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Article: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CAVALLI.(fashion designer Roberto Cavalli)(Brief Article)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- April 13, 2001
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NEW YORK -- "I hate it here," said designer Roberto Cavalli, dashing across the street from Bergdorf Goodman to his Fifth Avenue showroom, during one of New York's recent, ridiculous rainfalls.
"Too many cigarettes last night," he complained, before lighting what was clearly not the first of the next day. If there was a smell worse than that of stale cigarettes, it would be their smell on a rainy day.
"I hate it in New York that no one can smoke anywhere," he said, expressing a common sentiment among Italian designers.
So the designer smoked away, doing things the Cavalli way, much as he hopes New Yorkers and those in the rest of the country ...