Pierpaolo Piccioli takes a carpe diem approach to travel. On a short trip to New York City in March, he hit the Boom Boom Room, Katz’s Deli, The Red Rooster, Minton’s (its facade anyway; it was closed) and Il Buco. And that was just the first day, between afternoon touchdown at John F. Kennedy airport and lights out at the Crosby Street Hotel.
The primary purpose of his two-and-a-half-day visit was scouting; Piccioli was seeking a location for today’s Valentino cruise show. Despite his packed official schedule, Piccioli worked in plenty of extracurricular stops. “I love being everywhere,” he says. It didn’t hurt that his traveling companion, Valentino’s worldwide communications director, Francesca Leoni, lived and worked in New York for several years, keeps an apartment here and is a full-on Gotham-o-phile — a highly knowledgeable one, at that. They checked out the Boom Boom Room as a venue for tonight’s postshow party, and everywhere else, just for fun: Minton’s and The Red Rooster (for its music and a drink) because Leoni loves Harlem and Katz’s Deli, for its “When Harry Met Sally” “I’ll have what she’s having” kitsch. As for Il Buco — well, you have to eat. And when you see Mick Jagger post-pasta,
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