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Herno’s ‘Made in Italy’ fabrics have been at the heart of the outerwear label since its beginnings as a producer of raincoats in 1948. Seeking protection from the elements, founder Giuseppe Marenzi and his wife Alessandra Diana discovered a way to treat cotton with castor oil from abandoned Second World War warplanes to make it waterproof.  Seven d...

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Announced a few months ago, “Someone Down There Loves Me” a new homage docu-film on Massimo Troisi, will be presented at Berlinale. Troisi, who played the simple postman who rides his bicycle on the sandy terrain of an Italian island to deliver mail to his sole client, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, died tragically of congenital heart f...

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While the Lamborghini Broward dealership hosted high society attendees from southern Florida, the Westlake location had a higher number of clinking expensive champagne glasses, with people hailing not only from northern L.A., but from the Malibu and Santa Barbara communities as well. The re-opening ribbon-cutting ceremony was meant to show people a...

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Despite my love for Italy’s over-the-top Baroque art and sleek, modern accessories, I’m a fairly modest and spendthrifty person. But that does not mean that I don’t covet a design item, an objet d’art, from time to time. Where on earth would I put a Fornasetti decorative plate of a dome from a famous Italian building such as the Pantheon? My grandm...

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The newest trend for express cruisers in North American waters is based on a centuries-old Italian fishing boat. The traditional gozzo rounded stern and bow are immediately recognizable, and while the original style featured masts and sails, today’s interpretations are more likely to have planing hulls and high-performance engines.  But true aficio...

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In Emilia-Romagna the honor roll of foods is led by pasta made with fresh eggs and rolled by hand by a sfoglina to achieve perfect texture. The universal primo is tagliatelle con ragù, though cooks consider the meat sauce personal works of art. Bologna, whose specialties include green lasagna and curly gramigna, disputes with Modena the creation of...

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The United States is attracting luxury houses more than ever. While Chanel has just flown to Miami, where it showed its 2022/23 cruise collection on Friday, November 4, Versace announced that it will hold a show on March 10 in Los Angeles to unveil its women's and men's fall-winter 2022/23 collection. The event will be held two days before the Osca...

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Even frequent travelers to Italy aren’t likely to have heard about the small village of Custoza and its rich wine heritage that is waiting to be discovered. Custoza is tucked—you might even say hidden—in the municipality of Sommacampagna, in the province of Verona, in the Veneto region of northeast Italy. It has a population of less than 1000 peopl...

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Andreani, known throughout Europe as the premier distributor of motorcycle and bicycle suspension products, announced today the opening of their first U.S. office and distribution center, located in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The facility is building a stock of products from their own lines as well as well-known brands that will be distributed...

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The story of Luxottica is the epitome of the American Dream but it happened in Italy. It is the largest eyewear-producing company in the world and, more likely than not, your own glasses are a Luxottica product, if you think it owns iconic brands like Persol, Ray-Ban, Vogue, and produces for Prada, Miu Miu, Chanel, Burberry, Armani, Dolce & Gabbana...

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