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By Katie Abel   "Paris is such a great place for inspiration. It's so glamorous. The light is different here — I love it," said Gianvito Rossi a little more than a month before the devastating terrorist attacks in the French Capital. On this Sunday afternoon during Paris Fashion Week, the mood was energetic across the City of Light. &n...

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"You can't find it here," she'd say of her body-hugging magenta dress with all the cutouts, encapsulating the entirety of these United States of America in a syllable — "here" — and a shrug. "It's from Italy." Some of her clothes were produced by big name designers, while others bore Italian-named labels we'd never heard of. But who made the garmen...

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The cloak of time that concealed them – not to mention the green grass that covered them – is gone at last, and the precious polychrome "fan-shaped" mosaics in [one of the] palaestrae of the Baths of Caracalla (Rome), dating back to the third century AD, have resumed their ancient luster thanks to the restoration work begun in 2015.   The pr...

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Aeffe USA is shutting the doors of its Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti boutique in New York. The company accepted Ferrim USA's proposal Wednesday to prematurely break the lease the fashion company had at 452 West Broadway.   Aeffe USA is the property of Aeffe SpA, a company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange that controls the Moschino, Albe...

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  WTI Magazine #37    2014 July, 2Author : Maria Teresa Squillaci      Translation by:   Today's big fashion news is that Giambattista Valli is introducing a new ready-to-wear line called Giamba, less than 10 years after he launched his own label.So what can we expect from this new line? Giambattista himself described it as powerful, active, on...

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Years ago—more years than I like to tell myself—I lived in Rome. And if you know anything about Rome, you know that every cliché is true: The pasta is that good, the pizza is that good, too, the city is a museum, the laundry hanging from the lines really is how they dry their clothes, and an Italian would run over his nonna for a properly ripened t...

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Entrepreneurship is probably difficult to acquire. But some men are just born with the gift. With ideas like milking wildebeest in Africa to how to fit a camera in a phone, Federico Marchetti, CEO and founder of the Yoox group, always knew he was meant to be an entrepreneur. It was just a matter of which direction to take.   "I realised I wo...

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The United Nations Association of New York gathered inside the J.W. Marriott Essex House on Thursday evening to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the U.N., and to award three individuals at the 2015 United Nations Day Humanitarian Awards Gala dinner. This year's event, themed "2015 and Beyond: Education and Equality for All," honored Marco Bizzarr...

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The Italian family that's owned the luxury suiting company Ermenegildo Zegna for four generations and Taconic Investment Partners picked up an office building in the Flatiron District for $65 million. The Zegna family closed in June on 61 West 23rd Street, a seven-story cast iron building spanning just over 50,000 square feet, sources told The...

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by Benedetta Cicconi   The story of Valentina Socci, a well-established fashion photographer, who left her beloved city of Milan, Italy, to devote herself to a successful career in Hollywood, reminds of a beautiful modern tale. Over the last few years, she has achieved very good results and all of her efforts have been rewarded. Valentina S...

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