Italian high-fashion designers displayed their fall collections last week in Rome's magnificent Palazzo Barberini. Set in such baroque splendor, the clothes took an occasional second place to statuary but, by and large, emerged victorious—and lovely. The year's top Italian fashion news: the look, in general, is fanciful and "romantic."
Romance, in high-fashion terminology, means marabou feathers and encrusted chiffon, sumptuous embroidery and lacy swansdown, and involves moonlight only as an adjective for blue and roses only if they bloom on fabrics instead of bushes. Fur and crocheted collars are conspicuous, as...
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