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Salvatore Ferragamo – founder of the today well known fashion house – was a cobbler who moved to the United States to start his new business in the early 1900s. He first started in Santa Barbara (California), opening up a shop called the “Hollywood Boot Shop”. It was a time of great development of the cinema industry in loco and Salvatore soon beca...

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Let’s jump to the north of Italy; let’s go to Milan! Milan l’è on gran Milan, a Milanese would say. Let’s debunk the idea that in the north people don’t speak dialects anymore, even in the city of Milan the dialect struggles but still survives. The Milanese language is a variation of the Longobard language, language that has been recognized by the...

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In teoria il made in Italy alimentare non avrebbe bisogno di novità, ma in pratica quando le novità arrivano è giusto segnalarle, dalle prime banane coltivate in Sicilia sotto la spinta dei cambiamenti climatici al caviale di storione il cui allevamento è stato da poco riconosciuto come attività agricola, dopo che l’Italia ha conquistato il primato...

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He is known as the master of shade, and now 21st Century technology is shedding new light on the creative process behind Caravaggio's groundbreaking painting. "Inside Caravaggio", an exhibition that opens on Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale, unites 20 of the Renaissance giant's most important works with X-ray and infrared images of them that offer v...

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TIT FOR TAT: “Is Milan relevant in fashion? Our answer is yes,” stated Italy’s Corriere della Sera this week, reacting to a New York Times article that questioned the focus and importance of Italian designers. “No, we don’t agree [with the accusations],” said the Corriere. “Who says that quality does not mean creativity? The first cannot exclude th...

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Solare’s Accursio Lota nabs top prize. Eater recently reported that chef Accursio Lota of Liberty Station’s Solare Ristorante would be one of only two chefs chosen to represent the USA at the Barilla Pasta World Championship in Italy this week. After three rounds of competition in Milan, and beating out 19 chefs from other countries around the worl...

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For some of us of a certain age, at least in North America, our first exposure to Alfa Romeo was probably seeing one on the screen, likely The Graduate, the 1967 now-classic dramedy starring a young Dustin Hoffman and his character’s 1600 Duetto Spider. Personally, I was too busy immersing myself in the minutia that was Detroit’s wild and wonderful...

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Nella giornata di mercoledì 20 settembre si è tenuta la prima edizione della AmCham Advocacy Conference, evento interamente dedicato alla presentazione delle attività di advocacy di AmCham Italy.  All’iniziativa hanno preso parte oltre 140 persone, in rappresentanza di istituzioni, aziende, associazioni di categoria e camere di commercio estere. Do...

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At Milan’s Salone del Mobile in 1971, Florentine architect Lapo Binazzi assembled polyurethane pieces into a Doric temple, queued up his sound track, and pressed play. “Our dream was to ruin the temple to the ground, to the sound of an earthquake,” remembers Binazzi, now 74 and still based in Florence. The practical application of the remaining chu...

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Date: October 17, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Location: Palazzo Lombardia, 39th floor, Milan, Italy. On October 17 in occasion of Panorama d’Italia week in Milan, the Italian Business and Investment Initiative in cooperation with the American Chamber of Commerce In Italy, its co-promoters and sponsors is proud to bring the VII Summit “Italy meets...

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