{"id":340,"date":"2004-11-18T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T18:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=340"},"modified":"2004-11-18T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T18:54:02","slug":"milano-cathedral-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/18\/milano-cathedral-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Milano, Cathedral, Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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I went up on the roof. It was like walking around on a stone wedding cake, A huge stone Mandelbrot set.<\/p>\n

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Not many of us were up there on this November morn.<\/p>\n

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And the people down below were tiny. Such a volume of space!<\/p>\n

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Then I visited Milano's other cathedral, Prada store Numero Uno. Note fashionista peering into the window, she was about fifty.<\/p>\n

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A sneaked photo inside Prada. Most of the store is down below sidewalk level. Some really nice purses and shoes in those cases.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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