History of fashion design second biggest-selling fashion brand (after LVMH) worldwide with US$7 billion worldwide of revenue in 2006 according to BusinessWeek magazine. In the 1990s the designer label Prada became a true creative force in the fashion industry. The Milanese company was first established in 1923, two years after Gucci, and like Gucci, it was a firm that sold high-quality shoes and leather. It was until the 1980s that Miuccia Prada, the niece of the company's founder, began to produce ready-to-wear fashion, gaining fame for her subtle, streamlined, yet unquestionably luxurious style, that catered for the privileged young woman who prefers understatement to
Italian name Italian "nome" is not analogous to the ancient Roman "nomen" since the former is the given name (distinct between siblings), and the latter the gentile name (inherited, thus shared by all belonging to a gens). Female naming traditions and name changing rules after adoption for both sexes also differ between Roman antiquity and modern Italian use. Moreover, the low number and the steady decline of importance and variety of Roman "praenomina" starkly contrast with the current number of Italian given names. Many Italian male given names : And in "-a" (for example "Andrea", "Battista", "Elia", "Enea", "Evangelista", "Luca", "Mattia" or