Creative Director of Marni and alumnus Francesco Risso tackles creative process to a packed lecture hall at Polimoda.

While his latest work in the film “Maria”, the biopic of Maria Callas starring Angelina Jolie and directed by Pablo Larraín, is being released in movie theaters, I retraced his extraordinary career for Polimoda’s Journal, including his history at the fashion school and other costume institutes.

An interview in Italian with Armenian artist Mikayel Ohanjanyan in occasion of “Naturalis Historia” – a duo exhibition with Linda Carrara at Building gallery in Milan.

An exhibition review in Italian of Ai Weiwei’s solo exhibition, “Who Am I?”, at Palazzo Fava in Bologna.

I met Felipe Oliveira Baptista, former Creative Director at Lacoste and Kenzo, to talk about his recently acquired role as Mentor for the Master in Creative Direction at Polimoda.

What can Florence’s enterprising boutiques tell us about its sartorial habits? There’s an undercurrent of small business owners who keep the fashionistas well-heeled and individual in style. We had a chat with some of them to investigate the secret style life of the city.

British artist Antony Gormley speaks about the viewer's role in his art and art's role in modern society on the occasion of his Uffizi exhibition "Essere".

When we imagine gliding through European cities on two wheels, Amsterdam and Berlin immediately spring to mind. Florence, with its narrow streets, one-way system and uneven paving, twisting the ankles of even the most sensibly shoe-d tourist, is not a city usually associated with cycling.