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"  If living la dolce vita truly is an art form, then Diane von Furstenberg is a modern master. New York City&amp;#039;s downtown fashion legend took over Florence&amp;#039;s largest private garden last June to present La Petite Valise, a travel-ready resort collection (hitting stores now) that had an uncommonly good-looking entourage of celebrities, Italian socials, family members, and longtime friends captivated under the early summer sky. Guests were greeted with flutes of prosecco while a string quartet played Pachelbel&amp;#039;s Canon in D major and von Furstenberg reflected on the symbolically charged homecoming. &amp;quot;It was indeed in a factory outside Florence that I had my first dresses made and the wrapdress would be born,&amp;quot; she recalled at the party. It was also an emotional reunion between the designer and Bruna Sequalino, the wrap&amp;#039;s original patternmaker, whom von Furstenberg hadn&amp;#039;t seen in nearly 30 years. There was no lack of familiar faces either, from model Natalia Vodianova (who both opened and closed the runway show) to wrapdress groupie Eva Longoria Parker. &amp;quot;Diane is an icon who keeps fashion magical, exciting, and feminine,&amp;quot; Longoria said. Not to mention well fed: After the show, hundreds of high heels ascended the Giardino Torrigiani hilltop for an alfresco Tuscan dinner overlooking the garden, in which buckets of fresh vegetables, plates of burrata, and wax paper packages of gelato were devoured by candlelight. &amp;quot;This,&amp;quot; von Furstenberg said as she made her way from table to table, &amp;quot;is what life is all about. Fun!&amp;quot;friends captivated under the early summer sky. Guests were greeted with flutes of prosecco while a string quartet played Pachelbel&amp;#039;s Canon in D major and von Furstenberg reflected on the symbolically charged homecoming. &amp;quot;It was indeed in a factory outside Florence that I had my first dresses made and the wrapdress would be born,&amp;quot; she recalled at the party. It was also an emotional reunion between the designer and Bruna Sequalino, the wrap&amp;#039;s original patternmaker, whom von Furstenberg hadn&amp;#039;t seen in nearly 30 years. There was no lack of familiar faces either, from model Natalia Vodianova (who both opened and closed the runway show) to wrapdress groupie Eva Longoria Parker. &amp;quot;Diane is an icon who keeps fashion magical, exciting, and feminine,&amp;quot; Longoria said. Not to mention well fed: After the show, hundreds of high heels ascended the Giardino Torrigiani hilltop for an alfresco Tuscan dinner overlooking the garden, in which buckets of fresh vegetables, plates of burrata, and wax paper packages of gelato were devoured by candlelight. &amp;quot;This,&amp;quot; von Furstenberg said as she made her way from table to table, &amp;quot;is what life is all about. Fun!&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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