Looking for the must-have fashion item for 2007? Try an Augusta Westland helicopter with a customized interior by Versace. Because if you had been thinking about the Lamborghini supercar with leather seats handstitched with Versace’s trademark Roman key, too late. Sold out, all 20, at $475,000 a pop. “I believe that today lifestyle is important.

It is no longer expressed with handbags or shoes. You express this with your travels, with your car, or helicopter. You express it in 360 degrees,” Gianni Versace SpA CEO Giancarlo Di Risio said at the 29th International Furniture Expo in Milan.

Italian fashion tip: When the going gets tough, the wealthy accessorize