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Suzanne Branciforte: Edvige, you’re a teacher of memoir writing. What are your roots, origins and story? Edvige Giunta: I am Italian, and American, Sicilian, Sicilian-American, European. I have multiple identities. Memoir became an opportunity to bring together threads of identity and cultural experience. It’s an antidote to cultural displacement....

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Filthy rich and already boast enough glass slippers to win a dozen princes? Italian shoemaker Antonio Vietri has the thing for you: 24-carat gold shoes. Vietri, from Turin in northern Italy, hopes to attract shoppers from wealthy Gulf countries with his blue or black suede moccasins with stitched gold-plated uppers.| "These are the first shoes in t...

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veryday luxury,” the term once considered an oxymoron, has gained international acceptance thanks to the transformative talents of Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli. After all, the man who admits to playing soccer in a cashmere sweater knows his rough sweats from silk parachute pants. His concept was never more apparent than on the catwalk at the...

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An unprecedented alliance has created a new sort of school, the Motor Vehicle University of Emilia-Romagna (Muner). On one side, the automotive giants spread along Via Emilia, famous around the world such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Ducati, Maserati, Dallara, Toro Rosso, Haas and Magneti Marelli. On the other, universities of the region—Bologna, Moden...

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Ever wonder if you’re doing your coffee break correctly? According to the Italians, you’re probably doing it wrong — but they also have the fix. It’s called caffè corretto and means literally a corrected coffee. And it’s the best coffee break we’ve ever heard of. Caffè corretto is one way Italians get a daily dose of espresso and one of hard liquor...

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When: Thursday, April 20, 2017 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm. Where: Italian Cultural Institute of New York. Organized by : ICI. Entrance : Free Fabrizio Freda, CEO of Estée Lauder, is the guest of the fourth of a series of events which focus on the excellence of Italian human capital and personal success stories by presenting Italian top managers holdin...

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Dal 31 marzo al 2 aprile prossimi, presso lo Javits Convention Center di New York, si terrà la 31esima edizione dell’International Vision Expo East, manifestazione leader dell’occhialeria negli Stati Uniti ed uno tra i principali appuntamenti nel mondo, cui Agenzia ICE, in collaborazione con l’ANFAO-Associazione Nazionale Fabbricanti Articoli Ottic...

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I have lived for fifteen years outside of Italy and had to endure the oh-so-harsh reality my beloved adoptive country knew next to nothing about aperitivo: the ritual, the food and, crucially, the drinks. Honed by years of aperitivo practice in the elegantly baroque squares of Turin, once abroad I had often to tell bartenders how to make my drink o...

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From the earliest days our ancestors walked this earth they sought out activities during their leisure time to amuse themselves or else divert their attention from the rigors of life. These activities are today collectively called “entertainment”. Whether passive forms of entertainment, such as spectator sports or reading, or active forms, such as...

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Amid the boom and revolution of Milan in 1967, artists, writers and eccentrics of all stripes fueled their creative ferment with drinks at the legendary Bar Jamaica. There, the son of a Milanese goldsmith hatched a bar-side plan for a new kind of jewelry: Aimed at the era’s freewheeling feminists, it would be expressive yet easy to wear, blending I...

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