7 August 2024
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…
3 July 2024
Over the past months, most of the colours we have written about have 100, even 1000-year-old histories. This is not the case with orange: a secondary colour…
20 June 2024
This primary colour is present in nature and throughout history - including FILA’s. Today we are going to discover countless curious facts about yellow. So far in…
4 June 2024
"As long as one has passions, one will not cease to discover the world," said Cesare Pavese in Il mestiere di vivere - his biography written between…
23 May 2024
Established in 1992, after the UN adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated every year on May 22nd. With…
10 May 2024
In 2007, after being widely commented on, the magazine InStyle defined the green dress worn by British actress Keira Knightley in a famous scene from Atonement as…
25 April 2024
Before we discuss their art, it is important to remember the words the greatest artists have used to describe it. The most well-known are from Pablo Picasso…
14 March 2024
Celebrating renewal and rebirth, Easter is the oldest and most important Christian festival. It is recognised all over the world, and not always with religious reverence. In…
7 March 2024
It really happened. In August 2018, on a visit to Fundação de Serralves in Porto, Portugal, an Italian tourist ‘fell’ into a ‘black hole.’ The work in…
22 February 2024
Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway), the leading character of the film The Devil Wears Prada (2005), hadn’t realised the power of Miranda Priestley when, during a styling session,…
