Cesare Cremonini, director of the special issue of Vanity Fair on newsstands from Wednesday 18 November, it celebrates life with an exceptional issue dedicated to all the declinations of the word "Live". To do so, it has chosen to involve the great protagonists of Italian excellence in the field of current affairs, fashion, sport and art. "I believe that the greatest challenge of our present is to find a more human aesthetic, an approach to the future based on respect for life in all its forms. By recovering words such as professional ethics, consistency, passion, the country can be reborn. This is what I was able to learn through the eyes and experiences of the big names I was lucky enough to interview in this issue. "
In the issue we will find legendary names, capable of overcoming the challenges of time: Vasco Rossi, Roberto Baggio, Francesco Guccini. Women who represent a feminine model of timeless elegance: Roberta Armani. From the most touching stories (the workers of the show business and the poetic reflections of Dr. Gabriele Bronzetti) to the exemplary testimony of an extraordinary woman like Fiammetta Purse. All together with the intention of revealing through unpublished interviews the human and deeper sides of their life experience, made up of courage, talent and determination. A number that celebrates, in short, «the ability, the will, the stubbornness to live. Always, at any cost and however it goes ", as he explains the director of Vanity Fair Simone Marchetti.
The issue opens with an extract from the new book by the Bolognese singer-songwriter, Let Them Talk, to be released on 1 December, in which Cremonini tells what lies behind and inside a song, and why each song is a collective, personal and artistic story together.
On the cover dance in Central Park, Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to fill the role of prima ballerina at the American Ballet Theater, photographed by Francesco Carrozzini. At Vanity Fair he tells of his difficult childhood, of his belated approach to dance – the great love of his life – and of the importance of always pursuing his dreams.
Among the great characters involved by Cesare Cremonini in this collector's issue there is an unmissable one Vasco Rossi who, exclusively, responding to his appeal, explains in an extraordinary letter what it means for him to "live" and "survive", offering readers his poetic gaze as a necessary beacon to tell how he survived 4 decades of history and of life, from childhood in Zocca up to the years of lead, bringing his music beyond the 80s, 90s and 2000s.
Through an affectionate and intense dialogue with his father Francesco, Teresa Guccini talks about the pandemic that is changing the world, the passage of time, the importance of good reading (and good music). And he reflects on a fundamental lesson of the great singer-songwriter: the important thing in life is not having the answers, but continuing to ask questions. The same ones that arise Fiammetta Purse, daughter of the magistrate Paolo Borsellino, killed in Palermo on 19 July 1992, who fights in search of the truth about the via d'Amelio massacre and tells how having passed through an unbearable pain and one of the darkest pages of history, makes them the moment of crisis facing the world is less hard.
A poetic and profound reflection is also that of a football legend, Roberto Baggio, who finally speaks not only of "that" rigor (only those who have the courage to throw them are wrong with penalties), but also of his life after the ball, of the importance of concentrating on the present to build the future, of his masters of life and relationship with his family. The values are also the North Star of Roberta Armani, nephew of King Giorgio, Head of Entertainment & Vip Relations of the maison, who talks face to face with Cesare Cremonini on themes such as coherence, beauty, a sense of responsibility, the need for a profound and respectful reflection on the female body. And again: Cesare Cremonini paints a portrait of his friend Stefano Domenicali, President of Lamborghini and future CEO of Formula 1.
Of obsession with quality – and happiness – we speak with Nerio Alessandri, the visionary president and founder of Technogym, who has a winning idea: to help the world be a more beautiful place. To the voices of these famous faces are added those of Massimo Luna and Stefano Franchini, two former show business workers who, due to the pandemic, had to get back into the game and work as warehouse workers for Amazon and who at Vanity Fair tell how their lives have changed.
Finally, Cesare Cremonini wanted two authoritative contributors: Eugenio Capozzi, Professor of Contemporary History at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, explains why the politically correct in Italy hides the desire to please those in charge and Dr. Gabriele Bronzetti, surgeon specialist in pediatric cardiology at the Sant’Orsola Hospital in Bologna explains the importance and beauty of being different from each other.
Also for this issue of Vanity Fair the story continues on social networks, revealing special contents in preview. Like the letter that Cesare Cremonini wrote to Vasco Rossi to involve him in this special project and the response he receives from the artist.
