We all know what they say about imitation and flattery, in art as in life. Things were no different in Florence during the early 16th century, when three artists who would become known as the brightest stars of the Italian Renaissance brought a brie

In the past year, the fashion designer Kiko Kostadinov began to feel that everyone wanted to talk about one thing: money. Journalists, store owners, employees in his studio — every conversation became about who was succeeding, whose finances are sli