Milano and Digital Fashion Week – The foreign press is shining the spotlight on fashion brands on the occasion of Milan’s first “Digital Fashion Week”: the virtual runways have been opened by Prada, which has made 5 videos with collections at its Foundation’s locations (14 July in The New York Times –Prada Headlines Milan’s First Digital Fashion Week*; The Guardian – ‘Show that never happened’: Prada’s digital hangover in Milan), while Dolce&Gabbana is going through with a live show, in an event on the campus of Humanitas University, also in the Lombard capital. (The New York Times, July 15 – Dolce&Gabbana Preserve the Live Fashion Show During Pandemic).
Coverage is also devoted to the economic performance of Armani, which during the just-ended 2019 financial year has returned to sales growth (Reuters, July 10 – Italy’s Armani returned to sales growth in 2019). Lastly, The New York Times covers a combination of luxury and solidarity with Bulgari, which “adds vaccine research to its creations” through the launch of the multimillion-euro Virus Free Fund to finance doctoral grants at Oxford (July 10 – Bulgari Adds Vaccine Research to Its Creations*).
Science and technology – Oxford, explains Bloomberg Businessweek, is also in the vanguard in producing the coronavirus vaccine, and will start clinical testing in September – an achievement attained thanks to months of work, “into the evenings and over weekends,” with the Italian manufacturer Advent” (July 15 – Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of Her Competition). The Guardian, on the other hand, celebrates the technology with which the Mont Blanc Tunnel was built, offering images from 1965 when, with “a small fracture in national frontiers,” the “world’s longest road tunnel” was inaugurated (July 15 – ‘A small fracture in national frontiers’: the Mont Blanc road tunnel opens – archive, 1965). Coverage is also devoted to sustainability with Bloomberg reporting on Eni’s commitment to and investment in green technologies (July 13 – Eni to Exit Traditional Oil Refineries in Next Decade).
Tourism and wine & food – In tourism, L’Orient Le Jour is off to discover the “enchanted principality of Seborga,” the “micronation” consisting of a small town in the province of Imperia, “enveloped in mystery” (July 14 – Sur la Riviera italienne, le « royaume enchanté » de Seborga), while The Wall Street Journal pays a visit to Tuscany in search of a “dream home” (July 15 – Homebuying Tour of Italy*).
Lastly, in wine & food, Financial Times offers the artist Annie Morris’s recipes for spaghetti all’arrabbiata (July 13 – How I Spend It . . . Annie Morris on arrabbiata*), and reports on growing sales of Italian wines, pointing out that 2020 might see “an explosion” for certain regions like Piedmont that are gaining on France’s primacy (July 13 – Italian wines go full forza ahead*)
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