There is a specific kind of silence that exists inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, and for Gianluca Vacchi, it’s the sound of a very expensive daily reset. While most of the world knows him for the shirtless dancing on yachts and the silver-fox aesthetic that broke the internet about a decade ago, the reality of […]
The lights drop inside Palazzo Orsini in Milan, and for a brief moment, the room goes still. You can almost feel the weight of the place. It’s early February 2026, and the fashion crowd is still adjusting after the loss of Giorgio Armani last September. There had been quiet talk for months about what might […]
The strange thing about Italy is that we think of it as an ancient museum, but as a country, it’s pretty much a teenager compared to its neighbors. If you arrived in 1850 in one of Florence’s taverns and started calling somebody an “Italian”, the guy would very likely get mad at you. “I am a Florentine,” they […]
You’d think “What’s Italy’s population?” would be the easiest question in the world. A single number. Job done. Next. But try asking it in a room full of statisticians and watch the smiles tighten. Because population isn’t one neat thing. It changes every day. It depends on whether you mean residents on the registry, people […]
