Fashion reworks Italian culture:
Louis Vuitton in Florence
When is a store not a store? They used to be all the same, from Rome to Singapore, but today there's an extra something for every corner in every shop
Private details in Italy:
Margaret Windsor, waiting for #TheCrown
The princess, Helena Bonham Carter in the next season of The Crown,
used to spend periods in Italy in a castle in the countryside of Piacenza, host of Zanardi Landi
Natural diamonds: the human value
that exceeds the mining value
"Send them to the mines" - a phrase we've heard from kings and dictators, in films as well as in children's cartoons, a phrase that has almost become a proverb, that rings like a condemnation
Marella Agnelli’s life is a poem
of snobbery and style
In a paean written to celebrate the life of Donna Marella Agnelli, the question arises as to where Truman Capote's "swans" are today?
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Spots and Notes, a new way of travelling
Attrape-Rêves
Agenda. Peony and African cocoa flower – on a base of Turkish rose, with hints of ginger. The perfume seeks that euphoria that explodes when in California, at the Post Ranch Inn, your eyes widen before a shower of shooting stars.
Vivamayr
Three meals per day to be eaten in silence, sitting at one’s table – alone - on a patio with a view of the lake. No talking allowed, no reading or writing. Maximum concentration as you eat
Hotels in Rome
Text Carlo Mazzoni. The new Eden is too tucked away, the haunt of questionable bloggers. Palazzo Dama is pretentious. The worst seems to be the Gran Melia on Gianicolo
A ring with Paraiba: Helen Yarmak
Text Matteo Mammoli. I meet Helen, fashion designer, manufacturer of jewels and fur, in her showroom in via Montenapoleone.
A conversation with Trudie Styler
Text Matteo Mammoli. «A pair of jeans will not save me. Maybe a ticket to Mars could, or to Milan.»
Streetwear? No, a suit by Paul Smith
Text Angelica Carrara. Not everyone gets on the streetwear bandwagon, not Paul Smith who revisits his archive, his story, and reconfirms the suit in a game of proportions. Clothing, a constant. “It is like a frame to a photo. Your choice is the image in the middle. Dress it up or down.”
Sebastiano Mauri about Favola
Text Matteo Mammoli. "The more a woman toils at home, the more beautiful she is in the eyes of her husband", this is the law in use in the Fifties in America. Mrs Fairytale declaims this, with her hair set and her puffy dress, quickly moving from one hall to another of her bourgeois house – waiting for her husband to come back.