Alessia Marcuzzi on the cover of Vanity Fair to celebrate those who have the courage to change

Yes, change. “When you no longer recognize yourself, and what you do and have always done has nothing to do with it, but you have to do it, it is mandatory to ask yourself: ‘What do you want to become?’ And answer each other. I said to myself: “Alessia, you are lucky, yes, and a lot, but are you really what you like? What do you want to be? “. And so I began to redesign myself. Thinking. I stopped: there was a need to understand ». Thus begins the interview-confession that Alessia Marcuzzi has granted to Vanity Fair for the issue on newsstands from tomorrow, Wednesday 4 August.

It is an emblematic story, that of the famous TV presenter, who after 25 years of collaboration with Mediaset has decided to abandon the comforts of a successful career to experience a new phase of her life, supporting – continues Marcuzzi – “a call, a urgency for freedom “.

The director Simone Marchetti writes in his editorial: «Alessia, like all of us, found herself faced with the most difficult question: what do you want to become? This question, a warning that naturally crosses everyone’s life, has become even bigger, even more cumbersome, even more difficult to ignore after the pandemic. There is no one-size-fits-all answer. Alessia gave us hers. Many other exceptional women, in this issue, tell us theirs ».

The theme of change and its necessity, the commitment to personal and public challenges, the search for possible paths is, in fact, the common thread that unites the many stories presented by Vanity Fair this week. An exceptional witness, the First Lady of the United States. Tireless promoter of the social policies pursued by her husband, “prof” Jill Biden did not abdicate her mission even once she entered the White House “Teaching is not what I do, it is what I am”, she reiterates in the report dedicated to her ” During the election campaign they told me: if you become the president’s wife you will have to stop. But why? If you want something you can make it happen ». Determined not to give in to pressure is also Meghan Markle, the wife of Prince Henry. Charismatic, strong-willed, anarchic, courageous, the most talked about duchess is turning 40 in recent days. We wish you to live them at the top, comments Daniela Collu in the ironic happy birthday letter that she imagines writing to her, «without regrets and, above all, without revenge». Instead, the scenario changes with the exclusive interview with Masoumeh Ebtekar, who is about to conclude his third term as vice president of Iran. While the leaders of the Islamic republic around her have a dark look and solemn tone, she always smiles. With a small physique, she is the most powerful woman in the country, and in her interview with Vanity Fair she alternates political analysis with more intimate reflections on her family biography.

Finally, the relationship between women and participation also dominates the interviews with two exponents of the Italian public debate: Alessandra Mussolini and Lia Quartapelle. If the first provocatively declares “I am a girl of the left”, claiming the freedom to choose her own battles, the second, a parliamentary member of the feminist and multiculturalist PD, tells the roots of her commitment and her battles for Zaki and for gender equality. , not shirking the questions on private life and on the romantic relationship with Claudio Martelli, historical exponent of the Socialist Party of Bettino Craxi.

At the end of the issue: the special by 12 pages dedicated to next season’s trends, an “onlife” fashion that overcomes the distinctions between real and digital; the «food» suggestions for a mid-August lunch that will delight your guests; a guide to stays in castles and fortifications of other times, beyond the doors of hotels and residences where “closing in” is a whole other story.