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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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Women’s March Milan , domenica 19 gennaio!

Because life goes better with a caffè marocchino. Three layers of coffee, cocoa powder and soft fluffy milk. What more could a woman want?

The beautiful lanes of Montevecchia, or the old hill, about 30km north of Milan with its church, the Santuario del Beata Vergine del Carmelo, in the distance

Felix who fa felice, the cat who makes us happy 😻

Shadows on these blue-skies days

Imbarcadero, or literally where you get the boat. And if you’ve not yet been on a boat up Lake Como, it’s an experience of a lifetime.

Pasticciotto, a traditional cake from the town of Lecce in Puglia that reminds me of mince pies

These winter days

Sunny days, Epiphany, Nativity on the lake. Today is my favourite holiday, also because it involves the good witch Befana and it’s the day I first arrived here. Happy Epiphany, happy days 😎

Winter is my favourite season (and especially on Lake Como)

When good friends call round for coffee ☕️❤️

When the party’s over and you’re having the last bit of crostata for your breakfast because nobody does crostata like your friend does. Goodbye 2019. You were challenging to say the least. Hello 2020 and today’s glorious day of sunshine 🤓Happy new year to you all!

Twixmas TV dinners

Yesterday I finally got to see this! I’d seen the exhibition in Venice at Casa Tre Oci earlier this year, but I’m so glad I saw it again. Letizia Battaglia took up photography when she was in her late thirties. She left an oppressive marriage (she’d got married at 16, left a father for a husband), went to Milan, started working as a photo reporter and then went back to Palermo where she started as photographer at the Communist afternoon paper, L’Ora. She photographed everything from football matches to mafia killings for which her photographs became an important social document. She’s often photographed women and children, and particularly young girls, and it’s this that continues to fascinate me. She re-found herself in them - one of her most famous photos is the girl with the ball or la bambina col pallone. And there’s this, Donna che fuma, Catania, 1984, woman smoking in Catania, of one woman and possibly every woman.

The thing about Milan’s Duomo is that whichever way you look at it, it’s just so beautiful. This is the Duomo that was built with marble that was brought along canals known as Navigli that were subject to engineering by Leonardo Da Vinci. It also has Milan’s much-loved statue by the people of Milan, the ‘Madonnina’ or the little Madonna at the top.

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