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La Dolce & Gabbana vita; When Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana restored an iconic property in legendary Portofino, they transformed the interiors into a disco fantasy.(fashion designers)(Interview)

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Byline: Hamish Bowles

Fashion titans and serial "good taste" offenders Stefano Gabbana (tall, world-weary, and wryly acerbic) and Domenico Dolce (elfin, giddily enthusiastic, and ever jolly) had just completed work on yet another property in their extensive real-estate portfolio-a sleek black-and-white villa at Roquebrune, near Monte Carlo-when a realtor friend called to say that he had found "the perfect house" for them, this time in Portofino, the jewel of Italy's northwestern Riviera. "Is not the moment; I just finished one house," Gabbana told him firmly. But the realtor insisted. Apparently the owner, a Genoese grande dame, had fallen for the designers on ...

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