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Byline: Andre Leon Talley
"It's so difficult to find the perfect details for a dinner, so I decided to bring everything I love," said Miuccia Prada, moving through her new Rodeo Drive epicenter. She'd flown in
from Italy with her full staff of chefs and assistants and a
huge cargo of place settings: eighteenth-century Meissen porcelain, her own museum-quality silver chargers, gold and amethyst Venini crystal. . . . Prada had invited the A-list to dinner on a cool July evening, and she made sure the meal was memorable. Save for the elaborate settings, the round tables were left unadorned-no flowers, no tablecloths-and the California aristocracy sat on high-backed laminated-plastic chairs, also flown in from Italy. Waiters with ...