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Get Loud! | Interview with Rock Band KingQueen
The rock band KingQueen might be based in LA, but if you consider the fact that Sabrina, the lead singer, is a Polish-Italian raised in Sweden, while the bassist, Marky, is American and the guitarist and drummer, Dario and Edoardo, are both Italian, then the group starts to seem more Italian than American! Despite what...
An Honorable Italian Tattoo Artist | Interview with Marco Cerretelli
Since I’d heard that Marco Cerretelli’s career as a tattoo artist began with a prison style tattoo gun crafted from a walkman, toothbrush and pen, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I went to meet him on a beautiful sunny day in West Hollywood. Born and raised in Campi di Bisenzio outside of...
Short Circuits on a Planetary Level | Interview with Italian Designer Stefano Mirti
The Global Italian One year in the U.S., three years in Tokyo and ten years of traveling back and forth to Bangkok to visit his partner. Italian designer Stefano Mirti might be born and raised in Turin and work in Milan, but he is, without a doubt, an international designer. Even before he began...
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Party Hard and Be Yourself | Interview with Turbofunk Italians RESET!
Rocoe changes gears to Turbo drive Reset! is a collective of four young DJs who divide their time between creating music and managing the business behind it. Starting with a remix for Cassius, they’ve created parties where people have fun while listening to energy-driven happy music. The result is a fresh new genre of...
Let’s buy some Happiness | Interview with Michael Scarpellini
Sharing Italian positivity one T-shirt at a time Michael Scarpellini and his wife Eiman Hamza have taken the Italian word “felicità” and, translating it into Happiness, have created a brand that not only stands for great clothes, but also shares a positive state of being with its employees, collaborators, customers and the founders themselves. The...
The Parallel Lives of a Young Olympian | Interview with Italian Gymnast Carlotta Ferlito
A member of the Italian artistic gymnastics team, Carlotta Ferlito is a young girl with a strong personality. She had just returned to Italy from the 19th French International FIG World Cup with a gold medal for the balance beam and a bronze for floor exercises when she had to leave again to take part to...
Rediscovering Elegance from Naples to Bali | Interview with Rocco A. Galluccio
Rocco Adriano Galluccio is the founder and creative director of Alcoolique, an Italian fashion line. Rocco might be a young guy, but he has already done a lot. While travelling across the world he has picked up the colors and flavors of different cultures and combined them with his own native Neapolitan style to produce...
Wingsuit Flying | Alexander Polli
A Norwegian-Italian athlete Born to a Norwegian mother and Italian father, Alexander Polli does what most of us can only dream of doing: he flies. With the title of Human Flight Athlete, this professional base jumper dons a wingsuit to soar across mountain faces at speeds of 250 km/h (155 mph). Not content to be seen...
The Most Beautiful Job in the World | Interview with Domenico Cioffi
An Italian Fashion Designer in Amsterdam Domenico Cioffi’s eponymous clothing line has only been around since last year, but the young Italian designer who graduated from European Institute of Design in Rome in 2009 is already gaining the kind of attention usually reserved for much more established brands. Inspired by the colors...
Lily Lapenna | Power to the Young
International experience transformed into social enterprise. Lily Lapenna is a 32-year-old with Italian parents who was raised in London and went to a French school. But wait, it gets more exotic: while working for an NGO in Bangladesh she witnessed the difference microfinance projects made. In 2007, she set up MyBnk, a London-based social enterprise...
Je m’en fous | Sexy / Chic by Giulia Zoppas
A rising Italian fashion designer remakes Lolita in Italy My friend Giulia Zoppas is a Milanese stylist who started the Je m’en fous fashion experience in 2007 by mixing sexiness and elegance to create unique looks that are always Made in Italy. Je m’en fous: I couldn’t care less … What Giulia can’t...
Creativity Unchained | Interview with Federico Mancosu
Powered by creativity and social media How do you go from Italy to Hollywood without even taking a plane? If you’re Federico Mancosu you travel thanks to your creativity and the power of social media. Even before Quentin Tarantino had a cast for his latest movie, Django Unchained, Federico had made a poster for...
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