The story of Missoni begins in 1953 when Ottavio Missoni and his wife Rosita Jelmini create a small workshop in their home in Gallarate where the unmistakable colorful knitwear is born and so they found the company that will revolutionize knitwear made in Italy.  Ottavio, Italian athletics champion in the 400 meters, already owned a business dedica...

You know the rule: children inherit their father’s surname automatically in most countries of the world, with the notable exception, for instance, of Spain and South America, where both are given, but only the father’s passing on further. For a long time, having your mother’s surname or a double-barreled one was considered out of the ordinary in It...

At this year’s International Yacht & Aviation Awards, the Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63 yacht won the “Motor Yacht under 25 meters” category, and for good reason. It’s the iconic marine collaboration between Lamborghini and the Italian Sea Group, and the perfect distillation of what a Lamborghini would be like if it were a boat. Inspired by the desig...

Many of you are probably familiar with La Cucina Italiana, the famous Italian culinary magazine which, since 1929, has been collecting, discussing, and presenting food trends and recipes from the peninsula.  Besides being a treasure trove of recipes and ideas to use in the kitchen, the magazine also became, in 2020, a spokesperson for an important...

Toscano Master Aged Cigar Series is a new range of Premium cigars made and rolled by Manifatture Sigaro Toscano exclusively for selected countries (today it is only available in USA, Germany, Austria, Spain, Romania and Serbia). Toscano Master Aged was born from an idea of the Toscano Master Blender to create a unique making process with an extra m...

After a professional career in basketball that brought me all the way up to the Italian national team, I decided to start over and put myself to the test”. After an important phase in his life, young and talented Marco Salari started a new chapter by betting again on himself and his tenacity. He returned to the United States, where he was born, and...

An Italy-based industrial filter manufacturer is expanding its presence in Delaware County. Filtrec says it will invest more than $1 million to establish its new North American headquarters and an assembly plant just south of Muncie and create up to 21 jobs by the end of the year. Filtrec acquired the former Taurus Tool building near State Road 67...

If Tuscany has Chianti, the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna has “Motor Valley”, an area that boasts one of the highest concentrations of luxury sports cars and motorbikes in the world. The so-called Land of Motors, covering around 1,000 square kilometres of prime agricultural land roughly between Bologna and Modena, is home to Lamborghini and Ferr...

Ermenegildo Zegna’s story is the story of a family business that begins when Michelangelo Zegna opens a textile factory in Trivero, Piedmont, at the end of the nineteenth century, an area where wool production was very flourishing thanks to the numerous waterways. Later three of his ten children, including Ermenegildo, and a fourth partner founded ...

Dopo Olanda e Cina il progetto di networking di Altagamma si amplia negli USA con il lancio dell’Altagamma Club New York, che ha come obiettivo promuovere la creatività, l’eccellenza, la qualità e lo stile di vita dell’Italia negli Stati Uniti, mercato di riferimento per l’alto di gamma italiano. Il primo incontro del Club di Altagamma a New York è...