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\n\tAfter 27 years of living in South Pasadena, Calif., Richard Tyler and his wife Lisa Trafficante are selling their Italian Renaissance home to spend more time on the road and to possibly return to fashion.<\/p>\n
\n\tDuring an interview Thursday, the couple was hanging out in Los Angeles, while their realtor was showing the five-bedroom, five-bathroom property which includes a guest house. <\/p>\n
\n\tIncreasingly spending time in Milan and Genoa, they are keen to start making more trips to New York, where they were once enmeshed in the fashion industry. \u201cWe really enjoy New York and we haven\u2019t been spending any time there. We used to be bicoastal so we miss that,\u201d Trafficante said. \u201cRichard has always said, since I met him, that he only lives in a house for five years. That had been true with the Gramercy Park house we had, and the Dolores del R\u00edo one [in Hollywood] and our place on Washington Street [in New York.] But this one we have had for 27 years. That tells you a lot about this house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBuilt in 1910 by Reginald Davis Johnson and listed as a Cultural Heritage Landmark, \u201cVilla Arno\u201d\u00a0 includes a swimming pool and expansive gardens that Tyler has tended to. The one-acre property is listed for $12 million.<\/p>\n
\n\tEager to spend more time in Italy especially and \u201cto be more out in the world,\u201d the couple hopes to buy a place in New York to reduce the travel time for European excursions. Tyler and his wife have spoken with potential partners in Milan about developing a women\u2019s line. \u201cThat could be fun. Then maybe I can be on the cover of Women\u2019s Wear Daily again,\u201d he said with a laugh. \u201cThe most exciting and nerve-wracking time in my life was when we did our first fashion show at the New York Public Library. We thought it was a success, but you never know. For my whole life, all I was interested in was to be on the cover of Women\u2019s Wear Daily. I think our show was on a Thursday, and Friday I rushed to the newsstand, but nothing. I went again Monday and nothing. And then finally on Tuesday, there it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWhile prime on the fashion scene in the 1980s and 1990s, Tyler suited up such celebrities as Cher, Elton John, Diana\u00a0Ross\u00a0and Rod\u00a0Stewart. Born in Australia, Tyler learned how to sew from his mother. Unlike most designers, he started out in menswear in the mid-1980s before introducing womenswear in 1989. Anne Klein & Co. tapped him in the early 1990s, but his L.A.-inspired edgy style turned out to be not in line with the middle-of-the-road label. Tyler won three awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and he designed uniforms for Delta Airlines at one point in his career.<\/p>\n
\n\tVilla Arno has attracted a few film crews over the years including the production team behind \u00a0\u201cPalm Royale\u201d with actresses Kristen Wiig, Naomi Watts and Laura Dern. That led to an unexpected reunion with Dern, whom Tyler had dressed for key appearances in the past. Trafficante said, \u201cPeople come in to do a movie shoot, and say, \u2018Oh my god, it\u2019s Richard Tyler. You\u2019re my favorite designer. I wish I could get your clothes again.\u2019 We hear that especially now, when a style has returned that is befitting for Richard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAlthough there was a time when jackets, coats, suits and faux furs were out, that\u2019s no longer the case. Their son Edward also designs fashion, and he has incorporated that into his work in music and film. During one of Richard Tyler\u2019s fashion shows years ago, the model Naomi Campbell took the then three-month-old Edward out of Trafficante\u2019s arms and carried him down the runway. The couple hopes to include their son, \u201cwho grew up in the industry,\u201d in their fashion return. And their 29-year-old offspring is all-in with letting go of the South Pasadena manse. \u201cIt\u2019s funny I said to him, \u2018I\u2019m sorry that we\u2019re going to sell it.\u2019 He said, \u2018I don\u2019t have that feeling at all. I\u2019m just lucky to have lived in all of these beautiful places. I don\u2019t have any feelings that we have to hang onto them.\u2019\u201d Trafficante said. \u201cHe\u2019s good support for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After 27 years of living in South Pasadena, Calif., Richard Tyler and his wife Lisa Trafficante are selling their Italian Renaissance home to spend more time on the road and to possibly return to fashion. During an interview Thursday, the couple was hanging out in Los Angeles, while their realtor was showing the five-bedroom, five-bathroom property which includes a guest house. Increasingly spending time in Milan and Genoa, they are keen to start making more trips to New York, where they were once enmeshed in the fashion industry. \u201cWe really enjoy New York and we haven\u2019t been spending any time there. We used to be bicoastal so we miss that,\u201d Trafficante said. \u201cRichard has always said, since I met him, that he only lives in a house for five years. That had been true with the Gramercy Park house we had, and the Dolores del R\u00edo one [in Hollywood] and our place on Washington Street [in New York.] But this one we have had for 27 years. That tells you a lot about this house.\u201d Built in 1910 by Reginald Davis Johnson and listed as a Cultural Heritage Landmark, \u201cVilla Arno\u201d\u00a0 includes a swimming pool and expansive gardens that Tyler has tended to. The one-acre property is listed for $12 million. Eager to spend more time in Italy especially and \u201cto be more out in the world,\u201d the couple hopes to buy a place in New York to reduce the travel time for European excursions. Tyler and his wife have spoken with potential partners in Milan about developing a women\u2019s line. \u201cThat could be fun. Then maybe I can be on the cover of Women\u2019s Wear Daily again,\u201d he said with a laugh. \u201cThe most exciting and nerve-wracking time in my life was when we did our first fashion show at the New York Public Library. We thought it was a success, but you never know. For my whole life, all I was interested in was to be on the cover of Women\u2019s Wear Daily. I think our show was on a Thursday, and Friday I rushed to the newsstand, but nothing. I went again Monday and nothing. And then finally on Tuesday, there …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}