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9 September 2020

FILA goes to Hollywood: The Firm

Movies about English working class’ anger are many and valuable: just think of Master Ken Loach’s entire filmography. Not mention the verve of Full Monty by Peter…
2 September 2020

Meet the designer: Pierluigi Rolando – 3

During the Seventies designer Pierluigi Rolando didn’t only reimagine tennis players’ looks, but also another great revolution by FILA: sponsorships. It was the beginning of an era…
26 August 2020

Sources: Biella’s chimneys

In 1980 writer Giosuè Carducci, the first Italian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote a poem that generations of Italian schoolchildren would have later studied…
19 August 2020

Courtside: Ray Giubilo

Can I turn on the fan? It’s so hot, in here As we video call Ray Giubilo, he istantly engages us with charming openness. Born in Adelaide,…
12 August 2020

Sound On: Melanie C

In 1996 the Liverpool-born singer breaks out in the music scene as a former member of the Spice Girls, the most successful English girlband of all times…
29 July 2020

Back in the days: Grant Hill

When Tupac Shakur records Keep Ya Head Up it’s 1993 and he can’t imagine his life is going to break three years later because of a fatal…
22 July 2020

Sound On: BTS

The band from Seoul has been able to shape a manifold reality, with impressive hits, elaborate choreographies and catchy visuals and outfits. In this perfect universe, BTS…
8 July 2020

Forty years later

Who knows if on July 5th, 1980, before getting on the tennis court, Björn Borg and John McEnroe read it, even in passing, or their concentration couldn’t…
1 July 2020

Meet the designer: Pierluigi Rolando

But Pierluigi Rolando’s memoirs are flaring, an atlas of words full of self-confidence, energy and passion. This ardour is the same that led him to create the…
24 June 2020

Sources: Biella and water

Because Biella develops on the slopes of mounts and some of them – like Massiccio del Bo or Mucrone – give birth to sources powering rivers in…