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Milan Fashion Week 2026: Strategic Debuts, Returns, and Notable Absences
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Japan Today: What Is the Health of One of the World’s Largest Economies?
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VIAREGGIO CARNIVAL A DAY OF LIGHT, JOY AND FANTASY
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SALONE DEL MOBILE: ITALIAN EXCELLENCE REMAINS A STRATEGIC ASSET
When Salone del Mobile opens, it’s not just a trade show. It’s the activation of a system. A complex ecosystem that starts with design, runs through industry, touches contract, shapes the collective imagination, and generates […]
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Hemingway and the art of telling what you feel, taste, and savor. A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway’s Parisian memoir. He wrote it in his final years. It was published after his death. It tells […]
MILANO CORTINA 2026: WHEN ITALY LIGHTS UP THE WORLD
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MILAN-CORTINA 2026: ITALY’S MOST SUCCESSFUL WINTER OLYMPICS EVER
If the numbers keep trending this way, Milan-Cortina 2026 won’t just be a happy edition. It will be Italy’s most successful Winter Olympics ever, both in quantity and quality of podium finishes. Beyond the flag-waving […]
CORTINA PASSES THE GAMES TEST WITH FLYING COLORS: A RECAP OF INTENSE DAYS OF SNOW, SPORTS AND ORGANIZATION
One day before the closing of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, Cortina d’Ampezzo stands out as a successful case study. The town managed a complex international sporting event. It combined high-level sports, daily city […]
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Tomorrow, Verona won’t just be a city. It will be a stage. And like any stage that demands the world’s attention, controls come before the lights. Alerts rise before the music. Human eyes, electronic eyes, […]
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The closing ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Olympics at the Arena di Verona did something simple and rare. It brought together sports and national image without rhetoric. The message, for those willing to grasp it, was […]
GUCCI, NOTES ON A CHANGE STILL SEARCHING FOR ITS AUTHOR
I watched the recent Gucci show closely. I tried to read it for what it is and what it’s trying to become. There are some interesting elements. Some leather pieces have a strong presence. Some […]
YOU DON’T NEED TO DESTROY EVERYTHING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
I’m reading many comments about the Gucci show right now. Several people catch a real point: the idea of calculated shock, intentional polarization, a discontinuity designed to put the brand back at the center of […]
DOLCE & GABBANA — CONSISTENCY AS BRAND RESPONSIBILITY
– – – There’s one point where Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are right without needing to raise their voices. Fashion, after globalization, didn’t become ‘bigger.’ It became more fragile. More financial. More interchangeable. For […]
BOTTEGA VENETA: WHEN CRAFTSMANSHIP DOESN’T SEEK APPROVAL, BUT DEFENDS A SELECTIVE CODE
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Battiato and the Art of Protecting Without Possessing
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IDENTITY AND NOISE: HOW AI AND CONTENT CHAOS ARE REDEFINING PERCEIVED VALUE
Something is changing. But not the way many describe it. It’s not just a tech revolution. It’s not just the rise of artificial intelligence. And it’s not a traditional economic crisis either. It’s something deeper […]
The Market Is Changing the Rules: They No Longer Search for You on Google
‘They evaluate you through AI. If you’re not relevant to AI, you simply don’t exist.’ A growing number of users no longer search the way they used to. They don’t scroll through dozens of […]
MILANO CORTINA 2026: WHEN ITALY LIGHTS UP THE WORLD
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JAPAN TODAY: WHAT IS THE STATE OF HEALTH OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST ECONOMIES?
Symptoms, balances, and prospects of an economic system in transition Japan’s economy is neither in recession nor in a phase of clear expansion. It continues to function, but under increasing pressure, dealing with a complex […]
MILAN FASHION WEEK 2026: STRATEGIC DEBUTS, RETURNS, AND A FEW NOTICEABLE ABSENCES
Men’s fashion shows and winter events Milan Fashion Week Men’s Fall/Winter 2026–2027, scheduled for January 16 to 20, comes at a delicate and interesting moment for the fashion system: less hype, more substance; less overlap, […]
PITTI IMMAGINE UOMO – EDITION 109 COMES TO AN END
Here is the assessment of the 109th edition of the world’s leading event dedicated to menswear Pitti Immagine Uomo 109 officially draws to a close, and Florence, as tradition dictates, hands over to Milan, where […]
LA BOHÈME AT THE TEATRO DEL MAGGIO IN FLORENCE: NOT JUST MEMORY, BUT FUTURE AND NEW TALENTS
Last night, December 30, 2025, I had the pleasure of attending Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème at the Teatro del Maggio in Florence. It was an evening that effortlessly brought to mind the simple power of […]
MILAN–CORTINA 2026 OLYMPICS: A CONSTELLATION OF CITY, DOLOMITES, AND HISTORY
The name says Milan–Cortina, but the reality is bigger and, if you will, more ambitious: these Games are not based on a single Olympic capital, nor on two “closed” hubs, but on a network of […]
VINTAGE SWEATERS WILL BE A BIG TREND IN 2026
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Over the past months, Naples has been changing pace in a way you can actually measure: worksites moving forward, decisions turning into action, and a reputation that’s starting to travel again beyond Italy—through signals that […]
THE NEW STATUS SYMBOL AFTER BIG BRANDS: VINTAGE & BESPOKE
The prestige of time and the mastery of the hand—when fashion stops devouring itself and learns to last. Luxury used to feel like a closed room. Today it’s everywhere—global access, endless drops, infinite storefronts. And […]
FASHION MAGAZINE CLOSES. WHEN FASHION STORIES END, STORYTELLER SILENCES.
With this message, one of the most iconic and prestigious magazines that have covered the world of fashion for fifty years has closed its doors with immediate effect: “Dear readers, we close with sadness, but also with […]
WHEN THE SUPPLIER BRAND BECOMES THE FIRST COMPETITOR OF THE STORE THAT SELLS IT
In recent years, clothing stores in Italy have been facing challenges that go beyond declining consumption or general online competition. There’s a more subtle contradiction, less talked about, but profoundly destabilizing for those working in […]
GOLD AT THE CENTER OF THE NEW GLOBAL DEBATE
Back in 2013, in an article published on Alessandro Sicuro Comunication titled “The gold held by the Bank of Italy: who owns it?”[…]
ITALIAN FASHION STARTS AGAIN: THE RECOVERY IN THE THIRD QUARTER CHANGES THE PACE OF THE INDUSTRY
After months of uncertainty and eight consecutive quarters of decline, the Italian fashion industry is finally seeing a turnaround. The data for the third quarter of 2025 speak clearly: turnover in the core sectors—textiles, clothing, […]
BRUNELLO, THE GENTLE VISIONARY — THE MAN, THE IDEA, THE FILM
– My perspective on an entrepreneur who transformed capitalism into a project of industrial humanism: a self-made man, listed on the stock exchange and faithful to the numbers, but who always put people, the Solomeo […]
PITTI UOMO 109 – FLORENCE LIGHTS UP THE MOTION, THE MOVEMENT THAT DESIGNS THE TREND
Pitti Uomo returns to the Fortezza da Basso from January 13 to 16, 2026, inaugurating its 109th edition with a theme that perfectly captures the current state of affairs: Motion . A broad, almost cinematic concept, it […]
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GENIUS TRICKS FOR CAPTURING DREAM IMAGES
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JAY KELLY – THE TRUTH THAT REMAINS WHEN THE MYTH FADES
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DOES EXCESS TECHNOLOGY BOOST PRODUCTIVITY OR HOLD IT BACK?
– When technology helps — and when it gets in the way In theory, the more digital tools we have, the more productive we become. In practice, it often works the other way around. Modern […]
GENERATION GUCCI — A PRE-FALL 2026 COLLECTION FROM THE ARCHIVE, BUT WHERE IS THE NEW?
– GENERATION GUCCI I’d stopped being excited about Gucci for too long. Every time I received a notification from the agencies, the reaction was always the same: the new Gucci has come out, fine, […]
CHANEL – BLAZY BRINGS THE MAISON TO THE WORLD’S MOST LIVELY METRO
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PERGOLE TORTE: THE STUBBORN ELEGANCE OF PURE SANGIOVESE
The first time I tasted Le Pergole Torte 2018, it was one of those situations where you taste it without too many expectations, the bottle just uncorked, the wine still closed, restrained, almost shy. My reaction, true […]
HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT’S HAPPENING IN NEW YORK? FOR $9,999 YOU CAN “HAVE AN OPTIMIZED CHILD”
– New York has become a laboratory where something is happening that, until recently, we would have relegated to science fiction. Billboards from the biotech startup Nucleus Genomics have appeared on the subway walls , with a […]
LUXURY IS UNDERGOING A DEEP TRANSFORMATION: FROM THE LUXURY OF APPEARANCE TO THE LUXURY OF BEING
– The high-end supercycle is over: the decline of status symbols and the rise of unique experiences are redefining desires, identities, and new forms of contemporary exclusivity. The high-end world is undergoing the most profound […]
One of the most gripping parodies in cinema and, paradoxically, one of the most beautiful films ever made.
Network ( 1976), directed by Sidney Lumet, is one of those works that defies labels. They call it satire, they call it a parody of the American television system, but the truth is that it […]
ARMANI AFTER ARMANI: A FLAWLESS TRANSITION. THE NEW BOARD PROVES HE HAD A CLEAR VISION UNTIL THE VERY END
Armani’s genius endured to his final day. The succession at Armani has not been an improvised move, nor a race against time. On the contrary, it confirms how Giorgio Armani remained fully lucid—until his last […]
AI IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND THE HYPOTHESIS OF A NEW HUMAN
As we know, artificial intelligence is entering all government departments, including scientific research. In the United States, the government has chosen to significantly increase the percentage of AI employed in research processes, especially in the […]
DENIM THAT NEVER DIES BUT CONSTANTLY REINVENTS ITSELF: FROM AMERICAN ROOTS TO JAPANESE MASTERY
Denim doesn’t need to “come back into fashion” because it never truly left. It simply resurfaces, reclaiming the spotlight with the natural ease of something woven—literally and culturally—into our collective imagination. This was evident […]
PITTI UOMO 109 — MOTION, FASHION MOVES TO THE RHYTHM OF TRANSFORMATION
PITTI UOMO 109 From January 13 to 16, 2026, Florence returns to being the center of the men’s world. The Fortezza da Basso hosts the 109th edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo, where over seven hundred […]
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