Roberto Cavalli pulled out all the stops for his 40th anniversary show Monday by holding the event at a spectacular venue — the 19th-century marble Arco Della Pace — and tapping Natalia Vodianova and Laetitia Casta to open and close the show, respectively.
According to sources, Cavalli is paying Vodianova 50,000-70,000 euros ($67,000-$94,000) for both her walk down the runway in Milan and her attendance at the designer’s Paris bash next month — an event rumored to cost over 1.5 million euros ($2 million). In Milan, the designer had a front row that included many of his Italian celebrity friends, Maria Grazia Cucinotta among them, and a few international names such as Rachel Bilson, Heidi Klum and Leona Lewis.
