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Italian is prevalent in Latin America: the Italian language is spoken abundantly in Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina
Italian has always had a different, distinctive dialect for each Italian city, though a well-known Italian turn of phrase describes it as "the Tuscan tongue in a Roman mouth"
During the Renaissance, Italy was considered the artistic centre of the world for educated European gentlemen, who would be expected to make the 'Grand Tour'
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Giorgio Armani
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Molti sono i musei internazionali che hanno dedicato un tributo a Giorgio Armani, uno dei più grandi stilisti italiani e del mondo che meglio ha rappresentato il made in Italy a partire dalla fine degli anni settanta fino ai giorni nostri.
Fra alcune delle esposizioni più famose delle collezioni di Armani si ricordano quella del Guggenheim a New York, quella alla Neue Nationalgalerie di Berlino e come più recente quella nel museo Royal Academy di Londra. Quest’ultima mostra è passata alla storia per aver esposto la bellezza di 400 capi appartenenti a collezioni autunno-invernali e primaverili-estivi dagli anni 80 fino ai giorni nostri.
Armani lancia la moda della giacca maschile liberata dalla corazza dell'abito borghese vestendo Richard Gere in “American Gigolò” nel 1980. Per la donna idea, invece, una moda senza tempo, riuscendo in un'impresa impossibile quella di femminilizzare un modello androgeno. Il suo tailleur-pantalone da donna manager è diventato negli anni un codice di eleganza internazionale.
Nella sua ultima mostra, dedicata a 30 anni della sua carriera, architettura musiche e manichini sono combinati in modo da mettere in risalto, in ogni sezione, un aspetto particolare del lavoro dello stilista.
Nell’allestire tale mostra “Re Giorgio” gode della collaborazione dei curatori Germano Celant e Harold Koda del museo del costume più importante del mondo, il cui catalogo è firmato da personaggi come Natalia Aspesi, Suzy Menkes e Martin Scorsese. Inoltre l'installazione delle luci è stata realizzata dal regista teatrale Robert Wilson. Infine, l’expò di Londra non vuole mettere in risalto solo il grande talento dello stilista italiano ma anche il suo impatto culturale e sociologo e il rapporto con il cinema. Ciò che ha fatto emergere Armani nel mondo della moda è il fatto di aver saputo svecchiare, eliminare inutili ornamenti, semplificare la moda maschile e femminile in nome di un'essenzialità rigorosa. In pratica ha traslato le regole dello sportswear negli abiti formali e nei vestiti da sera.
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These Italian courses are intended for people who really need to learn Italian to help make that difference in their work. For beginners, it will be useful to learn greetings and basic business etiquette, at higher levels reading and then writing become more important. Typical students include those involved in import/export, international negotiations and acquisitions, jobseekers in multinational companies where an additional language is required, and those working with international colleagues, academia and government. Even on our most basic course for Beginners, students should expect to end the course with basic Telephone Italian and e-mail Italian skills for communications as well as Survival Italian required for short visits to a country.
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A major city in West Yorkshire, Leeds is located on the River Aire and has a population of around 450,000. The third largest city in the UK, Leeds was an agricultural market town during the Middle Ages, growing to a merchant town mainly involved in textiles by the Tudor period. The industrial revolution led to an even more pronounced growth, until Leeds was responsible for making machinery for spinning, machine tools, and steam engines as well as other industries based on coal, textiles, chemicals, leather and pottery. Today Leeds is the largest financial centre outside London, with prevalent railway links to the rest of the country, and a quarter of the workforce are involved in financial and business services.
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