HEAVENLY BODIES

Domenico Dolce, in black shorts, a t-shirt and a straw trilby, mops his brow for the n^th time during a preview of the Alta Moda collection in July.

The faint hum of Sicilian-style air-conditioning mingles with serenading crickets. Scores of seamstresses flown in from Milan, seemingly impervious to the heat, focus on the yards of tulle