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The new issue of Vanity Fair is directed by Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino – Italian Cuisine

An innovative multimedia operation halfway between cinemas and publishing that launches a provocation: phase 4

The Oscar award Paolo Sorrentino is the artistic director in the new issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands from May 20. In the hands of the director, the newspaper becomes a screenplay, a film that writes a stellar cast of actors, artists and personalities as writers. The project is inspired by La Grande Bellezza, the director's masterpiece awarded by the Academy Award in 2014, and is developed following an innovative multimedia operation, halfway between cinema and publishing.

First of all the cover, a crowd of pink flamingos photographed at night on the Spanish Steps by Alex Majoli with Paolo Sorrentino: an iconic and surreal vision that announces the "Phase 4", dreamlike but programmatic moment to think about the future after the lockdown and the first attempts to restart. Everyone is called to imagine their own Phase 4. For Sorrentino, this phase coincides with the myth of the Great Italian Beauty, treasure and opportunity, an ocean of excellence to look at and from which to draw any hypothesis of rebirth. For readers who watch it, it is a call to commitment and imagination: everyone can send their vision of the future using the hashtag # phase4 and describing their dream for tomorrow with a photograph.

The contents of the issue will be enriched by some videos documenting the director's long work, all shot in the eternal city during the lockdown. For this special issue, the city of Rome has exclusively opened some of its major cultural institutions for reportage and artistic performances organized by Vanity Fair together with Paolo Sorrentino, documented in the issue and in the videos. Among these, the Borghese Gallery and the Opera House.

Great personalities of the international star system contributing to the number, who tell personal experiences, suggestions or memories related to Italian beauty: Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, Willem Dafoe, Christoph Waltz, Jude Law, Wes Anderson, Jane Fonda, John Malkovich, Rachel Weisz is Woody Harrelson.

Italian fashion is also the protagonist: the designer Alessandro Michele participates in the operation by dialoguing with Achille Lauro on the role of beauty in today's culture.

For contemporary art, however, Marina Abramović he created an exclusive work by answering a question from the director.

Isabella RosselliniFinally, it adds to the stellar cast of the issue by telling the parable of one's beauty: from the memories of parents Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini to success as an icon in the world of beauty and cinema, up to the new commitment as an activist, popularizer and emblem of a new inclusive and feminist aesthetic.

The new issue of Vanity Fair is dedicated to connections – Italian Cuisine

For the first time the French street artist JR collaborates with an Italian magazine and creates a work that becomes the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fari dedicated to connections

Jean René, aka JR, photographer and street artist among the most famous in the world for his works in metropolitan contexts, on the night of Sunday 3 May created a new installation on a wall in a Paris neighborhood exclusively for the cover of Vanity Fair Italy.

The work reworks one of the best known masterpieces in the history of art, the Creation of Adam, the most iconic fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Buonarroti.

What was the figure of Adam in the original work, in the reinterpretation of JR was replaced by a girl who is in front of God, both with their arms outstretched for a moment before touching each other.

This is the first collaboration that sees the French artist join an Italian magazine.

"The new connections to which we will be called after the virus emergency, the theme of the new issue of Vanity Fair, have been the topic of the creative process undertaken by the editorial staff with JR"He says Simone Marchetti, director of Vanity Fair. "We asked the artist to represent the fragility, potential, doubts and bets that we will have to face in the coming months and that we highlighted in the new issue. It was a challenge at a distance and in lockdown, a test of imagination that wants to show a way to create all the new connections necessary not only to get out of this difficult moment, but to build a better future".

The image of JR's work becomes the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands from May 6, dedicated to connections. Connections as new relationships, ties that go far beyond national borders and imposed physical limits; connections like new unions allowed by an innovation that passes through new priorities where technology is enabling to change, an integral part of the new daily system where what was not there before is the new indispensable.

A number that, through the authoritative voices of personalities and experts in the sector, rewrites and outlines the future to tell how our daily habits, relationships, training, culture, entertainment, use of services and have changed and will change our choices.

So the director Paolo Genovese writes a story for Vanity Fair about a platonic love at the time of the lockdown, the professor of Pedagogical Sciences Raffaele Mantegazza of the Milano-Bicocca University reflects on the loss of socialization between students in the middle of school desks, as important in education as learning, Giovanna Melandri, President of the MAXXI Foundation, recounts the changes in the way in which museums are used which will reopen starting May 18. The changes in the entertainment sector will also be inevitable, which will lead to a new way of connecting to performances through streaming, as YouTube number 1 in Europe tells Vanity Fair Cécile Frot-Coutaz. The television and radio host Daniela Collu in his sincere and unfiltered story, he highlights the problem given by the absence of connection that creates isolation. To connect the world of adults with that of children there is the story of the prodigious Mikail Akar, the "Picasso child", a 7-year-old listed artist as well as a social media star. A connection between brothers, that between Edoardo and Eugenio Bennato, led to the birth of the song Reality cannot be this. The passage talks about the network, the one that cancels every distance but that at the same time the two brothers describe as a prison, highlighting the importance of the real and non-virtual connection. On the same line of thought also the other musical voice of the number: Bob Geldof.

Instead, there is a hint of irony in the half-serious alphabet that Miriam Leone he drew up to demonstrate how coronavirus has temporarily infected our language. Among the various words appear for example gathering, masks, concern and connections, which for Miriam are: "The Net, the Internet, the wi-fi: the platforms in which to enjoy content have saved us from madness … because only the wise do not go crazy alone, in silence and isolated and we know how to be few and rare, like pandas".

All these items are joined by the reportage on Vo ’Euganeo, the municipality of Veneto where there was the first coronavirus victim in Italy and where, by making unconventional choices, thanks to a connected community that supports and knows how to team up, the epidemic was isolated and the country was transformed into a laboratory in open sky from which, perhaps, the answers for the treatment of the disease will come.

In conjunction with the issue of the issue, the #TheConnectors project will also start, a series of virtual conversations featuring the excellence of the new connection in the fields of fashion, art, entertainment and entertainment. 14 videotalk appointments with as many symbols of the new communication, who every day will invite a selection of friends and colleagues to their round table to discuss with them the evolution in the field in which they are innovators. Between them Beniamino Barrese, Elisa Maino, Riccardo Pozzoli, Pablo Trincia, Nico Vascellari, Charley Vezza, Matteo Ward, Zuzu.

The meetings will be online on the Vanity Fair social channels and on the website.

We are Italy: the new issue of Vanity Fair to support Italian companies – Italian Cuisine

On newsstands from tomorrow, April 8, the third act in the trilogy of Vanity Fair dedicated to the Covid-19 emergency: in the first a message from Milan to Italy and the world; in the second a celebration of the "heroes" engaged in the front line in this global struggle; in the latter, a manifesto in support of Italian companies, with visions on what would be needed to overcome the crisis caused by the virus and the questions on tomorrow's markets.

The cover is a work created exclusively for the Vanity Fair by the artist Francesco Vezzoli, in homage to Lucio Fontana: he portrays a tricolor canvas with a cut that represents a wound but also a crack. The work will be auctioned and the proceeds will be donated to charity to support businesses.

The chosen title is #The Italiasiamonoi, a hashtag that wants to celebrate that Italian unity and creativity that has always allowed this country to make the best of the worst situations it has historically faced.

Within the issue, however, Vanity Fair called upon the authoritative voice of Nobel Prizes, philosophers, managing directors, presidents of the most important Italian supply chains together with poets, artists and designers to ask themselves about the world that awaits us after the virus and on how to deal with the economic emergency that follows the health emergency.

Among the many characters: the Nobel Prize for economics Joseph Stiglitz describing his new vision of the state in the global post-virus market; the economist and former minister Enrico Giovannini which analyzes the Italian economic situation; the philosopher Silvano Petrosino who speaks of the new sense of time; the designers Mariagrazia Chiuri is Pierpaolo Piccioli who write two letters of reflection on the state and future of fashion; expert Li Edelkoort describing the trends to come in the creation and production of goods; the President of the Salone del Mobile, Claudio Luti, who speaks directly to the government; director Luca Guadagnino which analyzes the world of cinema and the future of entertainment; the songwriter Tommaso Paradiso who writes about the importance of knowing the past to understand tomorrow.

In the special issue, there are also interviews with key personalities in the world of motoring,hotellerie, of the food, of the beauty and technologies to understand how digital investments will be, among other factors, the key to the future.