Haute Couture: Moving On, Glancing Back
- June 19th, 2008
- Posted by Lee Duffield
A coincidence of events this month has seen France paying its respects to its most-valued of industries, and trade marks…
The names made the parade: Yves St Laurent had died, Carla Bruni, his model (and wife of the President, Nicolas Sarkozy), paid tribute; Ines de la Fressange (picture), much associated with Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel, was presented with the Legion d’Honneur, and a major exhibition was got up in Paris to honour the retirement of one, Valentino. … Read More »
COMMENTARY: Leaders of the European Union at the annual June summit will cut a different figure and may have different tasks set out for them, than they did one year ago.
COMMENTARY: Events in March saw new foreign policy initiatives as Prime Minister Rudd set out for America, China and the EU; a colourful cross-Channel trip by the family Sarkozy; more heat on the stock markets; heat on the dairy industry in Italy, and on a Dutchman who affronts Islamic fundamentalists. 
Italy’s Prime Minister Romano Prodi warned that with disorder in the financial sector it was no time to overturn his government, but failing confidence in him within the governing centre-left coalition, has seen him defeated in a parliamentary vote. 
More trouble for Naples over the growing waste disposal crisis.