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A love to be imagined

Qhen Luciana Boccardi entered a room it was impossible not to notice her. For the presence. For his eyes. For conversation. Luciana passed away on January 12, 2022, but she left two terrific books that tell about her life: the first, Miss Crovato, with the history of childhood and adolescence; and the second, Inside life, with the adventure of maturity. I was lucky enough to meet Luciana because she, in her thousand adventures of her, she became a fashion expert for The Gazzettino thanks to Georges Simenon (and this already gives the measure of the character): during the shows, his unrestrained comments were witty and made me laugh a lot. The next 12 May, in Venice, the city where she lived, will be celebrated with a memorial. Luciana came to my mind because she possessed one of the qualities I love most in people: imagination. In public and private life, she dared to invent everything. Work, relationships, how to be a woman, mother, writer and journalist in spite of any convention. In Inside life, for example, she talks bluntly about marriage to her husband, a “white” marriage, that is, without sexual relations, wanted and supported by both spouses. Between the pages, it tells how
one night, at a party in a Venetian palace where she had gone with her husband, the light suddenly went out. In that darkness, Luciana had a relationship with a lover from whom her son was born, then raised by her and her husband as their natural son.
The thing I liked about her was that she wasn’t afraid of her imperfections. He was rather afraid of convention. So he dribbled the obstacles and the laws of life and society trying to imagine other paths, other relationships, other ways of telling the world with his talent.
Recently Marco Buschmann, German Minister of Justice, proposed a reform in family law: in the future, this is the proposal, everyone will be able to freely decide who will be part of his family unit, including friends and acquaintances as well as blood or marriage ties. . It will therefore be possible to elect one’s own family by choosing it from among the deepest friendships and to establish a true legal bond with them, with all the related rights and duties.

In this issue of Vanity Fair we celebrate weddings, a young man and a young woman who are expecting their first child and more generally many stories of conventional and non-conventional couples. The portrait that emerges is of a variegated and multiform universe. Sometimes unexpectedly classic. Others unexpectedly progressive. What made me think the most, however, is the need for everyone, that is, of those who choose to follow tradition and who to innovate it, to be able to create their own history, their family, their future beyond conventions and regardless of judgments. . The relationships of love, affection and family all remain to be written. Each with their own grammar. Who with ancient writing. And who with a more modern vocabulary. One thing does not exclude the other. On the contrary: they are both sides of a single principle: love.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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