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Vintage shop 20134 Lambrate Milan, photo Rachael Martin

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My guide to fashion in Milan will be published in spring 2020.

I’m an author at Pen and Sword Books (UK) and am currently writing a guide to fashion in Milan.

Photo: Vintage store 20134 Lambrate in Milan, Rachael Martin

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Let it snow ❄️

The Basilica di Santa Maria della Grazie is where Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is in the refectory next door, and one of Milan’s most beautiful and very special churches. It was commissioned by Duke of Milan Francesco Sforza, and made into the Sforza family burial site by Ludovico Sforza, who married Beatrice d’Este. Beatrice, sister of Isabella d’Este was only 15 when she married Ludovico, yet she embraced the cultural and artistic life of the court and along with sister Isabella, became a European fashion icon whose style was copied in the European courts, although it was that Beatrice had the most beautiful and expensive dresses. Ludovico buried her here when she died in childbirth six years into their marriage at the age of 21.

Aperitivo milanese

When you’ve been in Italy so long now that a dish of pasta has the capacity to enclose everything you hold dear

Pasta al forno, and smells like home

Feels like winter

Venice writing on the wall

Late afternoons, Milan

These rainy Milanese days ☔️ Via Montenapoleone is the most famous street in Milan’s luxury shopping district known as the Fashion Quad or Golden Quad. It’s the place where people that include Middle Eastern royalty and stars from the world of film and music go shopping in stunning boutiques in beautiful old palazzos, with interiors designed by top architects. For some of us, it’s also just a lovely place to wander, window shop and observe.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎄Milan is always special but during the Christmas season it takes on a whole new dimension. Yesterday the Swarovski tree was lit in the beautiful 19th century shopping arcade, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, and the lights switched on above. Christmas is coming, and in Milan it’s beautiful.

If you’re in Milan this weekend, head to the Pirelli HangarBicocca for Cerith Wyn Evans’ “...the Illuminating Gas,” 24 installations that constitute his biggest exhibition yet.

Mornings like this

Pizzoccherata, roughly translated as the event of eating pizzoccheri

Cold, wet and windy outside. Dreaming of this

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