[madame_georgiana]

This is interesting!Not sure if this is the right place to put this but its is gossip.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-catwalks.html

Any guesses to who the the people they are looking into in the fashion world?

[Urban Stylin]

link doesnt open

[madame_georgiana]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-catwalks.html this should work

[vogue28]

I don't understand

[chanelnumber5]

Quote:

Originally Posted by vogue28 I don't understand

Niether do I, is it saying the Mafia are funding fashion houses?

[pitumpah]

Basically they are saying there's a connection between 'Ndrangheta's cocaine dealers and fashion world, and that someone threatened Cavalli

?

[madame_georgiana]

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/..._with_coc.html

[Filipe]

Excuse me:

Fashion’s Relationship With Cocaine Thrives in Milan

Quote:

Authorities in Italy are trying to crack down on the 'Ndrangheta, Italy's largest organized crime unit, based in Calabria. According to the Telegraph, the 'Ndrangheta is infiltrating Milan to an alarming degree, "flooding the streets with cocaine, muscling in on public works contracts, and investing some of the proceeds in the city's famous fashion business." Fashion and cocaine? They don't say. The group is thought to supply Europe with 80 percent of its cocaine supply. Up to 10 percent of Milan residents are cocaine users, while consumption of the drug has risen 40 percent in the last ten years. The Telegraph reports: The cocaine habits of the fashion world, of course, go back considerably longer than that. But Mr Nobili told The Sunday Telegraph that more direct links between the fashion industry and the Calabrian mobsters were emerging. "I'm not going to name names at the moments, but we're looking some people in the fashion world," he said, noting how some prominent fashion figures appeared to have been able to afford luxury new palazzi despite the recession. "What they (the Calabria) do is make their money illegally, then invest it in legitimate business." And we thought weed was the new cocaine. What were we thinking? Weed is the new acetaminophen.

nymag.com

[madame_georgiana]

Quote:

"I'm not going to name names at the moments, but we're looking some people in the fashion world," he said, noting how some prominent fashion figures appeared to have been able to afford luxury new palazzi despite the recession.

Which makes me think that certain designers are profiting themselves from the 'Ndrangheta.

source:telegraph onlie

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

I guess anything must be done in oreder to survive...thats crazy if its true