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Giorgio Armani has made a decision to help his country amid the coronavirus outbreak. All of his factories are about to be turned into scrubs manufacturing facilities. This decision follows the huge donation of money to some of the Italian hospitals coping with this critical situation.
The world has changed suddenly and what awaits us when the crisis is over will be a new world. We will not return to normal, we are moving towards a new normal. The fear of contagion, even when the crisis seems to have subsided, will greatly influence consumer choices. Domestic tourism will be favored, attention to hygiene and health of people must necessarily be part of the strategic promotion plan for hotels, as it was safety for airlines after the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York .
The Salone del Mobile which was supposed to take place from the 21st to the 26th of April has been postponed to later this year due to the recent coronavirus outbreak in the Lombardy region.
It is clear how the cancellation of an event or tradeshow deeply affects the hotel industry and impacts the tourism sector over all. But the city of Milan seems to be going in the opposite direction.
Among the many Italian stereotypes there is one that says that the Italians travel with pasta and a bottle of olive oil in their luggage. Well this is actually not entirely false. We do enjoy our food and we tend to look for it where ever we go.
Supreme, the iconic brand is about to open its very first Italian store in Milan. Or at least this is what a long serie of clues some how demonstrates. Is it just a rumor then?
Everyone now is asking what will be the future of the US retailer that dressed millions of people and that had its key element in the in-store shopping experience.
In China there is an exact copy of the city of Milan and the capital of fashion is not the first city to have been duplicated. Read for more
Google + its about to be permanently deleted by its creator Google. Did you save your content? make sure to do so, it all ends on the 2nd of April!
The inventor of internet Tim Berners-Lee has recently released an interview to Fast Company saying that he has something new in mind. Tim Berners-Lee has just launched his new company called Inrupt with the aim to make of the internet what he was supposed to be in the first place. Born has a world-changing tool the internet has become during the years the reign of just a few players (Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc…) where the people cannot decide, fo instance, the use of personal data. The inventor of internet wants to change that and he is doing it through a…
Starbucks in Milan hires people with special needs The brand new Starbucks in Milan occupies an entire building in the heart of the city. The three-storey building in Piazza Cordusio used to be the headquarter of the Italian Postal Services. Conveniently located just a few steps from the Duomo cathedral and the La Scala opera house, the Starbucks building features an impressive set of original decorations and ornaments dating back to 1901. In the original plan right in front of this new Italian development of the Seattle-based coffee house there was an outside area for al fresco dining but this…
The case of the fake curriculum of the Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte has unleashed the imagination of the Italians. Recently have appeared on Linkedin and on the most popular social networks, vignettes and GIFs that returned an unflattering portrait of Mr Conte. However, the art of writing finds its maximum expression in the writing of our curricula. A line added in the course of study or a shrewdly described work experience can greatly change the perception that the director of human resources of any company has of us. So those who dealt with leafleting become business to consumer advertising specialists …
Haitao: the Chinese online shopping experience Haitao means overseas in Chinese and today this term identifies a movement of mainly young Chinese consumers, who buy their products online from Western companies…overseas. The Chinese millennials, especially those belonging to the so-called middle-class, are the heirs of the economic boom that has changed the needs of consumers in the last twenty years. The demand for this category of consumers was more attentive to quality and susceptible to the added value of the brand. So many blogs and online forums were born over time, where new Haitao consumers exchanged views both about products…
Blink Travel Guide: here is our review Blink is a new tool that has recently joined the multitude of apps that aim at enhancing the tourists experience where ever they are. It has been developed to make easier and faster for visitors of the major destinations to select where to go, which museum to visit or to find a restaurant that locals would choose. The two main features of Blink are the massive use of attractive pictures and its fluid navigation. The developers needed to find a way to stand from the crowd and through a clear, simple and fancy…
Michael Kors, the iconic brand that made its fortune on leather bags and accessories, is now on the list of those companies that got dragged into the so-called retail crisis. The designer, born Karl Anderson, Jr, started his career at a very young age. He was discovered by Dawn Mello, the fashion director of the Bergdorf Goodman departmet store, who gave the start to his career. He launched his own pret-a-porter collection in 1981 which was sold through the Bergdorf Goodman stores. In 1997 he joined the french company Celine as creative director while working on his own collection. Once Michael…
Starbucks in Milan is going to be different. The store that is about to open will be part of a new concept that the coffee house based in Seattle is developing right now. Starbucks in Milan will not be the usual bar which we are used to see throughout the United States. First and foremost it will be hosted within an iconic retail space: the former headquarter of the Italian postal services in Piazza Cordusio, just a few steps from the Piazza del Duomo and the Cathedral. The plans for the Starbucks in Milan are to offer to the Italian…
Barack Obama, the former president of the United States will be visiting Milan on the 9th of May 2017 when he will be the keynote speaker of the Global Food Innovation Summit. The event will take place in the Fiera Milano facilities from the 8th to the 11th of May and deals with food topics: from nutrition to new technologies, from climate changes to food security. The visit of Barack Obama will also be the opportunity for the former White House’s tenant to officially receive the keys to the city by the mayor of Milan Mr. Giuseppe Sala. The mayor had the…
Every now and then we read in the papers how rich some web celebrities have become thanks to their Istagram or youtube accounts. Some guy posts a video on the Google’s videosharing platform and all of a sudden becomes a celebrity. A young and good-looking girl gets thousands of comments to a picture of her in a bikini. This is when companies start to get interested in you and your precious profile. These followers are a potential client base for them and the only way to get to those people is to use those accounts. This is the reason why the…
Porta Nuova is the up-and-coming district of Milan. The renovation of this area of the city started back in 2005 and at that time was the largest construction yard of Europe. This two billions renovation project saw the participation of twenty architects who worked to re-design the Varesine area with the help of more than two thousands workers. Nowadays the Porta Nuova district features some astonishing buildings like the Bosco Verticale , which was elected best skyscraper of the world by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in 2015 and the Cesar Pelli Tower which now hosts the Unicredit’s headquarter.…