A Partnership Made in Heaven.(Dolce and Gabbana)

Newsweek International, February, 2003 by Thomas, Dana

Inside the new Dolce & Gabbana store on Milan's fashionable Corso Venezia, a group of trendy twentysomethings sit around a sleek cafe, throwing back espresso. Across the hall, a Sicilian barber gives a dapper businessman a quick trim in a neo-deco shop. Oh, yes, and there are racks of sharp pinstripe suits, straw linen blazers and alligator loafers, too. Lifestyle-theme stores have been popular in fashion retailing for a decade or so, but Dolce & Gabbana really upped the ante last month when it opened its three-story menswear emporium in a 19th- century Milan palazzo, replete with polished walnut armoires, rococo inlaid parquet and black Murano glass chandeliers. "We want it to be a place where people can come together, not just to shop," says designer Domenico Dolce,...

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