Fashion – Milan Fashion Week means that the Lombard capital has attracted the attention of the world’s press this week. Le Monde celebrated the “return” of the big Italian names (September 26 – La Fashion Week signe le retour des grandes maisons italiennes*), whilst el Pais explained how those big names can lay claim to a type of “slow fashion” – thanks to artisans in the sector and their singular way of interpreting quality (September 23 – Milán no tiene prisa). The foreign papers have also had something to say on the current strategies of individual labels, including Gucci and Prada (El Pais, September 23 – El festín de Gucci y Prada) and Fendi (New York Times, September 22 – In the Studio With Silvia Fendi). Dolce & Gabbana’s “Tropico italiano” collection, which takes a new look at the aesthetic codes of Southern Italy, was the subject of several articles. (Les Echos, September 26 – Fashion Week Femme Printemps-Eté 2017 : Dolce & Gabbana, carte postale italienne*; Financial Times, September 25 – Dolce & Gabbana SS17 show report: Milan Fashion Week*; The Guardian, September 25 – Dolce & Gabbana makes a tilt at Generation Z. Young talents in the sector also got a mention, with the Washington Post saying that theirs was “the last word” on Milan’s Fashion Week (September 26 –Youth has final word as Milan Fashion Week wraps up). The New York Times was on the fringe of the shows to talk about a charity event organized by fashion world to raise funds for the fight against AIDS (September 25 – In Milan, Fashion Turns Out to Support amfAR*) whilst the Wall Street Journal underlined its view that it is the social network strategies of the big names rather than the collections themselves that were the real stars of the week (September 28 – At Milan Fashion Week, Clothes Weren’t the Stars).
Big shots of the economic world Expansion ran an interview with Luca Parasacco, CEO of Spain’s FCA, who was happy to talk about a year of spectacular commercial success (September 26 – Luca Parasacco: “Se va consolidando el concepto de pagar por uso, no por propiedad”), whilst the Financial Times dedicated a piece to Paolo Vitelli, “the man who rescued Azimut Benetti’s yachts (September 28 – Paolo Vitelli: the clubbable businessman who rescued Benetti*).
Food, wine & tourism – Several articles this week in which these sectors were intertwined. The Financial Times was back in the Cinque Terre to explain how new safeguards may well attract new investments in the area (September 23 – Italy’s Cinque Terre: will a limit on visitors boost home prices?), other pieces focused on Rome with Liberation talking about dining at the Glass Hostaria where chef Cristina Bowerman is wowing the nation’s capital (September 23 – Cristina Bowerman, l’anti trattoria), whilst El Pais explained that the pizzerias of the Eternal City are a particular weakness of Spanish writer Maxim Huerta (September 23 – Pizza de masa fina en Roma). Pizzas continued to feature with El Pais taking a look at the best pizzerias in Naples (September 24 – Las mejores pizzas napolitanas) and the Financial Times was also talking about Pizza, but this time in London, where the city’s pizzerias are going back to basics (September 23 – London pizzerias — not a pineapple in sight*).
The German press were all over Tuscany this week, with Sueddeutsche Zeitung writing about traditional and innovative winemaking in Chianti (September 26 – Italiens Lieblingswein sucht neues Image) and in a feature article on Garfagnana that set out how this particular wine district is attempting to relaunch its wine production thanks to innovative ideas introduced by local residents Das Experiment). On the other hand, it was the Island of Elba that was of interest to die Welt as it went in search of Napoleon (September 28 – Napoleon wie ein Heiliger verehrt wird).
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