufacturers involved in the production o...

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