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Giorgio Armani Shows Fall Winter 2024, Talks Italian Prime Minister

Giorgio Armani Shows Fall Winter 2024, Talks Italian Prime Minister

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Giorgio Armani is not Donatella Versace. He doesn’t like politics. He doesn’t like controversy. He never gets out of line on current political events. He loves to talk only about fashion. Most of all, his own. Donatella Versace, for her part, often takes a stand. Her speech on the stage of Milan’s La Scala Theater during the Fashion Awards last year was memorable. A harsh frontal attack on Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni for her discriminatory policies toward same-sex parents, it was heard around the world. Although he might be sensitive to the topic, Giorgio Armani, on the other hand, for one of his show finales a few seasons ago, paraded five couples — each composed only of a man and a woman, couples ostensibly heterosexual and traditional — down the runway. “It’s a precise choice I wanted. To see an attractive, serious couple again,” the designer admitted at the time to those who pointed out to him that he himself did not have a traditional romantic situation and that society in the meantime was, fortunately, …

Fashion offers sense of joy and renewal in difficult times, says Giorgio Armani | Milan fashion week

Fashion offers sense of joy and renewal in difficult times, says Giorgio Armani | Milan fashion week

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Designers at fashion week are often asked to justify their luxurious creations when the showcase takes place against a backdrop of tumultuous global politics. For Giorgio Armani, it is about joy and renewal, he said. Armani, who launched his eponymous brand in 1975, has had time and experience to consider the role fashion can play in these circumstances. “This is a question I am often asked and I myself wonder what the role of fashion is in such difficult times,” he told the Guardian before his Milan fashion week show on Sunday morning. “For me, what fashion can do is convey a sense of renewal, but also joy. We aren’t changing the world, nor can we solve the world’s problems, but we can give people a moment of lightness, the feeling of being different, new and even more beautiful. These are small pleasures, but sometimes small things can make a big difference.” It is a sentiment other big names in Milan have expressed over the course of this week. At a preview for her show …

State funeral of former Italian president Giorgio Napolitano takes place in Rome | Italy

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Crowds gathered outside the Italian parliament as the non-religious state funeral of Giorgio Napolitano, a former communist who as president navigated Italy through almost a decade of turbulent political times, took place in Rome. Napolitano, the first president to be elected twice, died on Friday at the age of 98. He is credited with staving off a debt crisis after using his powers to appoint technocrat Mario Monti as prime minister in the wake of Silvio Berlusconi’s resignation amid the eurozone crisis that plunged Italy into financial turmoil. It is the first time a funeral has been held at Montecitorio Palace, the seat of the lower house of parliament in the centre of the Italian capital. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and the Duchess of Edinburgh were among the dignitaries in attendance. There was a round of applause as Napolitano’s coffin arrived, draped in an Italian flag, while a military band played the national anthem as it was carried into the palace. Emmanuel Macron (right) with Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia …

Giorgio Napolitano, ex-communist who became president of Italy, dies aged 98 | Italy

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Giorgio Napolitano, the first former communist to rise to Italy’s presidency and the first person to be elected twice to the post, has died aged 98. A statement issued on Friday night by the presidential palace confirmed Italian news reports of the death of Napolitano, who had been in a Rome hospital for weeks. The current president, Sergio Mattarella, hailed his predecessor as head of state, saying that Napolitano’s life “mirrored a large part of [Italy’s] history in the second half of the 20th century, with its dramas, its complexity, its goals, its hopes”. As a prominent member of what had long been the largest communist party in the west, Napolitano had advocated positions that often veered from party orthodoxy. He sought dialogue with Italian and European socialists to end his party’s isolation, and he was an early backer of European integration. Turin daily La Stampa once wrote of Napolitano: “He was the least communist Communist that the party ever enlisted.” In a condolence telegram to Napolitano’s widow, Clio, Pope Francis said the late president …

Nobel prize winner Giorgio Parisi: ‘There’s a lack of trust in science – we need to show how it’s done’ | Physics

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The multi-prize-winning theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi was born in Rome in 1948. He studied physics at the Sapienza University in the city, and is now a professor of quantum theories there. A researcher of broad interests, Parisi is perhaps best known for his work on “spin glasses” or disordered magnetic states, contributing to the theory of complex systems. For this work, together with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, he won the Nobel prize in physics in 2021. His first popular science book, In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems, which charts some of the highlights of his life’s work and makes a passionate case for the value of science, is published on 11 July. How did you get interested in physics?As a young child, I was interested in numbers – my mother told me I learned to read numbers aged three. On the street we’d be waiting for a tram and I’d say, here comes the number six. When it was time to go to university, I pondered if I should do …