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, fondly remembers the first time her mother met Chanel that February. hile names like Gucci, Fendi, Versace are definitive heavy hitters, as a whole, there have been growing concerns over the future of Italian fashion. In an article by The Business of Fashion, we learned Hermes Lindythat while Italy is known for making beautiful garments and exceptional leather goods, it hasn't been setting the best example when it came to fostering young talent. stifying her past) that in her final years, Chanel befriended the privileged and unguarded artist Marion Pike, a third-generation Californian who had already traveled throughout much of Europe by age 16 and studied at Stanford University. Pike meticulously preserved telegrams, clothing, photographs and other mementos of the duo’s time together. These keepsakes, along with five acrylic portraits of Chanel, are the subject of the exhibition “Coco Chanel: A New Portrait by Marion Pike,” which opens tomorrow at the Fashion Space Gallery in London.

 he usual crowd at the movie theater and host your own premieres at home? Prima Cinema has an answer, with the minor requirement of $35,000 (and a few other details) to get your home theater ready for Hermes Steve Bagfirst-run movies. Just as we'd heard when it first popped up a couple of years ago, that large setup fee buys the Cinema Player, a rack-mountable box loaded with a 2TB hard drive and enough DRM to keep the studios happy, plus a wired fingerprint reader used to ensure the owner's identity. Movies download automatically to its hard drive in the background so they're already there when the owner chooses to unlock them for viewing. That privilege costs $500 ($600 for 3D), good for o Marion Pike/London College of Fashion Though she famously declined to have her portrait done by fellow artist friends, including Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, Chanel invited Pike to her atelier at 31 rue Cambon a mere three days after the two met. So pleased was Chanel with Pike’s paintings

 — the first of which was made in 1967 when Chanel was 8 But, times they are a-changin'. Luxury holding company Kering — linked to boldfaced labels like Gucci and Bottega Veneta — announced the launch of an Hermes Shopping Bag internship program with Vogue Italia in September. “One way of keeping Made in Italy," François-Henri Pinault told WWD , "is to have very strong talent scouting and recruiting in that country." And, now, reflecting on this past Milan Fashion Week which recently wrapped, let's just say there's plenty to be optimistic and excited about when it comes to Italy's design scene. “Coco was doing a fitting and did not acknowledge her presence,” she said. “For over an hour, my mother stood in a doorway sketching the scene. Finally, Coco came over, asked to see the sketch pad and then said, ‘You have the hand of a real artist.’ She then took the scarf she was wearing, put it around my mother’s neck and added, ‘Please come to lunch tomorrow. We are going to become great friends.’ My mother kept the scarf for the rest of her life.”