Monthly Archives: March 2020

What has Prada got to do with a women's religious order and with inmates in Italian prisons? Fashionistas, please don't fret, Miuccia hasn't decided to become a nun and she hasn't been arrested. The common factor between them is the … Continue reading →

Public life has shut down due to the Coronavirus crisis. The present is fluid: time seems to be defined only by the latest news about the global pandemic that has radically changed our lives. The future remains therefore uncertain: we … Continue reading →

Sundays are usually quiet affairs, but if you're in a lockdown and in quarantine because of Coronavirus, they may become extremely dull days.  Yet there are ways to relieve the boredom and stress and get (at least for a short … Continue reading →

"For weeks now it has been evening. Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our streets and our cities; it has taken over our lives, filling everything with a deafening silence and a distressing void, that stops everything as it … Continue reading →

At the end of of February, when Coronavirus had already started spreading in the north of Italy, a bizarre picture went viral on social media: it showed a man walking in via Toledo, in the centre of Naples, wearing not … Continue reading →

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice may have been postponed until 29th August because of the Coronavirus outbreak, but architecture isn't stopping in this emergency. Quite a few architects and designers have indeed been working on projects to improve … Continue reading →

Lombardy is the Italian region that got most badly affected by Coronavirus, so let's virtually visit Milan today, going back in time with two videos recently posted by Marco Poma's Metamorphosi Editrice YouTube channel (with many thanks to Milan-based crocheter … Continue reading →

Actress Lucia Bosè died yesterday at the General Hospital of Segovia at the age of 89 from pneumonia complicated by COVID-19. Born in 1931 in Milan, from Domenico Borloni and Francesca Bosè, the actress was discovered by Luchino Visconti while she … Continue reading →

We should have been celebrating the first day of Spring last week, but the thoughts of most of us are currently taken by the Coronavirus pandemic. But, despite the emergency is ruling (and ruining…) our lives, for today let's try … Continue reading →

In the last few posts we looked at Italy-based companies manufacturing luxury products still open for business despite the country is in a lockdown caused by Coronavirus outbreak, and at companies reconverting production to manufacture face masks. Things have changed … Continue reading →