16 September 2020
When we launched our Achieve the Archive contest last spring of course we aimed to enrich our archive, but most of all we wanted to create an…
9 September 2020
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
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
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
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
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…
5 August 2020
After the success of the Jacquard Collection in 1992, Rolando reinforces his position at FILA with his Mistral line, that evokes flowers, stones, grass and other typical…
29 July 2020
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
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
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…
