{"id":72028,"date":"2014-04-09T15:53:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T13:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/pin\/week-march-28-april-3\/"},"modified":"2014-04-09T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T13:53:43","slug":"week-march-28-april-3","status":"publish","type":"pin","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/pin\/week-march-28-april-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The week of March 28 \u2013 April 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Salone del Mobile, center stage of Italian design \u2013 <\/strong>The 53rd<\/sup> edition of the Salone del Mobile is around the corner and the foreign press looked towards Milan where the event, which brings the city into the limelight of design, is a pole of attraction for Expo 2015  (Financial Times<\/em>, March 28  – Round-up of Milan\u2019s Salone del Mobile and parallel design events<\/a>). Brazilian papers are following the appointment with particular attention, reporting on the participation of its own designers in the world\u2019s major design fair (March 29  in Valor Economico<\/em> – O design brasileiro na Feira de Mil\u00e3o<\/a>; O Globo<\/em> – Evento em Mil\u00e3o apresenta trabalho de designers do Rio<\/a>). According to the Financial Times<\/em>, on the other hand, Italian design is still showing vitality, as seen in the successful exhibit of the work of Piero Fornasetti<\/strong> at the Milan Triennial and the fact that design is following the money-making path of fashion (March 28  – Fornasetti and the Italian design houses seeking brand success<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Leading figures of the economy<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cThe new FCA will ultimately produce 6 million cars a year.\u201d The stockholders\u2019 meeting of the Fiat Chrysler <\/strong>group, held in Turin, was widely reported in the foreign press. The center of attention was the group\u2019s prospects for growth explained by Sergio Marchionne (March 31  su Washington Post<\/em> – Fiat Chrysler: can boost output to 6M cars a year<\/a>; Bloomberg<\/em> – Fiat Chief Eyes Annual Sales of 7 Million After Chrysler Merger<\/a>; O Globo<\/em> – Fiat poder\u00e1 produzir mais de 6 milh\u00f5es de carros por ano at\u00e9 2018, diz CEO<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Another economic Italian news was related to the stock Exchange listing of the asset manager Anima<\/strong> (New York Times<\/em>, March 28  – Italy\u2019s Anima Receives Regulatory Approval for I.P.O.<\/a>) and the 2013 annual report of Salini Impregilo<\/strong>, with an interview of the group president Pietro Salini on the business environment in Italy (Financial Times, <\/em>March 28  – Salini Impreglio \u2013 upbeat on Italy<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Fashion and Made in Italy luxury goods<\/strong> \u2013 A London exhibition, \u201cThe Glamour of Italian Fashion: 1945-2014,\u201d is dedicated to Italian luxury design (New York Times<\/em>, March 31  – Italy\u2019s High Fashion on the Factory Floor<\/a>; The Times<\/em>, April 2  – Milan moves to win back its fashion crown,<\/a> Washington Post<\/em>, April 2  – Glamour of Italian fashion on show in London<\/a>). The appointment gave the foreign press the opportunity to talk about the sector\u2019s economic importance (Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em>, April 2  – Why Fashion Means Business for Italy<\/a>). There was another exhibit in Brazil dedicated to \u201cItalian Glamour,\u201d which brought 116 creations of Italian fashion to Rio de Janeiro (O Globo<\/em>, March 29   – Exposi\u00e7\u00e3o traz ao Rio pe\u00e7as dos maiores nomes da moda italiana<\/a>). Finally, the Wall Street Journal<\/em> and Le Figaro<\/em> reported on Prada<\/strong>\u2019s prospects for growth (April 2 – Prada Plans to Double Menswear Business<\/a>;  Les secrets de Prada pour grandir plus vite qu\u2019Herm\u00e8s, Gucci et Louis Vuitton<\/a>), and El Pais<\/em> had an article on the creation of Italia Indipendent<\/strong> April 3  – El \u00faltimo pr\u00edncipe de Italia<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Tourism and Italian cuisine<\/strong> \u2013 An alliance of the great names of the coffee sector to find the DNA of the best of the brew. Illy<\/strong> and Lavazza <\/strong> will co-finance the genetic sequencing of Arabic coffee to improve the quality of the product served to consumers, and the news was reported by the Brazilian paper Valor Economico<\/em>  (March 31  – Em nome de um caf\u00e9 de melhor qualidade<\/a>) and the German paper Die Welt<\/em> (March 28  –  Italiener f\u00fcrchten Kaffeekrise<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Finally, while the Financial Times<\/em> went to Ferrara<\/strong> for the palio (March 28  – The Palio of Ferrara<\/a>), the New York Times<\/em> went to Piedmont<\/strong>, which it called one of the few places that offers such a high concentration of wonderful, local red wines and the home of nebbiolo (March 28  – Traipsing the Terroir of Nebbiolo<\/a>). The American paper also offered its readers the recipe for a classic of Italian cooking, eggplant parmesan (April 2  – Eggplant Parmesan<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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