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IT STILL needs a few final touches: the right lighting fixtures in the Moschino showroom, a bit more graffiti for Rifat Ozbek, a tree on the terrace.
But all things considered, Moda & Co.'s recent move to a restored 1899 town house at 30 West 56th Street - a place four times bigger than its old home on Fifth Avenue - has gone fairly smoothly.
By the time the opening party - which will be attended by Alberta Ferretti, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Rifat Ozbek - rolls around this month, it should be a fait accompli.
Moda, the U.S. arm of the Italian designer manufacturing firm Aeffe SpA, has waited awhile to get into its new home. It bought the town house in 1994. For the last two years, an architecture and interior design firm has been gutting, restoring and redesigning the building.
"We'd been looking for a while to duplicate the same environment that the designers have...