Fashion and style in Milan – Fashion week and more. The beginning of the Milan fashion shows was the spark that led to many articles on made in Italy luxury goods in the foreign press. Some papers concentrated on the collections on the catwalk (The Times, September 17 – Milan Fashion Week s/s 2015 in pictures*), while others narrated the strategies of single brands (Reuters, September 17 – Italy’s Furla plans sales push to cash in on affordable luxury boom). There were also interviews and profiles of well-known Italians in the fashion business, such as the creative director of Gucci, Frida Giannini (The Times Magazine, September 13 – Gucci’s feminist fashionista*) and the director of Vogue Italia Franca Sozzani (The Times Magazine, September 13 – Franca Sozzani: still ahead of the pack*).
The international press also took advantage of Fashion Week to tour the city. They toured the new Galleria – now a destination for fashion fans, with the arrival of houses of the caliber of Versace (Wall Street Journal, September 18 – Milan Remakes Galleria as Fashion Destination*; The New York Times, 16 – Versace Helps a Restoration) and some novelties for tourists, for example Moxy, the new hotel that Ikea has just opened at Malpensa Airport (Financial Times, September 12 – Milan’s Moxy: Ikea’s first hotel)
The many forms of Italian culture – As usual, the foreign press wrote about Italian culture. In cinema, the Wall Street Journal rediscovered the masterpieces by Roberto Rossellini, Roma Città Aperta (September 12 – A Thrilling Call to Conscience and Hope), while El Mundo published a photogallery of Sophia Loren and her fabulous 80 years (September 15 – Sophia Loren, la octogenaria fabulosa).
For literature, El Pais remembered Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (September 11 – Recuerdos del príncipe de Lampedusa), and the Sunday supplement, El Pais Semanal, dedicated a long article to Noble Prize winner Dario Fo (September 12 – Dario Fo: “No hay conciencia social para sacar adelante el mundo”). Le Monde concentrated on painting, telling the story of Perugino for the exhibit in Paris, showing the works of the Renaissance master (September 15 – Le Pérugin, dans l’ombre de Raphaël).
Finally, there was an article on the culture of Italians living in New York, and the photo exhibit “ItaliaNY” (Wall Street Journal, September 14 – Italian Flair Meets New York Style)
Recipes for Italian cooking – The foreign press dedicated a great deal of attention to italian cuisine. In its supplement Style, the New York Times ran an article on the italian culinary tradition: from eggplant parmesan (September 14 – Eggplant Parmesan), to spaghetti with anchovies and breadcrumbs (September 14 – Spaghetti With Garlicky Bread Crumbs and Anchovies), marinara sauce (September 14 – Marinara Sauce), and ribollita (14 – Ribollita). The Wall Street Journal also gave instructions on Italian cooking, which – on September 12 – explained how to make cavatelli by hand (Unplug Your Pasta Making: A Recipe for Handmade Cavatelli).
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