JULIA IN VENICE

JULIA IN VENICE

Sep 7, 2025 | MOVIES, WOMEN, FASHION, FASHION, MOVIES, SHOES, SHOES, WOMEN

Julia in Venice for the first time at the Film Festival. 

Julia returns to Venice after Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You.

I have always liked her and therefore follow her with admiration.

Among other things, as you know, I adore Venice, so her presence at the Film Festival is a very special combination for me.

Once again, she has graced us with her smile, framed by her unique, personal and ironic, or simply iconic, style choices.

Julia Roberts is not known for her glamorous appearances, and in Venice she is showing her true self: a combination of simplicity and elegance, practicality and refinement.

Here she is in black and white, with the trendiest bag of the moment: the Celine tote, the luggage phantom bag paired with a pair of Superga trainers like the ones we could all have.

Julia in Venice

 

Minimal sporty = chic

But there’s more: the completely unexpected cardigan featuring Luca Guadagnino’s face.

Julia in Venice

 

This version of the outfit shows us ballet sneakers that have already gone viral.

Julia in Venice

 

Is that all?

Absolutely not!

Of course, we all saw the splendour of the blue dress on the catwalk, but I would rather focus on a secondary outfit, if we can call it that, also by Versace, because in this case too, in addition to the dress, there is a message: sharing is caring.

There was a time when two women wearing the same dress to an event could be considered a tragedy.

Julia Roberts and Amanda Seyfried, on the other hand, appeared like this:

Julia in Venice

 

What do you think?

Absurd or brilliant?

Have you ever shared your clothes?

I cannot conclude without mentioning Julia’s look for the 1990 Golden Globes ceremony: history, and I will say no more.

APPLICATION FOR A JOB

APPLICATION FOR A JOB

Aug 30, 2025 | MOVIES, WOMEN, FASHION, WORK, FASHION, MOVIES, WOMEN, WORK

I wonder if you have ever applied for a particularly coveted position.

Even when faced with the impossible, do you think it is worth taking a chance, perhaps hoping for a stroke of luck, confident in the idea that “one in a thousand makes it”?

Are you a dreamer even in the concrete act of sending a CV?

I ask you this because in August, Condé Nast published an advertisement for an Executive Assistant to the Global Chief Content Director. The salary was up to 125,000 usd.

The end of June brought us the sensational news of Anna Wintour‘s  “resignation”, although in reality she left her role as editor-in-chief of American Vogue to take on the role of Global Editorial Director of Vogue, as well as being responsible for Condé Nast’s global content.

This is not fiction: Andy Sacks‘ candidacy is really required! 🙂

And all this while 20th Century Studios tells us that The Devil Wears Prada 2 is in the works…

The recruitment campaign, i.e. the search and training of staff, a neologism according to Treccani, was launched on August 13,

Who will now be bringing hot coffee to Mir… oops, to Anna?

And you? Will you tell me about your special application?

Have you ever had to face a difficult challenge at work?

#pausaca by Paola Iezzi

#pausaca by Paola Iezzi

Aug 17, 2025 | A COFFEE WITH, MUSIC, WOMEN

#pausaca is Paola Iezzi‘s coffee break hashtag.

#pausaca is pausa = break and ca = coffee without the last three letters, but it lacks nothing, quite the contrary!

It’s the kind of coffee break long-awaited, when you are deeply in need to stop, the kind of break representing a well-deserved reward.

Coffee that is desired, necessary, therapeutic.

With this in mind, it all happened one day a year ago or perhaps more, when Paola decided to share a photo of a coffee she drank with the mood “ah! Finally!”.

What word do you usually use to express the concept “ah! Finally” with the maximum reinforcing sense?

The expression used by Paola is now well known and has climbed the rankings of examples where the use of a comma makes a definite difference.

She wrote pausa cazzo and cazzo is the corresponding of dick.

But since then, Paola’s coffee breaks have become an unmissable and impertinent moment: they are pauseca.

Here she herself cites the origin…

#pausaca di Paola Iezzi#pausaca di Paola Iezzi

Do you always put commas in the right place?

How do you behave in the event of a gaffe?

Do you play it cool and “play dead”, or do you make light of it because laughing is always better?

Paola created a trend without a comma: it’s a short step from pausaca to pausaqueen.

MY LOVE DOES NOT DIE

MY LOVE DOES NOT DIE

Aug 10, 2025 | BOOKS, PENDING COFFEE FOR, WOMEN

My love does not die is a book written by Roberto Saviano about the story of Rossella Casini, which I read thanks to Monica.

The origin of the title My love does not die is explained in the book, but it is surely the story of a love that is both disruptive and unavoidable.

Rossella Casini is a name that in itself inspires sympathy. Rossella is Tuscan, from Florence, a city of art where the struggles between the Guelphs and Ghibellines belong to ancient history.

It is the end of the 1970s, when heroin begins to take the lives of young people. Years of political struggles and cultural ferment.

1977: the year the first Star Wars is released, the Pompidou Centre is inaugurated in Paris, Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland form The Police, and David Bowie records Heroes in Berlin.

Rossella and Francesco are university students but do not attend the same faculty: fate brings Francesco right in front of Rossella’s house.

As in fairy tales, everything seems perfect, and at this point it remains to understand whether love really makes you blind and deaf, but love surely makes you strong.

With this strength, but alone against a sick world, Rossella follows Francesco to Calabria, despite his family turning out to be a ‘ndrina.

With this strength, Rossella even manages to convince Francesco to collaborate with the justice system, together with her.

But Francesco ends up in prison and his imprisonment somehow breaks their union, allowing the affiliation to prevail.

On 22 February 1981, Rossella is in Palmi, planning to return to Florence, but she disappears into thin air.

A nothingness that lasted 13 years. A nothingness during which her mother dies. A nothingness that swallows everything about her, literally.

Look closely at the photo on the cover of the book: that is the only image of Rossella.

The only image.

In an age when we fill our mobile phones with photographs, it took the intuition of a group of journalists to find Rossella’s face, which they recovered through her enrolment in the faculty of psychology.

I am grateful to them, to the Libera association, which works to keep Rossella’s voice alive, and I am grateful to everything that honours her memory, such as the school: Istituto Comprensivo Rossella Casini. 

Rossella’s love does not die, and neither should her legacy.

 

THREE SOULS

THREE SOULS

Jul 19, 2025 | A COFFEE WITH, WOMEN, MUSIC, MUSIC, ROCK, ROCK, A COFFEE WITH, WOMEN

Tre Anime Three souls is Carmen Consoli‘s new artistic project. 

The Cantantessa described the genesis and concept of these Three Souls on Instagram

One of the things around which I find myself reflecting more and more often is time. 

Many times we have found ourselves exchanging our reflections on time even here over our virtual cafés.

I continue to believe in and practise slowness and following the rhythms set by Nature to choose and be happy. 

Slowness. A luxury even.

If you can, do you practise slowness?
Do you like to slow down?

Or perhaps you like to organise a thousand things on the wave of ‘he who has time, waits for no time?’

Carmen also emphasises the use of Artificial Intelligence: why delegate our lives to machines?

What do we do with all this time gained because it is not lived?

In fact, very often we fall into the paradox: the acceleration of processes thanks to technology generally does not lead us to have more time for ourselves, but to find ourselves with more things to do. Do you agree?

Beyond speeches or declarations, to be fair, Carmen Consoli seems to live out of time.

Her bio boasts a very long list of awards, accolades, collaborations, yet she always manages to appear measured, always in the right place, with refined musical taste and more.

Elegant? No: True artist.

Artist who found inspiration in Quintus Ennius who spoke and wrote in three languages saying he had three hearts.

From three hearts to three souls:

Sicilian culture soul
Rock soul
Songwriting soul narrative

Sicilian as Nina: first woman poet in Italian literary history.

As you well know I always value the use of dialects. 

Rock like experimenting with his father’s Gibson, in the years of radiant Catania when R.E.M. opened the world tour in Catania with openings by the very young Radiohead.

Rock! Ça va sans dire …

Songwriter like La Cantantessa who gave us precious songs like Contessa Miseria from Mediamente Isterica.

Not surprisingly, time also appears in one of its facets in the lyrics of this song.

Confused and Happy, Butter Words, Orange Blossoms, The Last Kiss, In Black and White, do you continue with your favorite?

And what Souls are you?

SISTERS IN WEB

SISTERS IN WEB

Jul 5, 2025 | INTERNET, WOMEN

Sisters in web is Khadi’s project: a community where you can learn how to build useful strategies to start a career in the virtual field.

The concept of sisterhood is very important as well as delicate and I believe it should be preserved so that it can retain its real value.

In this regard, I would directly quote Louisa May Alcott
Helping one another is part of the religion of sisterhood.

Can you always count on someone in this sense?

Sister or brother, of course.

To return to Sisters, Sisters in web to be precise, I have virtually crossed paths with Khadi during my wanderings in search of advice for all the things I have to learn about blogging.

A peculiar feature totally against the trend: in a world ruled by the eagerness to appear, Khadi creates by putting her whole self into it but in a conceptual and not ‘photographic’ way.

Her speciality is ‘funnels.’

I confess I didn’t know what they were, did you?

‘I honestly love coffee madly, although I try to limit myself at least from 3pm onwards, otherwise I can’t sleep at night.’

… side effects … but I sleep anyway, don’t you?

I follow Khadi on several social media, always admiring the quality content, but recently I had a particular thunderbolt reading his latest newsletter.

The story of the realisation of her dream.

By now you know that I really care about people who chase their dreams with passion.

And in Khadi’s story, I found the enormous awareness of having lived a unique moment in life.

Sisters on the web work-wise but dreamers “offline” if I may say so: a dream realised without anyone knowing but at the same time with the generosity to share the emotion of such an important satisfaction.

I summarise by quoting directly:

Sometimes dreams come true not when you are ready, but when you finally stop thinking you have to be.
Khadi Paolini

Have you already realised your dream?

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