How to dress your children without spending?

I’ll tell you about my secret…

For about 8 years now I’ve had a new tenant, my son Giovanni. To make sure he’s always well dressed, without spending too much, over the years I refined a particular technique. Which one? I’ll explain all about it now! For a couple of years in Italy, but not only here, there has been a…

Sartoria Ripense

A paradise for a tailored man

Ripense tailor shop dresses men from head to foot, tailor made without leaving out any detail. Andrea Luparelli, carries on his family traditions, in his historic shop in Rome, continuing to accent the male figure with its incredible tailor made suits. It takes over 50 hours of work to create the perfect outfit. Soft sleeves,…

Nosweet

From Poland cotton candy taste 100% organic

Small dresses, great clothing. I discovered this brand, that strongly reflects my style, almost by chance. I thought it was Scandinavian, but it’s actually Polish. Beautiful cuts. Light colors. Flowers, hearts and teddy bears to dress children like little candy. Nosweet is a brand that takes care of your comfort, but especially protects the skin…

Sicily: third and last stop

Archeological sites, trekking and tastes from a different age! (3/3)

My journey to the discovery of Sicily continues…After the bike tour, the baroque architecture, the fish banquets stallas and the nurseries filled with scents, today I’ll bring you to Cava d’Ispica, a river valley that is about 13 kilometers long, from Modica to Ispica. It’s a place filled with history that guards prehistoric necropolis, Christian catacombs,…

Igor Suhenko

The art of shoes

Class of ’65, Igor Suhenko was born in Belgrade where he graduated from Graphic school. In 1988 he gets to know the world of hand made by working in different workshops. In 1994 he founded his own company. He designs and creates, with the help of his wife and a collaborator, shoe models that are…

Sicily: part two

I’ll tell you how my trip continued…(2/3)

We had stopped off at the end of my incredible bike tour, a hike through land and sea in the middle of uncontaminated nature. But my journey to the discovery of Sicily is not over. There are many places to discover (and talk about) and delicious tastes to be seduced by. Like the ones tried…

Ulyana Sergeenko

A dream is a wish…

  As we know dreaming is free … and do you know what I dream of? A dress by Ulyana Sergeenko. Photographer, designer and stylist, Ulyana is a woman with an iron will thanks to which, in just a few years, she became creator of high fashion. A Russian from Saint Petersburg, Ulyana Sergeenko isn’t…

Feel like a break? Sicily!

Unpredictable as always

I’m at the airport, waiting to return home, and I’m so thrilled about from my last experience that I can’t wait to share it with you… and so, as I wait for my flight I start writing! Everything started by chance, during a boring rainy afternoon. Overcome by an irresistible urge to leave, I turned…

On exile in Ventotene

The need to escape and relax

In size it is the smallest comune (district) of central Italy, with a surface of 1.54 square kilometres and 747 inhabitants. It’s part of the archipelago of the Ponziane islands in the Tyrrhenian sea and it’s close to Santo Stefano, known to everyone – Italian and non – for it’s prison. What place am I…

Petit Bateau marinière

The perfect outfit for the Barcolana

(Photo Archive Barcolana) The Barcolana is the International sailing competition that takes place every year – on the second Sunday of October – in the Gulf of Trieste. It’s known for being one of the most crowded races in the world; in the last edition, that was n.46, over 1.800 boats contended. People from Trieste…