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A grand tourer is really just a sports car in a luxury wrapper. You get power and performance, of course, but in a package you could use as a daily driver and enjoy on a road trip. If we hop in our time machine, Maserati essentially invented this class of car 75 years ago with the 1947 A6 1500. Their latest version, the new 2024 GranTurismo, is eve...

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Ah, Borsalino! The hat of hats, the headwear of stars! It's a name long familiar to gourmets of fine hats around the world, but today, is almost invisible in the USA. And these days, not everyone will jump at the chance to spend several hundred dollars on a fedora. Nonetheless, Borsalino has been an icon of the Italian fashion market for 160 years...

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At Friday’s Loro Piana presentation in the center of Milan, a stand of mannequins comprised what was informally referred to as the Succession section, a nod to one reason why the 99-year-old uber-luxury brand is currently having a surprising moment of hype. When the show returns to the airwaves for its fourth and final season next month, Jeremy Str...

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The history of cinema is a tapestry woven with black and white masterpieces long before color film was even a glimmer in the eye of the film industry. Though it may be hard to believe today, for reasons both economic and moralistic, images in color were considered out of proportion, eccentric, almost obscene. As such, until the mid-1930s, cinema wa...

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Santo Versace enters the Milan cathedral in silence. It is July 22, 1997, the day of his brother’s funeral, the fashion guru Gianni Versace. The mass is at 6:00 p.m. “Donatella clings to my arm; the veil covers her gaze. I try to be strong. I encourage her to stay strong. Many people surround us, but we feel deeply alone.” These words are from an i...

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Joe Walsh’s Maserati couldn’t have done 185. But the grizzled guitarist would surely lose his license in the 2024 Maserati GranTurismo Folgore: The first EV from any high-end Italian brand tops out at 202 mph, and dusts past 60 mph in 2.6 seconds. “Life’s Been Good” should be the motto of anyone flush enough for a GranTurismo; whether in the Folgor...

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Tackling adventurous terrain aside from its Urus sibling, the all-new Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato presents an offroad-driven appearance that introduces a completely unique sector for the Italian supercar manufacturer. Since the Huracán Sterrato's dramatic unveiling at Miami's Art Basel week, Automobili Lamborghini decided to document its rigorous...

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It was announced today the Italian Trade Agency (ITA), in collaboration with Confindustria - the main association representing manufacturing and service companies in Italy - is supporting Italian design by debuting its first-ever fashion “roadshow”, INSPR ITALIA Innovations In Style starting in March in Los Angeles, CA. The roadshow will then move...

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Among all the manufacturers who hail from Italy, there are two names that stand out as the best: Ducati and Lamborghini. Two storied brands with incredible heritage producing the highest level superbikes, and supercars. Now imagine if both brands took what they're best at and combined it into one spectacular machine. You'd get the Ducati Diavel 126...

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The Stony Brook University Center for Italian Studies has announced that the 17th annual Robert D. Cess Concorso d’Eleganza Annual Celebration of Italian Vehicle Excellence and Beauty will be held on Sunday, September 10, 2023. The show, which is free and open to the public, is extremely popular among auto enthusiasts and features examples of “art...

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