Vanity Fair arrives on newsstands on February 17 with a special issue celebrating i new Italian talents who are rewriting the rules of cinema, music, fashion, entertainment, science and social media. A chorus of voices, experiences and projects that are changing the face of our country.
“What we have worked on is a partial but projectual catalog of a group of pioneers”, writes the director in his editorial Simone Marchetti, «Talents who have had the courage to break schemes to do new things or to re-establish schemes to recover old ones.
Screenwriters, directors, composers, activists, athletes, writers, musicians and more generally creatives who have never given up, even in the face of the pandemic, in defining their dreams ».
On the cover, a group of these pioneers: the actor Rocco Fasano, teen idol later Shame on Italy, which reflects on the roles of toxic masculinity, which are no longer acceptable today. Nabou ThiamBorn in 2002, a model from Brescia of Senegalese origins who has just started her career after finishing second in the Elite Model Look competition. Sespo, digital creator and star of YouTube and Twitch with two million followers and the music duo The List Representative composed by Veronica Lucchesi (singer) and Dario Mangiaracina (multi-instrumentalist), who will be at the 71st Sanremo Festival with the song Amare.
This number of Vanity Fair aims to trigger ideas, debate and action, to indicate directions, solutions and hopes for change at a time that seems to suggest the opposite. The inspiration of Jade Zhang, 25 years old and former CEO of a company, the Mulan Group, which was able to innovate during the pandemic, through e-commerce organized in two weeks. The commitment of Agnese Pini, 35, the youngest director of a newspaper in Italy, and the first woman to direct it in 160 years (The nation, Florence), which tells how it became and what are the ways to approach young people and give them an opportunity. The determination of Veronica Yoko Plazzi, 25, Paralympic triathlon athlete who has made his history and his body a manifesto to educate for diversity. Beautiful the words of the writer Jonathan Bazzi, 35, who with his debut book Temperature (candidate for the Premio Strega 2020), is changing the narrative of two issues that concern him closely: the periphery and HIV-positive. The intelligent irony that makes you think: it is that of the comic Emanuela Fanelli, revelation of the television program A piece of Lundini. Two talents under thirty won the hearts of the public also thanks to the success of Shame on Italy: the actor Pietro Turano, 24, in the life of an LGBTQ activist, vice president of Arcigay Roma and national councilor of Arcigay and Ludovico Di Martino, 28, director of the web series and the film The beast, which topped the Netflix charts. A message to the new generations to commit themselves with enthusiasm to the realization of their dreams comes from Geneva Lubrano, born in 1993, from Turin, who accompanies us in the universe of hybrid music like his personality, made up of discipline and great ambitions.
Activism in support of the weakest: they are witnesses of it Djarah Kan, first blogger now writer, her book Tooth thieves collects a series of stories on racism and its most subtle forms e Aboubakar Soumahoro, trade unionist of migrants, defender of the invisible, who dreams of an Italy in which empathy prevails over calculation and the beauty of diversity over fear. Iacopo Melio, 28 years old, in a wheelchair since birth: despite the impossibility of holding live speeches, last September he broke the bank at the Florence 1 college, becoming Regional Councilor for Tuscany.
The philosopher tells of the importance of reflection from which “personal flowering” can arise Maura gancitano, born in 1985, founder, with Andrea Colamedici, of Tlon which is a permanent school of philosophy and imagination, publishing house, chain of theater bookstores. The presence of women is also very strong in the world of science: Raffaella Di Micco, Neapolitan, born in 1980, who studies the aging of blood stem cells for Telethon. Barbara Mazzolai, director of the Micro-BioRobotics Center of the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, a pioneer of bio-inspired robotics and a great lover of nature like the biologist Emanuela Evangelista, activist and president of the Amazônia Onlus association, engaged in challenges such as environmental conservation, the fight against the climate crisis and the preservation of habitats.
Among the pioneers of this issue, of course, the protagonists of the digital generation could not be missing: how Cicciogamer89, a YouTube channel with over 30 million subscribers, a very skilled Fortnite gamer; behind him a past of suffering linked to bullying suffered for his obesity and the redemption achieved thanks to the passion for gaming and work on one’s body; it’s still, Muriel, born in 1996, youtuber, LGBTQ + activist, engaged in social campaigns for body positivity, a reference point for her community also in terms of fashion and beauty; Riccardo Romiti, 18, in art Reynor, gaming champion of StarCraft II.
Then there is a section entirely dedicated to fashion with ten talents from different backgrounds and backgrounds in front of the photographic lens of Attilio Cusani: Lil Jolie, Chiara Cascella, Mike Lennon, Martina Momusso, Moà, Francesco Cicconetti, Valeria Margherita Moscow, Riccardo Dellacasa, Maria Luisa De Crescenzo e Natalia Created. To dress them, two celeb stylists among the most appreciated and innovative: Nick Cerionia e Rebecca Baglini.
Vanity Fair continues to rewrite the rules of publishing by overturning the classic paper-web mechanism, putting the latter in first place in revealing the entire content of the fashion service present in the issue, published on Instagram starting five days before the newspaper’s release on newsstands.
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