Author(s): Emeline Fort

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Milan and Paris are the capital of the fashion world. However, Italy has other major cities very high on the fashion scale including Rome, Florence, Turin, Naples and Venice. Most of the older Italian couturiers are in Rome. The first Italian luxury brand was the Florentine Salvatore Ferragamo but Gucci is the greatest-selling Italian fashion brand, and third greatest in the world, with worldwide sales of $7.158 billion dollars. Italian fashion designers described in the book also include Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Emilio Pucci, Roberto Cavalli, Versace, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Prada, Loro Piana, Ermenegildo Zegna, Laura Biagiotti, Iceberg, Roberta di Camerino, Trussardi.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.