An extraordinary “vision” by Bebe Vio and Federica Pellegrini, in a cover signed by the artist Maurizio Cattelan

Double release this week for Vanity Fair. A signed cover by the artist Maurizio Cattelan with an extraordinary “vision” of the athletes Bebe Vio and Federica Pellegrini for the new issue on newsstands. And a 50-page digital edition dedicated to Raffaella Carrà that can be downloaded for free from the website and the app: a special tribute to a truly unforgettable woman.

“” You can’t do it “,” your body won’t let you “: these are phrases I’ve heard many times, but I’ve never been disheartened,” says Bebe Vio, “I’ve been used to transforming fear into something positive, to turn it into anger and a desire to erase skepticisms ».

Federica Pellegrini adds: “I did what I did, starting with the sacrifices, because I liked facing them”.

Symbol of strength, determination and sporting success, Bebe Vio and Federica Pellegrini are the protagonists of the new cover of Vanity Fair on newsstands from today Wednesday 7 July. An exceptional cover signed by one of the greatest Italian artists: Maurizio Cattelan. A visionary creative project, which opens with Bebe and Vio floating in the water of a swimming pool and which continues within the issue and on social channels with other extraordinary images conceived by the irreverent “star” of contemporary art.

Federica and Bebe have always dreamed and fought, between laps and jabs, making willpower the key to their triumphs. And as they are about to fly to Japan to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, they tell what they learned to get here in a long interview-confession.

It is a lesson that emerges clearly also from the testimonies of the other athletes met by Vanity Fair for this number. The one that will parade during the opening ceremony of the Games on 23 July will be the Italian team with the highest number of female appearances in history. The “blue” took the stage always managing to defeat the difficulties and too many “can’t” that they have heard in the course of their lives. Vanity Fair he has chosen seven. Seven emblematic stories that, no matter what the races in Japan, already smell of victory.

That same kind of win that Vanity Fair has decided to celebrate with its readers through a new social campaign and a new hashtag: #nondirminonpuoi. Just as the girls of the Italian team did for us, anyone will be able to tell their experience by listing those obstacles and limits that others have placed on the path that leads to full self-realization.

Ma Vanity Fair he could not fail to remember the death of Raffaella Carrà, a figure capable of writing the history of television and a dazzling chapter of our popular culture. It does so through a special digital edition of 50 pages, which can be downloaded for free from the site and from the app, which re-proposes the cover and the long interview granted by “our” Raffaella a Vanity Fair in February 2019, an issue that marked the new course of the magazine that chose her as a symbol of the new editorial adventure. And then: a biography in images, a portfolio with the memory of the famous people closest to her and a conversation with the singer Noemi, who worked with Carrà for three years as a coach of The Voice of Italy. It is a tribute to an incredible woman who, as the director Simone Marchetti writes in the editorial of the issue on newsstands, has crossed Italian culture and entertainment «opening gaps where there were glass ceilings and opening horizons where there were walls. Hi, Raffaella. We will miss you. But your lesson remains here. Forever”.

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