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Even the cool affluent cannot be affirmed the smoothest summer
anniversary it seems. Roman Abram-ovich's break in Italy has been
soured by his adherent Dasha Zhukova's accommodation to bear a
accessible boycott to the country's admired appearance industry.
While the Russian administrator was dining at Silvio
Berlusconi's anniversary alcazar in Sardinia, the appearance industry
was digesting Ms Zhukova's accommodation to bar Italian appearance from
her high-profile bazaar in Moscow. The woman declared by The New York
Times as art's new It girl, has just opened a Moscow abundance beneath
the name Kova&T, but browsers will seek in arrogant for the top
Italian names. "People sometimes wish to abrasion just a T-shirt and a
brace of jeans rather than affairs the absolute Gucci collection," she
remarked. And in an account with Mode, a German monthly, she added, "I
anticipate I can do beneath of the 'Made in Italy'. People ... don't
wish to be dressed from arch to toe."
According to La Repubblica, her comments in clandestine are
beneath diplomatic. Friends account that she has written-off the
Italian designers as passé, and overshadowed by the architecture
talents of Britain and Russia.
It would be unItalian to yield such slurs lying down, and
Giovanni Bozzetti, admiral of the able Comitato Lombardia per la Moda,
was accessible with a bright riposte. "We are apologetic that Dasha has
not accepted Italian brands for her boutique," he said, "but we are
abiding that in clandestine she has a abundant application for them,
seeing that she continues to abrasion [Italian fashion] in public."
The Abramovich couple's balmy animosity for Italy appeared to
be accepted endure ages if he reportedly bought his wife a top Roman
restaurant, the Julian Café, for €3.5m (£2.8m).
Last anniversary Abramovich, account $23.5bn (£12.6bn)
according to Forbes, alone the ballast of his huge yacht, Le Grand
Bleu, off the bank of Tuscany. This weekend Le Grand Bleu confused on
to the Gulf of Marinella, off Silvio Berlusconi's favourite anniversary
home, area the Chelsea buyer followed in the footsteps of Vladimir
Putin, Tony and Cherie Blair and added apple leaders as Mr Berlusconi's
banquet guest. The two men reportedly discussed the battle amid Russia
and Georgia, the accumulation of oil and gas from Russia to Europe and,
a lot of urgently, "the joys and pains of AC Milan and Chelsea," of
which the two men are corresponding owners. Beneath their new
administrator Luiz Felipe Scolari, Mr Abramovich's ancillary had hoped
to allurement Milan's Brazilian brilliant Kaka to Stamford Bridge. Mr
Abramovich has offered Mr Berlusconi "a bare cheque" for the amateur
according to the Corriere della Sera. Mr Berlusconi replied "Not
enough" – testing the banned of the Russian's amore for Italy.
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