Perhaps words do not have the power to change the world but they can certainly bear witness to its change and tell the forces that drive it. With this
awareness, and in search of those values from which progress draws its nourishment, fashion has begun to listen to poets and writers who speak of the present with new voices. Queer voices, black voices, Asian voices, feminist voices. Voices that from 24 to 30 May will be at the center of “Into Words”, the first literary week of Vogue Italia in collaboration with Maison Valentino.
Seven days of direct Instagram with the most influential international authors. Seven days of conversations to tell a challenge: how the world is changing from the perspective of a magazine that, over the years, has published emerging names and stars of the literary scene, testifying that fashion and culture, together, can make a difference .
Among the participants: Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer and Michael Cunningham, André Aciman (author of the novel “Call me by your name”), Italian writers Sebastiano Mauri, Nicola Lagioia (director of the International Book Fair of Turin), Michela Murgia. And again: the authors Fatima Bhutto, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Elizabeth Acevedo, the internet comedienne Elsa Majimbo, the two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize Lisa Taddeo, the vlogger and writer Lena Mahfouf, the playwright and screenwriter Matthew Lopez, the journalist, actress , director and activist Rokhaya Diallo and Koreen Odiney, founder of We’re Not Really Strangers, a card and movement game that aims to strengthen empathic connections between people.
The themes of the exhibition, conceived and curated by Federico Chiara, range from intersectional feminism to patriarchal culture, from migrations to environmental ethics, exploring diversity, inclusiveness, friendship and love in their infinite forms. There will also be space to explore the evolution of fiction, poetry, reportage and comedy in the age of social media, between interactivity, seriality and entertainment.
Together with Vogue Italia in this inaugural edition there will be Maison Valentino. A non-random choice: his Creative Director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, he deeply believes that poetry protects our humanity and allows for inner explorations by offering a lens through which we can touch our innermost feelings. This is why the brand has decided to use the words of contemporary authors for its advertising campaigns: a way to convey the values of authenticity and individuality that identify today’s Valentino and its Creative Director.
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