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Badoglio

American  
[bah-daw-lyaw] / bɑˈdɔ lyɔ /

noun

  1. Pietro 1871–1956, Italian general.


Badoglio British  
/ baˈdɔʎʎo /

noun

  1. Pietro (ˈpjetro). 1871–1956, Italian marshal; premier (1943–44) following Mussolini's downfall: arranged an armistice with the Allies (1943)

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Once upon a time, Cesare Badoglio, who puts his age at “between 80 and 99,” was the spirit whisperer for some of the brightest talents in Italian fashion.

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At his popular weekend events in Milan at the Hotel Verdi, Mr. Badoglio — tarot reader, astrologer, fortune teller — threw cards for Franco Moschino and Gianni and Donatella Versace, among others.

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“You can’t predict everything,” Mr. Badoglio said recently, his eyes wet.

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Though the Italian fashion world may have become marginally less superstitious since then, some style insiders still seek Mr. Badoglio’s predictions.

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Mr. Badoglio often tells his clients in the fashion industry to visit the Vienna cemetery where Princess Sissi, the glamorous 19th-century empress of Austria, is buried.

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