Sport

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…
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…
17 June 2020

Purple brings you luck

As in all legends, the hero’s origins are humble: born in Argentina in 1969, Batistuta is son of a butcher and a school worker. During his teenage…
27 May 2020

Archivissima 2020: here we are!

The COVID-19 health emergency caused the cancellation of numerous international events, but Archivissima is not among these. This year’s edition is confirmed from 5th to 8th June,…
13 May 2020

Togetherness: Carla Overbeck and Nikki McCray

Women know it well: getting together is always the most powerful weapon. And FILA athletes, if possible, know it even better: among the greatest lessons we can…
29 April 2020

The silent step of snow: Stenmark

Born in Joesjö in 1956, Stenmark debuted in World Cup in 1973, when he’s just 17 years old. Since then, his career has been triumphant: with 46…
22 April 2020

Brotherhood

Twin brothers, the Mahres were born in Yakima, Washington State, on May 10th, 1957: Phil is four minutes younger, as he says in every interview. They were…
15 April 2020

Reinhold Messner, a gentle conquerer

Maybe it was right this intimate fact to inspire Doctor Enrico Frachey’s passion for mountains: in 1976 FILA launched a new line specifically dedicated to it, White…
8 April 2020

Reaching for the top: throwback to the Fashion Week

On May 8th, 1978 Reinhold Messner climbs mount Everest all by himself and without additional oxygen. In the same year, skier Ingemar Stenmark, wearing the bright yellow…
1 April 2020

Time to win: meet Sofia Kenin

Who knows if he imagined they would become true, and that her daughter, now 21, could win the Australian Open. The youngest winner since Maria Sharapova, to…