Become a member to watch the full series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #fashion #innovation #entrepreneurship #madeinitaly #moda #femaleentrepreneurs #sorellefontana Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Become a member to watch the full series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #design #innovation #entrepreneurship #madeinitaly #italiandesign Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Become a member to watch the full series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #fashion #innovation #entrepreneurship #madeinitaly #moda #femaleentrepreneurs #sorellefontana Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

A presentation by Luca Cottini, PhD * The wedding of Linda Christian (1949) and the global stardom of #sorellefontana * From Parma to Rome. Apprenticeship, war constraints, and the start of the Fontana Atelier * Movie costumes, wedding gowns, celebrity outfits, and the "Pretino" dress * The Fontana sisters, the creation of Italian fashion, and the Italian dolce vita * From seamstresses to authors, from dressmakers to confidantes of their clients (Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jacqueline Kennedy) * A successful model of #female entrepreneurship and a legendary #brand of Italian moda * A sophisticated simplicity. The style of Sorelle Fontana RELATED EPISODES Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s #femaleentrepreneurship #fashion #moda #italianfashion #italianinnovators #modaitaliana #roma #romanholiday #dolcevita #sorellefontana #cinema #avagardner #audreyhepburn ---- Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Become a member to watch the full series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #design #innovation #entrepreneurship #madeinitaly #italiandesign Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Become a member to watch the full series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #design #innovation #entrepreneurship #madeinitaly #italiandesign Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Become a member to watch the full series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #design #innovation #entrepreneurship #madeinitaly #italiandesign Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

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Watch the full episode on Leo XIII at https://youtu.be/ST_KIIAwwuo Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #leoxiii #catholicasocialteachings #catholicchurch #leoxiv #innovation #catholicism Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

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Watch the full episode on Leo XIII at https://youtu.be/ST_KIIAwwuo Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #leoxiii #catholicasocialteachings #catholicchurch #leoxiv #innovation #catholicism Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Become a member to watch the full series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #design #innovation #entrepreneurship #madeinitaly #italiandesign Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Watch the full episode on Leo XIII at https://youtu.be/ST_KIIAwwuo Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #leoxiii #catholicasocialteachings #catholicchurch #leoxiv #innovation #catholicism Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Watch the full episode on Leo XIII at https://youtu.be/ST_KIIAwwuo Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #leoxiii #catholicasocialteachings #catholicchurch #leoxiv #innovation #catholicism Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

A presentation by Luca Cottini (PhD) * The conclave of 1878. The election of the "Last" Pope * The global scenario of the new Pope: New media, industrialism, emigration, and trade wars * The focus on university. Newman, Neo-Thomism, and the Catholic University of America * The rise of industrialism and Rerum Novarum. The birth of Catholic Social Teaching * Italian mass emigration. Italy's first emigration law (1888) and the ecclesial support of emigration as a platform of missionary evangelization * The call of four saints: G.B. Scalabrini, Francesca Cabrini, Katharine Drexel, Thérèse Martin * The rise of the United States. Columbianism, Americanism, and the growth of the U.S. Church * The American Pope. The ties of Leo XIV with his namesake ---- RELATED EPISODES Book presentation (Luca Cottini) | The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919 https://youtu.be/kFHju-mhgPo Francesca Cabrini https://youtu.be/WH8iyCKc2Qw #americanism #leo #leoxiv #leoxiii #catholicsocialteaching #italianinnovators ---- Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Introduction to the #fridayacademy playlist. A site of learning, skill refinement, and idea sharing, outside our regular work hours. Over the next months, I will post shorter videos on Italian objects, designers, or industrial sectors, as well as tips to find ideas, refine your communication skills, or just learn something new. If you are interested in these contents, or would like to work on a specific project, I invite you to reach out on LinkedIn or fill a preliminary form at bit.ly/II-initialcontact to find out about coaching, consulting services, sponsorships, speaking engagements, and ad hoc content or seminars. #italianinnovators #consulting #coaching #design #storytelling #innovation #entrepreneurship #madeinitaly Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

A mini-series on the history of Italian design in 8 lessons. An object-based reflection on the development of Italian forms, products, and ideas over the centuries. Outline of lessons: Ep. 1 | The Renaissance https://youtu.be/M5EoEVyTzp4 Ep. 2 | The Early Industrial transition (1880s-1920s) https://youtu.be/0tHBl9yz3D8 Ep. 3 | Fascism & Industry (1922-1943) https://youtu.be/W7t3AtqS5B0 Ep. 4 | The Postwar Reconstruction (1940s) https://youtu.be/16njj0r5wGg Ep. 5 | The Economic Boom (1950s-1960s) https://youtu.be/CC24ym1e1EY Ep. 6 | The Age of Experimentalism (1970s) https://youtu.be/3NRJow_jJqw Ep. 7 | The 1980s https://youtu.be/wH-vAJ5faoo Ep. 8 | From the 1990s to the present https://youtu.be/2ocb7r04YCM --- Become a member to watch the full series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Check out member-only contents https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ --- #italianinnovators #design #innovation #entrepreneurship #madeinitaly #italiandesign Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

A few years after Luigi’s death, in 1902, Ferdinando Bocconi decided to open a university in his honor, the Luigi Bocconi University. That university – a commercial university – would become one of the leading economic institutions and business schools in the world. At the time of its foundation, three disruptive elements made it particularly innovative in the Italian cultural context. First, the oxymoronic idea of a “commercial university,” that is, of an academic institution offering systematic training in what was previously considered a trade, or something to be acquired only through practice or experience. Second, the focus on economy as a space of private initiative and social advancement, as a driving force of a liberal and plural society. Third, the emphasis on the international horizon of business. Related #italianinnovators videos: Entrepreneurship playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsEntrepreneurship * Ignazio & Franca Florio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEV13Jmi1lo * Francesca Cabrini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH8iyCKc2Qw * Sergio Marchionne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhly-IeoZDU * Walter Bonatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0V3tJpj8g0 * Brunello Cucinelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6kirM7jOgs Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Peretti's creative illumination was in 1969, during a trip to Portofino. Inspired by a silver vase at a flea market and a group of women carrying single gardenias in vases, she drew sketches of a silver vase modeled on Roman shapes and traveled back to Barcelona to forge with local silversmith Abad a sterling silver pendant of a miniature vase to be worn on a leather cord. Upon her return to New York, Sant’Angelo included her bottle pendant in his runway show, adding a rose to it. As the jewel captured the attention of the city’s trendsetters, becoming an instant success, Elsa finally realized what she wanted to do. “It’s going to be jewelry” she said to Sant’Angelo. Related #italianinnovators videos: Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s ---- Women playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsWomen * Fabiola Gianotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RudD7fWZqtY&feature=youtu.be * Laura Biagiotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzfe2IYZsHw * Margherita Guarducci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VghXAnQW1sY * Maria Montessori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EelxAZzabE * Samantha Cristoforetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-tqTcXmcs * Piera Cillario (the origin of Ferrero) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUt7-Ufy6Fo&list=PLEH7ndDET58NQofUX47LZg0bLlO0WG8dh&index=15 Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

She was a regular at studio 54 in midtown Manhattan. By the late 1970s she had ties with its many habitues: the fashion designer Halston, the singer Liza Minnelli, the visual artist Andy Warhol, and the photographer Helmut Newton. Over a decade, since her arrival in New York, she had made her way into the city’s trendiest circles, modeling for Halston as Halstonette, being the creative muse for the Italian fashion designer Giorgio di Sant’Angelo and posing for Newton’s immortal 1975 portrait with “bunny ears”. Over this time, the Italian model Elsa Peretti had won over the city not just with her style, but also with her incredible talent in designing jewels. Related #italianinnovators videos: Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s ---- Women playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsWomen * Fabiola Gianotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RudD7fWZqtY&feature=youtu.be * Laura Biagiotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzfe2IYZsHw * Margherita Guarducci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VghXAnQW1sY * Maria Montessori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EelxAZzabE * Samantha Cristoforetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-tqTcXmcs * Piera Cillario (the origin of Ferrero) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUt7-Ufy6Fo&list=PLEH7ndDET58NQofUX47LZg0bLlO0WG8dh&index=15 Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

As Lavazza’s business expanded, with its 40 employees and the additional involvement of Luigi’s three sons Mario, Beppe, and Pericle, the outbreak of WWI marked an unexpected rupture or occasion for maturity. In one way, the war forced the store to narrow and define its target. As raw materials became scarce and employees were drafted into the army, Lavazza kept his business going by limiting his trade to sugar and roasted coffee. In another way, the war introduced the opportunity to reconfigure the store as the promoter of a new coffee drinking culture. As the company sent large contingents of blends to the front to remedy the chronic exhaustion of soldiers, the habit of coffee drinking began to spread in the trenches, extending to generals and veterans, thus generating a growing demand for coffee in the post-war years. Related #italianinnovators videos: Food & Drink playlist: – bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFoodDrink * Davide Campari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQ1t8HdnCs * Luigi Lavazza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNCAqPNc0w * Massimo Bottura https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDuv7syzPLw * Michele Ferrero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If8mT8Gehec * Giulia Falletti di Barolo (Marchesi di Barolo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5GRFEq0XI * Guido Alberti (Strega) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKEacYcQivg Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Lavazza, who had acquired first-hand knowledge in Brazil, developed contacts in Genoa to acquire raw product in large quantities and started to treat coffee in the back of his shop, roasting it and blending different varieties in new personal recipes following his customers’ requests. What he created in his workshop was not just a signature product for his store’s clients but also a new concept: of transformed coffee, for personal use. This is still the key to Italy’s coffee industry today, as the country, which does not produce a single coffee bean, became a leading manufacturer of “transformed coffee” (with about 35% of the global share). Related #italianinnovators videos: Food & Drink playlist: – bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFoodDrink * Davide Campari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQ1t8HdnCs * Luigi Lavazza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNCAqPNc0w * Massimo Bottura https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDuv7syzPLw * Michele Ferrero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If8mT8Gehec * Giulia Falletti di Barolo (Marchesi di Barolo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5GRFEq0XI * Guido Alberti (Strega) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKEacYcQivg Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Luigi Lavazza moved to the city in 1888. He had a limited education but he brought with him a great faith, endurance, humility, and desire to grow. He worked as an excavator, bricklayer, salesclerk, and warehouseman, while attending first a school for workers over the weekends, then a trade school at night, and lastly a municipal school, where he earned a diploma in chemistry. In 1893 he married Emilia Morino and the following year he made his first investment with the savings he had accumulated. With the help of a former employer, who gave him a 10,000 lire loan, he acquired the fading business Paissa Olivero for 26,000 lire and in 1895 he opened his grocery store. Related #italianinnovators videos: Food & Drink playlist: – bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFoodDrink * Davide Campari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQ1t8HdnCs * Luigi Lavazza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNCAqPNc0w * Massimo Bottura https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDuv7syzPLw * Michele Ferrero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If8mT8Gehec * Giulia Falletti di Barolo (Marchesi di Barolo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5GRFEq0XI * Guido Alberti (Strega) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKEacYcQivg Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

The most legendary Riva motorboat however was the Aquarama, released in 1962 and produced in different versions until 1996. This instant classic, all in mahogany and able to reach 45/50 knots, is now considered the Ferrari of boats, “a brand within a brand,” or simply the most iconic yacht ever. The Aquarama was born at the explicit request of customers who wanted a more practical Tritone and its name came from the curved widescreen Cinerama which the hull’s wrap-around windshield imitated. While Gianni Agnelli’s boat trips near the Amalfi Coast certainly contributed to the nautical legend of Aquarama in the early 1960s, the project which really launched its epic was the 1968 collaboration with Ferruccio Lamborghini, as Riva tailored for him a unique model powered by Lamborghini engines. Related #italianinnovators videos: Design playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsDesign * Alfonso Bialetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBv8NoIZihw * Gio Ponti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amDWoP_2gc * Silvio Gazzaniga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ-XBUZ7tc * Carlo Bugatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cuR_53Q2OQ * Battista and Sergio Pininfarina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKWDQgwZ-Q * Gae Aulenti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1r5khAmipU * Giorgetto Giugiaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoEzv2uqgI&t=336s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

Carlo Riva was not born on the sea, but he was part of a family of boatmen. His great grandfather Pietro Riva had founded the family business in 1842 in Sarnico, Lombardy, on the shores of Lake Iseo. After a storm devastated the local fishing fleet, he did not succumb to resignation, and, taking destiny into his own hands, he opened a yard and restored all the vessels, earning the local people’s respect. Building on his reputation, his son Ernesto would start to power boats with internal combustion engines at the end of the 19th century. After WWI, his son Serafino would shift production from transport vessels to motorboats, pioneeringly investing in racing yachts and winning countless competitions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the brand reached its fourth generation, in the years of the dolce vita, Serafino’s son Carlo would become the visionary architect of the company’s global success. Related #italianinnovators videos: Design playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsDesign * Alfonso Bialetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBv8NoIZihw * Gio Ponti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amDWoP_2gc * Silvio Gazzaniga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ-XBUZ7tc * Carlo Bugatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cuR_53Q2OQ * Battista and Sergio Pininfarina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKWDQgwZ-Q * Gae Aulenti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1r5khAmipU * Giorgetto Giugiaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoEzv2uqgI&t=336s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

In Inferno XXI, Dante actually compares the tireless activity of devils to the relentless labor of shipbuilders in the Venetian arsenal as “one makes a vessel new, one caulks the ribs of a boat that has made many a voyage, one hammers at the prow, one at the stern, and another mends the mainsail”. Dante’s description of the shipyard is not just an homage to the grandeur of Venice, and the other 14th century sea republics, but also a lively testimony of the Italian tradition of excellence in shipbuilding, a tradition of distinction which continues from past centuries to our present, as Italy produces 40% of the world’s super yachts. Related #italianinnovators videos: Design playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsDesign * Alfonso Bialetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBv8NoIZihw * Gio Ponti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amDWoP_2gc * Silvio Gazzaniga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ-XBUZ7tc * Carlo Bugatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cuR_53Q2OQ * Battista and Sergio Pininfarina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKWDQgwZ-Q * Gae Aulenti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1r5khAmipU * Giorgetto Giugiaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoEzv2uqgI&t=336s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

A preview of Luca Cottini's new book "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (University of Toronto Press, 2025) Full book presentation https://youtu.be/kFHju-mhgPo This book offers an opportunity to provide an external view and perhaps stir a debate on words that we commonly use, like America, Americanism, or Americanization, which require historical contextualization and more thorough reflection. So, the book offers an Italian alternative to the predominant narration of America which, from the Enlightenment to the 20th century, is mainly conveyed through French sources. The book also traces direct contacts between Italian and American cultures through the sources related to artists, journalists, travelers, missionaries, both from Italy to the United States and from the United States to Italy, and the book aims at exploring the political context where Italians end up in the United States and the political context where Americans operate in Italy during the period of the turn of the 20th century. #america #americanism #antiamericanism #americanization #universityoftoronto #emigration #italianemigration #italianinnovators Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © Italian Innovators 2025. All rights reserved. While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

A presentation of the new book by Luca Cottini, PhD. * An Italian vision of Americanism. Italian travelers to the US. American travelers to Italy (1888-1919). * From the first emigration law (1888) to the crisis of New Orleans (1891) * From the Columbian expositions (Genoa & Chicago, 1892-93) to the Spanish American war (1898) * The soft power of American industry. Americanism as an export ideology * Americans in Italy from the end of the 19th century to WWI. Henry James, John Sargent, Willian Cody (Buffalo Bill), Wilbur Wright, Theodore Roosevelt, JP Morgan, Fiorello La Guardia, Woodrow Wilson, Ernest Hemingway * What does an Italian perspective reveal about the global rise of the United States? * What makes the concept of "Americanism" so relevant (in an age of "anti-Americanism)? #america #americanism #antiamericanism #americanization #universityoftoronto #emigration #italianemigration #italianinnovators Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2025 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

A preview of Luca Cottini's new book "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (University of Toronto Press, 2025) Full book presentation https://youtu.be/kFHju-mhgPo The book aims to predate the Americanization of Italy from the years after World War II to the turn of the 20th century. The book also aims to explore the soft power of American industry and to see Italy as the privileged site for a U.S. penetration in the European market. So, Italy, thanks to its migrant community, creates a fertile soil for Americans to develop an economic presence. And the book also aspires to reconstruct the meaning of Americanism in an age like ours, so the age post-1945 that has instead embraced the concept of anti-Americanism. The book tries to offer the reconstruction of the social debate on Americanism that takes place in the United States as an internal debate on citizenship, but also tries to argue that this concept, this debate, becomes an export ideology then in Europe and acquires different meanings over time. #america #americanism #antiamericanism #americanization #universityoftoronto #emigration #italianemigration #italianinnovators Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © Italian Innovators 2025. All rights reserved. While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Una giovane ragazza italiana, nata a Torino e cresciuta a Genova, dove ha studiato design e costumi, si trasferisce in Inghilterra, dove cerca di guadagnarsi da vivere a Londra lavorando nella boutique di un'amica. Innamorata del teatro e del cinema, che, ammise poi, continuava a chiamarla, la giovane apprendista iniziò a lavorare sui costumi grazie a un incontro casuale con il regista americano. Nel 1968 si ritrova sul set del capolavoro di 2001: Odissea nello spazio. La sua storia inizia qui, nell'incontro con Kubrik, e nella proficua collaborazione che lì è iniziata. Canonero sarà la mano dietro suoi capolavori come Arancia meccanica nel 1971, Barry Lyndon nel 1975 e Shining nel 1980. L'Oscar per i suoi costumi storici in Barry Lyndon le valse una tale reputazione che George Lucas le chiese di disegnare i costumi per Star wars. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs * Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s * Elsa Peretti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUkVNyfbaw * Giorgio Armani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3xhDAAf--Y&t=1s --- Women playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsWomen * Fabiola Gianotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RudD7fWZqtY&feature=youtu.be * Laura Biagiotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzfe2IYZsHw * Margherita Guarducci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VghXAnQW1sY * Maria Montessori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EelxAZzabE * Samantha Cristoforetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-tqTcXmcs --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

In the Co-Cathedral of Taranto, which he planned in the Apulian city in 1970 and which was dedicated to the “Great Mother of God”, Ponti envisioned a sublime synthesis, staging the continuity of temporal and atemporality in the idea of a sail (the façade), dialoguing with the sea (as mirrored in the water pools) and the sky, as implied in the lightness and light of its structure. The building’s mix of stone and wind, of depth and grace, is a marvelous example of Italian and contemporary religious architecture. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Design playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsDesign * Alfonso Bialetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBv8NoIZihw * Gio Ponti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amDWoP_2gc * Silvio Gazzaniga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ-XBUZ7tc * Carlo Bugatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cuR_53Q2OQ * Battista and Sergio Pininfarina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKWDQgwZ-Q * Gae Aulenti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1r5khAmipU * Giorgetto Giugiaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoEzv2uqgI&t=336s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

Also in architecture, contrast, or rather “balance” of opposites is the key force behind Gio Ponti’s style. Ponti identified the ongoing synthesis of opposites with the word “continuity”. We see this “continuity” in the Pirelli skyscraper that he designed in Milan with Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso. The tapered shape of the tower, which you might associate with the monolith symbol of Kubrik’s 2001. A Space Odyssey is dynamically set in motion by a stylized tire tread rising vertically on the sides of the building. The skyscraper known as “il Pirellone” which became a symbol of Italy’s economic miracle and for years was the tallest building in Europe, was in fact the headquarters of the tire company Pirelli and stood on the site of its previous factory prior to its bombing in 1943. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Design playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsDesign * Alfonso Bialetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBv8NoIZihw * Gio Ponti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amDWoP_2gc * Silvio Gazzaniga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ-XBUZ7tc * Carlo Bugatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cuR_53Q2OQ * Battista and Sergio Pininfarina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKWDQgwZ-Q * Gae Aulenti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1r5khAmipU * Giorgetto Giugiaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoEzv2uqgI&t=336s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

Ponti’s minimalist approach to simple beauty, as it appears in common objects like conic door handles, found its most celebrated expression in his Superleggera chair, which he designed for Cassina in 1957. As Italian writer Italo Calvino theorized, nothing is more complex than simplicity, and perfection is the ultimate outcome of subtraction. This is even more valid for a chair. Ponti’s Superleggera reaches this perfection with artisanal elegance and cutting-edge research through a marvelous synthesis of light weight, strength, durability, and comfort. So, lightness and light, dynamism and solidity, comfort and legacy. Also in architecture, contrast, or rather “balance” of opposites is the key force behind Gio Ponti’s style. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Design playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsDesign * Alfonso Bialetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBv8NoIZihw * Gio Ponti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amDWoP_2gc * Silvio Gazzaniga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ-XBUZ7tc * Carlo Bugatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cuR_53Q2OQ * Battista and Sergio Pininfarina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKWDQgwZ-Q * Gae Aulenti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1r5khAmipU * Giorgetto Giugiaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoEzv2uqgI&t=336s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

The second defining event of Gucci’s success relates to the postwar years and the release of the famous Bamboo bag in 1947. The bag, an all-time favorite of celebrities and royalty and still a hallmark of the brand, came out of necessity, as the company was still dealing with the lack of foreign supplies, and out of its reappropriated equestrian vocation, as a saddle’s shape gave Gucci the inspiration to turn bamboo into an original handle. A traditional saddle girth would also be the inspiration for the green-red-green stripe which de facto became the trademark design of the company over the following years. So experimental sourcing and memory reinvented. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs * Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s * Elsa Peretti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUkVNyfbaw * Giorgio Armani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3xhDAAf--Y&t=1s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

The blockage of leather similarly forced Gucci to ration production and test new solutions, as he branched out into shoes, wallets, and belts, and began to experiment with alternative bags, woven with a special hemp from Naples and printed with a series of small, interconnecting diamonds in dark brown on a tan background. These lightweight bags, which were printed with the repeating double-G initials that Guccio’s son Aldo had first designed in 1933, would become the company’s signature product. So, limit as a condition of resourcefulness and a stimulus for innovation. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs * Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s * Elsa Peretti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUkVNyfbaw * Giorgio Armani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3xhDAAf--Y&t=1s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

It is fair to say that Guccio’s time in London was truly an experience of illumination. The young man worked in the hotel as dish washer, waiter, and concierge, but his most instructive assignment was that of elevator attendant. As he gave elevator rides to elegant upper-class hotel guests, he observed their luggage with curiosity, and in his brief interactions with celebrities and politicians he quickly learned their style, clothing, accessories, jewelry, and manners. That’s the power of small talk! It is here that Guccio first realized the coded language of leather bags. It is here that he first grasped the needs and wants of celebrities. It is here that we can trace the early intuition of his later company. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs * Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s * Elsa Peretti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUkVNyfbaw * Giorgio Armani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3xhDAAf--Y&t=1s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

In the early 1950s Taglioni had made a name for himself working for the motorcycle producer Mondial, leading the company to win the Motogiro of Italy in 1954. By mistake, however, the team did not invite him to the celebration dinner after the victory, and after that, Taglioni would never show up again. After he quit Mondial, Ford and Ferrari soon approached him with lucrative proposals, but he turned them down, intrigued by Ducati, which instead offered him an uncompensated month-long trial, but with carte blanche for all his projects. As his wife Narina put it, Taglioni accepted Ducati’s bid and worked tirelessly for 40 days, designing, testing every component, and in the end, authoring the Gran Sport 100, the motorbike which would triumph at the Motogiro of 1955 and which would become known as “La Marianna”. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Cars and transportation playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsAutomobile * Carlo Riva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jDD6vXvL4 * Nicola Romeo (Alfa Romeo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SOP5nq45g * Alfieri Maserati https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktXIi39y_E * Enzo Ferrari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rx-bd0s2A * Ferruccio Lamborghini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E04gKmv-Ew --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

The best part of a book for an author is what happens after publication. Before that, it’s a story that we can control. After that, it becomes something else. It’s the same for any product and brand. In the same way, in fact, the legend of Ducati starts from this break, from the unforeseeable life that the product generated in dialogue with its users. The mastermind of this new story is the visionary engineer Fabio Taglioni. His hiring, in 1954, is what twisted the plot of Ducati forever, making it over the following decades one of the most recognizable brands in the world. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Cars and transportation playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsAutomobile * Carlo Riva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jDD6vXvL4 * Nicola Romeo (Alfa Romeo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SOP5nq45g * Alfieri Maserati https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktXIi39y_E * Enzo Ferrari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rx-bd0s2A * Ferruccio Lamborghini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E04gKmv-Ew --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

On October 12, 1944, a cohort of allied bombers took off from Southern Italy directed toward Bologna. Their mission was to destroy the Ducati factory, which the Germans had reconverted into their own productive site during the military occupation of the peninsula. Over the previous decade, since the opening of the Borgo Panigale plant in 1935, Ducati had become the largest employer in Bologna and Italy’s leading electrical company, manufacturing radio parts and receivers, video projectors and portable-sized cameras, in collaboration with the optical institute of Florence, and even electric shavers, especially after the success of the first made-in-Italy model Raselet. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Cars and transportation playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsAutomobile * Carlo Riva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jDD6vXvL4 * Nicola Romeo (Alfa Romeo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SOP5nq45g * Alfieri Maserati https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktXIi39y_E * Enzo Ferrari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rx-bd0s2A * Ferruccio Lamborghini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E04gKmv-Ew --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

Fu nel 1858 che Luigi decise di emigrare negli Stati Uniti, sulla scia del fratello diplomatico Alessandro. A New York si era fatto strada insegnando italiano e francese alla gioventù locale, e tre anni più tardi, nel 1861, aveva sposato l’americana Isabel Reid. Lo stesso anno dell’unificazione italiana e dell’inizio della guerra civile americana. Passó poco tempo che, mosso dagli stessi ideali di libertà della sua adolescenza, Louis di Cesnola si arruolò nel quarto reggimento di cavalleria di New York. Negli anni della guerra civile, verrà accusato di tradimento, ferito, preso prigioniero, liberato e onorato, ma non perderà mai di vista l’ardore per la libertà che l’aveva mosso da giovane. Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Dal Piemonte a New York, dalla guerra civile americana al consolato di Cipro, dalle rovine di Kourion al Metropolitan Museum of Art. La storia di Luigi Palma di Cesnola parte dai campi di battaglia della prima guerra d'indipendenza e si snoda dalla guerra di Crimea all'apprendistato come tutor d'italiano a New York. Dopo l'incontro con Isabel Reid, la donna che diventerà sua moglie, Louis farà parte del reggimento cavalleria di New York, combatterà per la libertà e diventerà console americano a Cipro. Fu proprio lì che inizio la sua collezione di reperti archeologici, che donerà poi al museo di New York, e fu grazie a questa esperienza che acquisì le competenza per fondare e dirigere per primo una delle istituzioni più prestigiose della città, il Metropolitan Museum of Art, quello che conosciamo oggi solo come il Met. #metropolitanmuseumofart #metropolitanmuseum #art #archaeology #newyork Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2024 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Giunto a Milano la mattina del 29 giugno 1900, si fece la barba e mangiò con uno sconosciuto, assicurandogli che presto avrebbe rivisto il suo volto. Quella sera, nella vicina città di Monza, s’intrufolò tra la folla radunata per una competizione di ginnastica e al passaggio del Re, sparò 4 colpi. Non al Re Umberto, disse poi, ma al Re, come principio. Processato e condannato all’ergastolo, fu imprigionato prima all’Elba, in una cella sotto il mare, e poi sull’isola di Santo Stefano, dove fu trovato impiccato in circostanze sospette un anno dopo, il 22 maggio del 1901. La sua tomba si trova ancora sull’isola. #italianinnovators #anarchici #anarchia #bresci Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

La storia dell'anarchico che uccise il re Umberto I. Da Prato al penitenziario di Lampedusa. Da Paterson, NJ a Monza, da Ventotene a Buffalo. Il viaggio di un emigrante inquieto, che darà forma ed espressione concreta a un duraturo pregiudizio americano verso gli anarchici italiani: dalla morte del presidente McKinley (1901) al caso internazionale di Sacco e Vanzetti (1927). La vicenda dell'uomo che ha sfidato la monarchia, la cui leggenda ha superato la sua giovane (e sospetta) morte e ha attraversato come un presagio nascosto tutto il XX secolo, sia in Italia che negli Stati Uniti. #italianinnovators #gaetanobresci #bresci #paterson #anarchia #anarchici #anarchismo Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2024 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Suo fratello Pietro era partito per l’Argentina quando era piccolo e a Buenos Aires era diventato educatore, naturalista e padre di quello che diventerà poi lo scrittore e saggista argentino Raùl Scalabrini Ortiz. Quando si imbarcò per la prima volta per andare oltreoceano nel 1901, Giovanni Battista decise di allungare il suo viaggio dal Nord al Sud America per rivederlo, dopo aver visitato negli Stati Uniti visitare il presidente McKinley, il vescovo di Baltimora James Gibbons (la mano dietro la Rerum Novarum, la prima enciclica sociale di Papa Leone XIII), e la suora missionaria Francesca Cabrini che un tempo aveva inviato dalla sua diocesi a New York. Fu un viaggio lungo ed estenuante che segnò profondamente la salute di monsignor Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, vescovo di Piacenza, che morirà 4 anni più tardi, ma fu un viaggio che coronò una vita al servizio degli emigranti e una missione personale di rimarginare distanze e conciliare posizioni lontane. #italianinnovators #storieamericane #scalabrini Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Il vescovo che mise d'accordo lo Stato e la Chiesa. Da Piacenza agli Stati Uniti, dagli Stati Uniti all'Argentina, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini fu il missionario dei migranti italiani, capaci di riconnetterli alla loro tradizione religiosa e culturale. Il suo apostolato per gli emigranti lo renderà esempio per cattolici e laici del suo tempo, e il suo contributo di evangelizzazione e civilizzazione è ancora un segno molto profondo nelle Americhe. #italianinnovators #scalabrini #scalabriniani Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2024 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Grazie alla sua popolarità fu eletto al Congresso nel 1916 – il primo italo americano di sempre. L’inizio del suo servizio però coincise con un momento chiave della guerra, quando Wilson, abbandonata la neutralità, aveva deciso di entrare nel conflitto europeo nell’aprile del 1917. Nell’estate di quell’anno, La Guardia prese la situazione di polso e, congedatosi dal Congresso, si arruolò nell’aviazione americana. Fu lui, il 16 ottobre 1917 (due settimane prima della disfatta di Caporetto) ad allestire il primo campo americano in Italia, non a caso a Foggia, la città natale di suo padre. La sua divisione a Camp Foggia - la Foggiana – diventerà un punto di riferimento fondamentale dell’azione militare, diplomatica e culturale americana in Italia durante l’anno finale della guerra. #italianinnovators #storieamericane #laguardia #foggia Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Da Foggia a Foggia. Dalla città natale di suo padre Achille, compositore giramondo, a Camp Foggia, dove per primo, nell'ottobre del 1917, il figlio Fiorello stabilì la prima divisione aerea americana, la cosiddetta Foggiana, che molto impatto avrà sul morale degli italiani nei mesi successivi a Caporetto. Traduttore, diplomatico, eroe di guerra, riformatore. Fiorello La Guardia fu un uomo di molti mondi, capace di dare rappresentanza politica agli Italian Americans e di influenzare l'opinione pubblica italiana durante la guerra. Al suo ritorno in patria nel 1918, fu eletto di nuovo al Congresso e tra il 1934 e il 1945 diventerà sindaco di New York, uno dei piú amati. La città gli dedicherà uno dei suoi aeroporti. #italianinnovators #laguardia #laguardiaairport #wwi #primaguerramondiale #nyc #newyork Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © 2024 Italian Innovators LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this video/audio-visual content may be reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly or via transmission, or displayed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, uploading, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner, except where allowance is made for a non-commercial, transformative fair use under 17 U.S. Code § 107, including, but not limited to criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This is the work of Italian Innovators LLC, and not of any affiliated organization.

Dopo aver praticato medicina a Firenze e in Medio Oriente, il toscano Mazzei aveva deciso di tentare la fortuna a Londra nel 1755. Mentre lavorava lì come insegnante di italiano, gli capitó d’imbattersi in città in due giovani provenienti dalle colonie americane, tal Benjamin Franklin di Philadelphia e Thomas Jefferson dalla Virginia. Furono loro a convincerlo a trasferirsi nel Nuovo Mondo e iniziare un business di export di vino e olive toscane. Quando s’imbarcò da Livorno nel 1773 con destinazione Virginia non sapeva certo cosa sarebbe nato da quella sua avventura. Si portò con sé piante, semi e 10 contadini, e inizió a lavorare nella tenuta dell’amico Jefferson, dove piantò una vigna e un frutteto di ciliegie e albicocche. Ben presto, con la dichiarazione d’indipendenza del 1776 e lo scoppio della guerra, Jefferson gli affidò però un’altra missione: quella di acquistare armi dall'Europa e spedirle segretamente in Virginia. #italianinnovators #storieamericane #costituzione #constitution Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.