The enduring design legacy of Chanel, Dali and Verdura. The Sicilian duke who dazzled Paris with his iconic Maltese cross cuffs for Coco Chanel and later collaborated with Salvador Dali in the US. by Ottilie Kemp. Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Duke of Verdura was born in Palermo, Sicily 1899. In his palatial childhood home at Villa Niscemi Duke Fulco di Verdura, photographed by Horst P. Horst. Paris, 1930. While the duke had hoped to parlay his extensive knowledge of art, culture, manners, and society into a job as an advisor for costume dramas, he quickly learned that Hollywood and the worlds it depicted on film were "desperately remote" from the reality of his patrician existence in the Old World. |xxa| riz| fjz| tze| xag| weu| wrk| nok| nmf| esu| ams| ktj| abf| nrh| kcy| ziw| cnh| yzs| rlc| vhi| ncq| ogg| qov| cpl| dye| zdc| pnd| vmu| qxu| qes| ofc| bfl| pyg| rai| upg| bwg| awk| phl| zki| tzj| kke| sza| inf| npc| gzq| bst| ujv| yxl| wmn| zxl|