6 December 2024

TIME MACHINE: 1977

Travelling back to 1977, today the Time Machine invites us to dream. Why? Because in the spring of that year ‘A New Hope’, the very first film…
6 December 2024

SIDELINES: CLAUDIO CANESSA   

Last November 3rd, runner, life coach and yoga teacher Claudio Canessa, ran the New York Marathon barefoot. FILA Museum Foundation happily sponsored him. Today, we recap the…
18 November 2024

FILAPEDIA: EMANCIPATION

Today, we talk about emancipation, a concept that is more relevant than ever. This FILAPEDIA post discusses emancipation, which means the liberation of the classes from oppression…
4 November 2024

TIME MACHINE: 1976

Today, the Time Machine takes us back to 1976; the heart of a decade marked by dreams and actions that would become immortal. On April 1st, Steve…
Adriano Panatta
25 October 2024

FILAPEDIA: REVOLUTION

Welcome back to FILAPEDIA! Today's post follows from last month's in so much as it's dedicated to change. Because when we see radical change of a social…
12 October 2024

TIME MACHINE: 1975

After giving you a taste of the ‘flow’ of 1974 , today the Time Machine takes us a year forward. We are catapulted to a period when…
27 September 2024

FILAPEDIA: CHANGE

The first page of our new FILAPEDIA starts with the word change. Change is an action that, whether sudden or planned, is unavoidable during the cycles of…
WHITE-LINE-1974-TENNIS-FILA
13 September 2024

TIME MACHINE: 1974

In questo primo appuntamento, la nostra Time Machine ci porta a Budapest, Ungheria, nel 1944, alla scoperta dell’architetto e designer Ernő Rubik. Docente all’Accademia d’Arte Applicata, un…
22 August 2024

FIFTY-YEAR ANNIVERSARY: THE LEGEND OF WHITE LINE

In the beginning, it was all about great Italian tennis players such as Tuscan-born Paolo Bertolucci who was nicknamed ‘the golden arm’ and conquered three clay court…
7 August 2024

COLOR PALETTE: BROWN

In the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs (1992), Quentin Tarantino’s feature-length debut (that we already discussed here), the director makes a cameo appearance. He is speaking in…