If we loose in a shop I bought the dozen

Krizia is a brand of Italian fashion style vibrionnant. As the patroness. Blue eyes, cut square, black dressed, covered with silver jewellery large it created, lilac Sandals on the feet, Maruccia Mandelli is imperial. Patient step for a penny. Disliking talk figures, angry with the dates - especially that of his birth-, she works as a frenzied until eleven o'clock in the evening. With its flow of submachine gun that mixes French and Italian, she summarized fifty-year career: "I wanted to become a school mistress." My parents could not pay me studies. Then, I was more than an obsession: give them the means to live.

Since childhood, Maruccia dressing her dolls and engaged in knitting, which earned him a first order at the age of 18 years. "The Agnona mark asked me on the theme of the wool dresses." I drew a sheep. An English client was loved and wanted me to give a suite. I have followed up with a cat, a goat and the Black Panther, naturally. "Emblem was born. Maruccia, claiming a feminism of left, reads Plato speaks of a certain Krizia. She borrows her name. "In my time, chic women is changed ten times a day and dressed couture." The apparel was invented. A friend lent me his apartment in Milan. I have used to buy a sewing machine. I learned alone and I made a small collection.

His suitcase under the arm, Maruccia plays the VRP. Luck smiled at him. With a credit and the help of a professional representative, then a place to dream found by his brother-in-law, it starts its activity in Milan, via Manin, she has not left since. Today, the Milanese hotel houses in a black and white décor the showroom and a theatre that serves as framework to concerts or political debates as well involving the Ostpolitik of Rome Francesco Rutelli as writer Umberto Ecco or Paul Newman.

In fashion, success was often born of complicity. In 1960, Maruccia wife Aldo Pinto, a young Egyptian emigrated at the head of society Krizia, he opens the doors of America. It falls well. Maruccia just embroidering his jacket "grain of grape" which very quickly became a hit. Bendel, the very chic store New York, he devotes its showcases, follow other aficionados of fashion. As Neiman Marcus, the famous owner of stores, giving dinners to present the new Italian pertussis in the all-New York. The parades are cycled through, attracting more and more world. "I have innovated with shows shifted, dressing dolls or metal pipes!" Cheaper than a true podium.

A grand hotel luxury in Barbados

There is no dauphin (e) to Maruccia Mandelli, who begs the issue of his estate - eternal dilemma of Italian café crystallized around a charismatic leader. Yet, of famous stylists made their classes at Krizia, among which Alber Elbaz and Jean-Paul Knott. "Were their creations do not, not selling enough commercial, says.". In fact, I work as a team for 20 licenses of derivatives and Accessories products: jeans, watches, sunglasses, leather goods, perfumes. Arthur de Villepin, the son of the French Prime Minister, is the model of our collection for the man. "Maruccia Mandelli has extended its activity beyond the world of fashion since the first, it opened, a grand hotel luxury in Barbados, the famous K Club. Today, the Group Krizia (400 million dollars in sales in 2005) storefront avenue Montaigne in Paris, and has five other shops own in the world.

But Kryzia work especially hard at the Japan. "We have 40 shops in partnership in Tokyo and two hundred throughout the country." "Metro stations are constellées poster Krizia", is rengorge the carrying Maruccia. The Japan is a blessing for those who love both look these extraordinary lacquered boxes inlaid mother-of-Pearl. One of them draws the gaze, huge and heavy: "A Chinese imperial treasure that I found at...". Paris! ", Jubilee by lifting the lid on the inner sculptures. You discover these wonders in his Milanese duplex of Porta Romana, his neighbourhood. The apartment, broad but wire metal red closed it typically uses to make coats. "My parents have lived here." I just redo paint and I have benefited to get rid of the overflow.

Theatrical scenery in the image of Maruccia

While shoving happily olive trees, roses, lavender, Rosemary and camellias in pots on the furnished terraces, Interior, theatrical décor, is the image of Maruccia. The staircase ramp, for example, a tracery of stems and leaves in pink copper imagined by the sculptor Lalanne come on-site take action. "I would have loved a minimalist apartment, but I do not have the courage to separate me from my parents Gallé vases collection." If you touch it, I kill! I am ultra-maniaque. The worst failure on Earth.

Invading, books flow in rivers in his apartment. The new library was built in the theatre with giant screen and Charles Eames chairs. Storage, assigned to real librarians, favours a classification by publishing houses and colours. Tight on a shelf, boxes filled with spools of silk alongside Venetian vases with the reasons of paper binding. "I've swept the lot." I have the time to nothing. If we loose in a shop, I bought the dozen. Therefore, I chose Crystal glasses before noticed the Fund that I had to nine thousand euros! "Three large 19th-century portraits purchased in Florence, including a child on a bike wearing a spencer where the word"Speranza"("hope"), is sewn from always follow Maruccia Mandelli. They are mounted on sliding panels. The art books arranged in Star stormed the coffee table in the living room. The Office informed of Ingo Maurer lamp by pinhead, also staggers under piles of books that she wishes to read!

On the walls, a Japanese screen Golden enhanced fine gold glycines and poppies nearby with a drawing of Matta obtained for a handful of cherries twenty years ago. Alongside hearts painted by Din, "my unique wedding gift, we did had accused person". And then this beautiful canvas of Fontana that sleeps Tadini red-headed man and paint constructivist Koudriachov. A bouquet of vases Tiffany gold and iridescent illuminates the angle of the pipe. Tiffany, is the passion of our host also accumulated the famous lamps-stained glass of the mark, "the calyces of Tiffany vases come here emmaillotés in armoured boxes." They are expensive, there are more. In my house of Sardinia, I have five still more rare blue.

The fetish Panther stands everywhere, as the snakes - dreamlike Daum lamp mounted on a royal cobra bronze. "It gives me polar bears and sea lions, rhinos and elephants, animal glasses pulp of Walter." Even this Grasshopper giant makes me fear! "Another collection, fragile and light, lives in the House: a good thirty vases Lalique Crystal carefully aligned in the alcove. The piece is soft, color fresh butter, a large pan of shaved velvet warmed bed Garnet and emerald. On a lectern based mirrors hand in money, including one of Japanese origin with its red favour. Here, Maruccia Mandelli hung views of Bergamo low pillows. There on a hill the House where she was born.