Who hasn’t had a pair of jeans as a best friend? The kind that were with you at your first concert, that you were wearing every other day during the interrail trip, that brought you luck in your high school exams and that ripped and fell apart but that you could never throw away? What […]
Author Archives: Massimo Montanelli
“Life is full of opportunities. The problem is to recognize them when they present themselves, and that isn’t always easy” Tiziano Terzani By definition, opportunity is a circumstance that makes it possible for something to happen, or that provides the opportunity for something to be done. Opportunity is in itself an unexpected and temporarily favorable situation. […]
“I doni, credi a me, conquistano e uomini e dèi” Publio Ovidio Nasone Manca ormai poco a Natale, è cominciato il conto alla rovescia dei giorni che ci separano da una delle festività più attese dell’anno. E come ogni dicembre, dobbiamo cominciare a depennare dalla lista dei regali quelli già fatti, e affrettarci a pensare […]
“Clothes are a great passion. Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets!” Audrey Hepburn If September is, for many, like a second New Year’s, October is for many symbolised by the seasonal closet change. For many, it’s a romantic season, in which you can admire the leaves as […]
I’m still learning” Michelangelo September has arrived and here we are: Autumn is on our doorstep and schools have started again. I’ve always had a good relationship with studies, classrooms and tests, but now I’ve come to the realisation that experience has been my real schooling. I think I’ve learned more and better from […]
“It is not enough to be born. It is to be born again that we were born. Every day.” (Pablo Neruda) It’s now since the beginning of March that we’ve been enclosed in our homes, for our own good as well as that of those around us. We can’t pretend otherwise… Italy fell ill and […]