Leonardo

“Leonardo -- he’s this massive, and oddly attractive... I don’t know. Event.”. - Eve Dallas, Immortal in Death

Leonardo
Occupation	Clothing Designer
Gender	Male
Eyes	Gold
Height	6 feet, 5 inches (195.58 cm)
Weight	260 pounds (117.93 kg)
Residence	Eve’s old apartment
Spouse	Mavis Freestone

Introduction

Leonardo first appeared in Immortal in Death as the designer of Eve’s wedding dress. He married Mavis in Born in Death shortly before she delivers their daughter, Bella Eve. They currently live together in Eve’s old apartment.

Descriptions

• In Immortal in Death he was described as appearing to have a Native American heritage, a wide face, razor cheekbones, fingers the size of soydogs, ham-sized hands, and copper skin-tone.
  • He was an enormous man, built like a maxibus with huge rippling biceps, and unexpected grace. He had tight, shoulder-length curls and his laugh was booming. His voice had a hint of magnolia (possibly Southern).
• In Conspiracy in Death he was described as having the spirit of a seven-year-old boy on the first day of school, built like a redwood with gold-toned eyes.
• In Judgment in Death, Leonardo was described as a giant man with long glossy braids, gold eyes, and the smooth copper skin of a mixed-race heritage... he moved with uncanny grace for a man topping six-five.
• He had a caramel-colored face, soft, curling hair and gold eyes.
• He was big, copper-skinned and currently sported a style of sausage twists of hair.

Personality

• Mavis said he was incredibly creative and understood the inner soul.
• Dr. Mira described him as the type to avoid violence by running away from it. However, he was a creative genius with clothing and fashion, a man who “understood women.”
  • He was a man who adored women and understood their wrath. In other words, he feared them. Eve said she liked him, “even if he is a pussy.”
• Mavis said that you couldn’t really fight with Leonardo; he’s too sweet.
• Leonardo blushes.

History

• He was first introduced as an up-and-coming designer with a 3rd floor loft workshop in a SoHo neighborhood. Leonardo was invited by Mavis to design Eve’s wedding dress in Immortal in Death.
  • It seemed Leonardo believed in advertising in a big way.
• Mavis and Leonardo had been sleeping together for about two weeks in Immortal in Death (June, 2058); which means they would have been together since late May, 2058.

Interesting Facts

• Leonardo rarely drinks because he was prone to blackouts and blank spaces.
• Mavis and Leonardo knew Morris and Amaryllis Coltraine slightly. They ran into each other at a club one night and sat down together.
• Mavis called him “honey-pot” “honey bear” and “huggie bear.”

Leonardo’s Outfits/Appearance

Immortal in Death

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• He wore “a sleeveless robe in the eye-searing colors of a Martian sunset. He had a small, glinting stone winking beside his flashing grin and eyes like gold coins.”

Rapture in Death

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• He was “in a corner of the studio, glowing like a sunbeam at Mavis and wearing a body-skimming jumpsuit that made him look like an elegant grizzly.”
• “... a giant in a magenta skin suit overbloused with emerald gauze.”

Vengeance in Death

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• “... ankle skimming robe the color of good Bordeaux.”

Judgment in Death

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• “... wearing a hooded ankle duster of Atlantic blue. He beamed at Mavis, and the ruby studs beside his mouth and just under his left eyebrow winked flirtatiously.”

Reunion in Death

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• “He was bare-chested but for a red satin X across his pecs that seemed to be holding up the fluid, shimmering pants that flowed from his waist to the toes of his red, crisscrossing sandals. Ruby studs forming a chevron at the corner of his left eye winked as he grinned and passed Mavis her glass.”

Portrait in Death

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• “He was draped in white, long, loose pants, long, loose shirt that flowed around his impressive body and gleamed against the gold-dust tone of his skin. He had a single pigtail draped down one side of his face, and like Mavis, had it tipped in pink and blue, and belled.”

Divided in Death

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• “... his casual cookout-wear of shimmery white pants and a bright yellow shirt that crossed over his impressive chest in a skin-tight X.”

Visions in Death

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• His eyes “were currently accented with a sweeping line of silver studs at each corner. He wore boots as well, pale blue that rode up his calves. There his loose sapphire pants sort of poofed into them, reminding Eve of pictures she’d seen of - she thought - Arabia.”

Memory in Death

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• “... the giant of a man in silver and red at her side.”

Born in Death

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• “He’d gone with a sweater as well, a crazed and intricate geometric pattern of colors against gold.”

Innocent in Death

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• “His at-home wear was a pair of brilliantly blue pants with legs as wide as Utah and a silky sweater in snow-blind white.”

Fantasy in Death

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• “... long, smoked silver coat... That same silver wound here and there through the rich copper curls that fell around his wide, fascinating face.”

Calculated in Death

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• For the New York premiere of The Icove Agenda: (Mavis) A cascade of shimmering blonde intersected with a multitude of thin purple braids that matched the color of her dress. Emerald green ribbons - the color of her shoes - twined around each braid. Beside her, Leonardo wore the emerald green in a long-jacketed tux with purple shirt and tie.

Possession in Death

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• “...glided away in his calf-baring red crops.”

Obsession in Death

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• A mountain, but in fashionable trousers of dull gold and a knee-length vest over a black sweater...

Apprentice in Death

• A shiny, dome-shaped party hat on his long copper hair, manning the bar in a tunic the color of sapphires

Leverage in Death

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• Leonardo on the red carpet at the Oscars: “Beside [Mavis], Leonardo wore one of those long tux jackets that skimmed to his knees in some sort of metallic fabric that shifted from emerald to sapphire.”

Connections in Death

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• “Leonardo resembled some sort of ancient pagan priest in a flowing vest shades deeper than his copper skin. His hair showered down to his shoulders in what looked like hundreds of thin braids.”

Desperation in Death

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• “...tall as a tree in his long red shirt, towered over the rest [of the group]. His hair, a gleaming copper, tumbled down, and eyes nearly the same color were dark with concern.”

Passions in Death

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• “Leonardo, the gentle giant, took Mavis’s hand and stood with her in a flowing sleeveless shirt and baggies that cropped at his ankles.”

Framed in Death

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• A flowing long shirt of green-and-pink stripes

Leonardo's Designs/Creations

Immortal in Death

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• Eve’s wedding dress - “slim, long, simple column, not too delicate.” It had “long lines, the most subtle of accents at the bodice, sleeves that came to soft, rounded points just at the back of the hand.” The “back was as sleek and elegant as the front, with a slit to the knees.” It was bronze silk, and she wore a twisted copper and gemstone necklace with two lengths, twenty-four and thirty inches, with colored stones - rubies, citrine, onyx, carnelian, and tourmaline.
• Curvaceous for Eve – a variation of a Merry Widow to wear under her wedding dress. It added a bit of a lift under her breasts, a little more contour, and Leonardo used a touch of lace and a few pearls - nothing too ornate. Eve thinks it makes her look sexy, curvy, ripe. The material had a faint gleam to it, as though it was damp; Biff found the material at a little cottage shop on Richer Five
  • Another Curvaceous, in Rascal Red satin, for Mavis.
• A simple day suit in a blended linen with just a whisper of silk; the color is citrine with trim of garnet, Rayspan in citrus lemon, and Breton lace with velvet, classic black silk.
• For the fashion show, Jerry Fitzgerald wore a gold lame tube that Eve told her made her look like a fairy wand. She said it was one of his retro shots - early twentieth-century glamour. She then wore a sheer white silk dress with rainbow trimming, and still had ten more changes to go, including a billowing balloon skirt and sheer bodice.
• Eve changed into one of his no frills dresses, described as having narrow straps draped over her biceps, for the show; Roarke liked it and told her to keep it.

Rapture in Death

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• Roarke suggested Eve wear “something loose and floor length” after she was injured thwarting a bombing at a Credit Exchange Center. “Try the blue ankle sweep Leonardo designed for you.” “It slid weightlessly over her skin, concealing the bruises stylishly with its high neck, long, tapering sleeves, and draping skirt. She supposed she looked as close to elegant as she was ever going to get.”

Vengeance in Death

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• Leonardo offered to show Dr. Mira a preview of his corporate woman line: classic lines, cool colors, including “some marvelous linen in a dusky pink that would be perfect for [her].” Mavis called it conservative jazz, sexy lady of the manor.

Holiday in Death

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• An undercover wardrobe for Peabody including:
  • A sweeping ankle duster of deep pine green with hidden pockets for her stunner and communicator, a tangle of chains in jewel hues (unclear of those were included), and toothpick-heeled shoes in gold
  • A peekaboo skinsuit - no details given
  • A short, snug skirt and stiletto-heeled boots, both the color of ripe raspberries
  • A shimmering sweep of blue silk that Peabody wore on a date with Charles Monroe to an art show in Witness in Death.
• Eve’s holiday party dress: fluid panels of silver held together on the sides by thin sparkling straps. The straps were repeated at the shoulders, catching a drape of fabric in the front and much, much lower in the back. Eve suggested just going naked to save time. “The material was soft as a waterfall and clung like a lover, the seductive side slashes exposing smooth skin and slender curves.”

Conspiracy in Death

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• The dress Eve wore to the charity fashion show for the Drake Center:
  • A long, smooth column in dark copper, falling straight from its off-the-shoulder neckline to her ankles.
• From the show:
  • A backless-to-the-butt red number that Mavis suggested would look great on Eve, but Leonardo told her “that color wouldn’t suit her.”
  • A green satin dress he designed with Eve in mind: “the color and cut are perfect for her.” Roarke said, “Then she’ll have to have it.” Eve, who wasn’t paying attention to the conversation, told Leonardo, “I especially liked that green thing.”

Seduction in Death

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• Outfit for Eve to wear on her date with “Wordsworth” when she dressed as Stefanie Finch:
  • White skinsuit with a red swish, elbow sleeves, scooped neck to midboobs. The swish of material swirled down in a kind of open-fronted skirt; it was murderous red and fell to midcalf, and did nothing to make the skinsuit more modest.

Reunion in Death

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• Dress for Eve to wear to Louise Dimatto’s benefit to raise money for new medi-vans for the Canal Street Clinic:
  • “She’d chosen black. The glinting silver threads sparkling through the modified skin suit didn’t interest her. The easy give of the fabric was key. Her primary weapon nestled in the small of her back, holstered there by what looked like a decorative silver belt.” She wore a jacket in the same fluid black and silver that shimmered to her knees and draped cleanly over the police gear at her back while billowing and giving provocative hints of the body slicked into the skin suit.

Imitation in Death

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• Eve’s outfit at a charity dinner dance in a Philadelphia ballroom: a little copper-colored glittery number without pockets.

Visions in Death

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• Event with Roarke where Eve played fashionable corporate wife:
  • Something green with sparkles all over it, and where it wasn’t green and sparkly, it showed a lot of skin, plus green and sparkly shoes with high enough, needle-thin heels that she’d been nearly eye to eye with Roarke. Since she was either 5'9" or 5'10" and he was 6'2", they would have been (almost) four or five inch heels. She proceeded to ruin the dress at the crime scene of Elisa Maplewood in Central Park.

Memory in Death

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• Eve’s holiday party dress:
  • A long panel of dull gold with shoes the same color that had skinny straps decorated with diamonds and even skinnier heels. Roarke told her, “You look like a flame. A long golden flame on a cold night.” The dress was a column, sleek and fluid from just over her breasts to her ankles.

Promises in Death

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• Eve’s dress for Louise’s bridal shower:
  • “... flowing, thin-strapped dress, the color of ripe plums.” Mira called it, “simple, comfortable, gorgeous.” It also had slit pockets so Eve could keep her ’link and communicator with her.

Kindred in Death

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• Eve’s maid-of-honor dress for Louise’s wedding:
  • Louise and Leonardo got together to decide on yellow.
  • Delia Peabody said: It’s like sunlight, the color. Summer sunlight. “The dress was more female than her usual, with all the sheer layers shimmering down, but she had to admit it wasn’t fussy.”

Fantasy in Death

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• Eve’s dress for Nadine’s book launch party:
  • “She would have called it yellow, but it wasn’t accurate. It was deeper, richer than yellow. Not brown, not that deep, but something that blended both into tawny. It had light, she mused. Not sparkle or shine, just light. No fuss, no flounce - to her relief - just a column as sleek as her hair, and at a touch of her finger, as fluid as water. The material simply slid down, light as air, leaving her shoulders bare and giving her breasts a bit more of a boost than she thought they deserved. But the hidden pockets in the side seams distracted and pleased her. She could easily tuck her clutch piece in one, her badge in the other. What else did a woman need?”
  • She asked Roarke what color it was, saying, “I can’t figure it.” “It should be easy for you, as you look at it every day... It’s your eyes.”

Indulgence in Death

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• Patrice Delaughter, who was in New York for a number of reasons, including having a gown designed by Leonardo, describing Eve’s jacket: “Simple lines in a cropped length matched with a strong color in that Nikko blue, and the interest of the Celtic design on the buttons, which match the one on your ring.”
• Eve’s dress for the ballet / meeting with Sylvester Moriarity III and Winston Dudley IV:
  • “The dress was short, simple, and black. But it came with a hip-skimming jacket that fastened up the front with a lot of fancy loops.”

Celebrity in Death

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• Eve’s dress for the Icove Agenda dinner party:
  • A short dress with a kind of drape to the skirt from where it was caught at the side of the waist with a flower of the same material and color as the dress. Not really blue, not really green, with a kind og shimmery overcast. It had a wide scoop of neck and thumb-wide straps. According to Roarke, “The little black dress is a classic for a reason, but often expected--especially in New York. So you’ll go with color, rich color in a soft sheen. It’s feminine without fuss, sexy without trying to be.” There was a deep plunge in the back.
• Mavis mentioned that Leonardo was “huddled with Andi about her dress for the premiere,” but no details were given.

Calculated in Death

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• Eve’s dress for the premiere of The Icove Agenda:
  • Magenta
  • Eve “glowed against the deep, rich color of the dress... It skimmed down her long, lean frame from the square neck where the teardrop diamond he’d given her lay above the subtle curve of her breasts, then floated ever so gently to mid-thigh.”

Festive in Death

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• Eve’s holiday dress:
  • “It looks like somebody melted old gold coins and made a dress.” It was “a pale, luminous, somehow watery gold with what looked like a very low-scooped neckline and long thin sleeves. It fit like it had been made for her because it had been. So there was comfort, at least, and it was really nice fabric, soft, sleek, with a gleam rather than a glitter.”

Echoes in Death

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• Eve’s dress for a charity winter ball event in an elegant East Side hotel in the Carnegie Hill area of the Upper East Side:
  • A sheer dress of red and silver. The skirt consisted of dozens of thin, floaty panels that swirled like ribbons when she walked and exposed a long length of leg. Straps, as narrow and sparkly as those on her needle-thin heeled shoes (attached to her feet by a bunch of glittery straps), crisscrossed over her bare back.”
  • Peabody called the dress “sexigance: sexy elegance.”

Leverage in Death

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• Peabody’s Oscar dress:
  • Frothy pink number that bared good, strong shoulders and sparkled in the sunlight.
• McNab’s Oscar tux:
  • Dark blue with a plaid vest and a screaming red bow tie
• Nadine’s Oscar dress:
  • Elegant: “sleek and classic and deep gold. Not sparkling but gleaming and slithering down to a kind of liquid trail behind her.”

Connections in Death

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• Eve’s dress for Nadine’s housewarming/Oscar party:
  • “A slinky jade dress that shimmered with her movements.

Vendetta in Death

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• Nigel McEnroy was wearing a black leather Leonardo jacket when he was abducted.

Shadows in Death

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• Among Lorcan Cobbe’s purchases from Urbane were two Leonardo T-shirts, one in noire (black), the other in slate (gray).
• Eve’s pale gray topper (with Thin Shield built in) is a Leonardo, according to the store clerk, Trent Bilbo.

Encore in Death

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• Eliza Lane’s party dress:
  • A bold red cocktail dress that showed off her dancer’s legs, fitting her slim, disciplined body to perfection, following the curves like a lover before the skirt flared, highlighting strong shoulders and toned arms with slim straps.

Payback in Death

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• A linen jacket with the thin line of darker gray leather at the lapels and cuffs that was lined with Thin Shield for Eve.
• A thin, flowy jacket in pale, pale green for Peabody: “Leonardo was helping me organize some of my fabrics, and he saw this, sketched out this jacket design in like two minutes, Then he made it, right there and then.”