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83-year-old Italian graphic designer Massimo Vignelli has a long list of iconic designs to his credit, including branding for American Airlines, Bloomingdales, and IBM, as well as the map for the New York City subway system.   According to Creative Review, Vignelli is "very ill" and in his last days, he and his son Luca are asking "all those...

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Raffaele Caruso SpA, an Italian suitmaker backed by China's Fosun International Ltd. (656), yesterday opened its first store, in New York, the initial step in a plan to create a global retail network for the luxury tailor.   Caruso, which makes suits for companies including Christian Dior SA, plans to open a "flagship" outlet every six month...

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Italian fashion company Miu Miu opened a shop in the Miami Design District on Thursday, according to WWD. The two-level store takes up 5,435 square feet and is located at 190 NE 39th Street. The luxurious design features floor-to-ceiling mirrors on the ground floor, a black marble staircase and gold damask-lined display cases. The bottom floo...

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A new way to move around town, "democratic", eco-friendly and Made in Italy: the new Askoll electric bike eB1 and electric scooter eS1 are already in stores.   The sleek innovative vehicles, the first devoted to the electric mobility entirely designed and manufactured in Italy, stem from the collaboration between Emo design, the industrial d...

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  WTI Magazine #60    2015 May, 15Author : livingadamis.it      Translation by:   Azimut Yachts has been one of the protagonists in the 32nd edition of the Palma Boat Show, held from April 30 to May 4, 2015 in the port of Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The 2015 edition of the Palma Boat Show was the biggest ever, attracting visitors from around the w...

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Italian fashion and culture descend on Philadelphia this October, with two events hosted by Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design – a screening of a new documentary on Italian master tailors on Oct. 2 and a seminar on the rich history of Italian footwear on Oct. 15.   The events are part of Ciao Philadelp...

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Adam Nathaniel Furman, architect and winner of this year's Blueprint Award for Design Innovation, is currently undertaking his tenure as the recipient of the 2014/15 Rome Prize for Architecture at the British School at Rome.   His ongoing project, entitled The Roman Singularity, seeks to explore and celebrate Rome as "the contemporary city p...

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WTI Magazine #5    2013 Nov, 15Author : Annalisa Lospinuso for PoisonDrops      Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti   The story of a boy coming from Voghera who has become a symbol of the Italian fashion in the world, a story narrated by those who had the chance to meet him and work with him during these years. "Valentino. Ritratto a più voci dell...

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Presented by VStyle Productions, the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc., and the Boston GreenFest, the eco-fashion was held on June 21 at the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston and featured collections inspired by a different element: air, water, fire and earth. The featured designers were Restored by Design by Martha Jackson as Air, Instilla by Val...

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It's been used as an anaesthetic, a disinfectant to clean wounds (like Bourbon in Western movies), and a treatment for intestinal worms. It was the liquid courage carried in Italian soldiers' flasks in World War One to sanitise their drinking water, warm them up and lift their spirits.   And you can still find World War Two veterans who reme...

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