Update: Roberto Cavalli Creative Director Rumor a Hoax!

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We got an email from Christopher Michael, the originator of the rumor about Roberto Cavalli getting a new creative director, that the whole thing is a hoax. Michael writes: "It appears the joke was to see how fast it would be tweeted, only in the end it was not even true."
· Christopher Michael, @thecreatrix [Twitter]