Tag archives: Valentino

Fashionista Alert! My Roman Holiday, Part 3
By Leslie Westbrook   |   December 28, 2021

Pucci, Gucci, Prada, and Armani. Valentino, Versace, what will you score?  Dolce & Gabbana? Shop the Via Condotti? Marni or Buccellati? More, more, more! Just two and a half days into my Rome explorations and I was beginning to know, understand, and fall in love with one of Europe’s most beautiful capitals spread over 500 […]

Up for Auction
By Richard Mineards   |   November 19, 2020

An old New York friend, former model and socialite Barbara Allen de Kwiatkowski, who left us far too early, dying of natural causes aged 69 in June, is having her possessions sold by Christie’s in Manhattan in a total of eight sales over the next few months. Barbara, whom I first met when she was […]