I changed planes in Munich; they had some big Lego sculptures in the airport lobby. This one is of a tourist! My twin. Those black things around his neck are camera straps.
In Milano, about the first thing I did was go to the center of town to check out the Duomo (Cathedral) and its vast square. Here it is, looming in the morning mist, a bit blocky due to restoration-scaffolding. Note the galleria angling off to the left.
I went up on the roof. It was like walking around on a stone wedding cake, A huge stone Mandelbrot set.
Not many of us were up there on this November morn.
And the people down below were tiny. Such a volume of space!
Then I visited Milano's other cathedral, Prada store Numero Uno. Note fashionista peering into the window, she was about fifty.
A sneaked photo inside Prada. Most of the store is down below sidewalk level. Some really nice purses and shoes in those cases.
Later in the same galleria — which is a centuries-old stone stucture, two hundred feet tall — I saw this outfit. Note the oversize sport bag used as purse, not to mention the super-floppy knickers. The heavy-duty multi-buckle exquisitely-tooled luxury combat boots don't show up so well. This woman was about twenty.
And then I made my way to the FuturShow. It's about three hundred booths, each wholly closed off in a square tent some ten meters across, with video projections on the tent walls. Inside each tent are gizmos and booth-bunnies — spokespersons? It's all very high-fashion.
