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Chiara Ferragni and Fedez, characters of the year on Vanity Fair – Italian Cuisine

Vanity Fair dedicates the new cover to Chiara Ferragni and Fedez, elected as the most influential Italian characters of the year. The issue, on newsstands from December 9, celebrates with them the 20 most significant personalities of 2020 for our country

From today, Wednesday 9 December, the new issue of Vanity Fair dedicated to 20 most significant Italian personalities of 2020: some have made us dream, others cry, there are those who gave hope, those who were an example and those who made us proud to be Italian. For Vanity Fair, telling the 20 characters of 2020 is a way to retrace an unprecedented year, especially celebrating those who have been able to dream, imagine and build the future beyond the difficult present.

In this perspective of commitment and projects, there are on the cover Chiara Ferragni and Fedez: "We have chosen to dedicate our cover to them for many reasons: the influence they exert, the commitment they have shown, the ability to use the new means of communication, the civil and political awareness they are developing", he writes in his editorial the director of Vanity Fair Simone Marchetti. "The thing that most impressed me about what we said with them (you can find the video interview on our website and the even more beautiful one by Marco Missiroli in the newspaper) is a sentence from Chiara:" I can't stay still, every day I have to find an experience that makes me and my family learn something new. Faith makes fun of me, he would stay at home, on the sofa. But then he follows me. And he is happy. We complement each other. I complete him. He completes me. And so we never stand still. And so we always learn new things "."

In 2020, the initiatives promoted by the couple are many: from the most important fundraising in Europe at the beginning of the pandemic (four and a half million euros destined for a new Covid ward of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan) to the recent creation of Scena Unita , a fund to help workers in the music and entertainment industry.
“I'd like my children to be proud of what we do beyond our jobs,” he says Fedez in the interview with Vanity Fair. «I want to make it clear that the social responsibility you have when you reach certain goals is just as important as the goals themselves. However, I would like not to claim authorship of the intensive care act because it is a puzzle that even if a piece had been missing could not have been realized. We were just a fuse .
"We agreed immediately in wanting to act," he echoes Chiara, "Federico wanted to move immediately, I pushed to organize something that could involve many people where there was really a need".

And for the 2021, their schedules are even more precise. Chiara: «When I started with the blog theblondesalad.com the world of fashion was very elitist, exclusive, a niche that only a few could access. It is now a much more democratic environment. This change has happened a lot through social media. Gender equality is important to me right now. For example, it is still difficult to find female CEOs and mothers: I would like to show that this is possible. I don't just want to tell my story, but to be a means through which other women can express themselves .
Fedez: «I'm trying to redevelop Rozzano, the neighborhood where I grew up. On an entrepreneurial level, during the lockdown, I made an operation with a listed company by selling 51% of my company: the result is that I found myself working with banks. The challenge is to make these so distant worlds understand how essential it is to communicate their ethical code and their philanthropic activities. It is really fundamental .

In addition to Chiara Ferragni and Fedez, for Vanity Fair the 20 Italian characters of 2020 are Pope Francis, Giuseppe Conte, the doctor and the scientists who first diagnosed and isolated Covid-19 in Italy (Annalisa Malara, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Concetta Castilletti, Francesca Colavita, symbol of all doctors, nurses and paramedics engaged in the front line in the fight against the virus), Massimo Galli, Pierfrancesco Favino, Willy Monteiro Duarte, Vanessa Incontrada, Alex Zanardi, Liliana Segre, Jannik Sinner, Gennaro Arma, Sandro Veronesi, Giovanna Botteri, Giorgio Armani, Achille Lauro, Elly Schlein, Francesca Sivieri, the Alpini and Marco Tuttolomondo.

Retracing the commitment already put in place during the lockdown and in the following months with various charitable initiatives, with this special issue Vanity Fair made a donation to Anpas Lombardy is Italian Red Cross Lombardy Regional Committee for the purchase of two rescue vehicles. The vehicles chosen, being equipped for off-road vehicles, will allow medical rescue and civil protection activities both in urban and rural areas, in inaccessible, mountainous or lake-river areas.
Regarding the donation, the President of CRI Lombardy Regional Council, Sabina Liebschner, and the President of Anpas Lombardia, Luca Puleo, they declare: «We are grateful to Vanity Fair for the gesture of generosity towards our Associations. It will contribute significantly to guaranteeing constant and continuous support to the Community . Finally, we thank the Autotorino dealership, Tavernerio branch, for having kindly made available the cars used for the delivery of the donation.

The bread that is made once a year in the collective oven – Italian Cuisine

Pan ner is the bread that is prepared in the collective ovens of the mountain villages in the Aosta Valley in the period from October to November

In the Aosta Valley there is a bread that is made only once a year. And the pan ner, which is consumed in various ways even in the following months, from aperitifs to desserts. It is usually prepared in the village's common oven on a Saturday in November, when the temperature is perfect for drying the loaves.

The preparation of the pan ner, a real ritual

Pan ner dates back to the times when no one in the mountain villages had an oven at home. So once a year we gathered in the collective oven, the one used by the families of the village or the valley, to prepare the pan ner. In fact, in every village, even if tiny, there was at least one large wood-burning oven available to the community, or to anyone who needed it. Sharing is the first law of the mountain people! Basically it is a wholemeal black bread, kneaded by hand with mother yeast (usually when there is a waning moon), with half rye is half wheat, often grown in their own fields. Once cooked, the pan ner rests in barns, in large cupboards where it dries on special wooden racks called ratelì. In this way it is kept for a whole year, also thanks to the cool, dry and windy climate. But as the days go by, of course, the pan becomes harder and harder, which is why a kind of guillotine is needed to cut it. copapàn. Over time, even if the ovens have arrived in the homes of some families (not all!), The tradition of preparing pan ner once a year in the shared oven continues, during a day that is sacred to all. Because it has now become a real ritual, from which the Aosta Valley people have no intention of separating, indeed; each town organizes a party in his honor, on different days depending on the area, but almost always between October and December, when the climate is ideal for all the rites of passage that the pan ner must perform.

The value of bread in the Aosta Valley

For the people of Aosta Valley, bread is linked to a piece of history, of their history of sharing and mutual help. For this reason, in the Aosta Valley, bread is closely linked to the sacred sphere and to ritual moments; for example, it is still given to children during baptism, who dedicated a poem to it for the occasion.

At the town hospital
I don't want white bread,
And the best gift they bring me is bread,
But … the bread of other times,
The bread that grandfather made;
The black bread, very hard, very thick,
The bread of my early years.
Hard, I like to eat it,
It tastes better than the biscuit!
Hard I like to watch it
Black bread is my friend!
(Marie Coudre, Our Dzen Patoué)

Just think that if for years in the rest of Italy they craved white and soft bread, here they have never stopped producing black and hard bread, also because over time it has become a precious and fundamental ingredient for many dishes in the kitchen. Even starting from its crumbs!

The pan ner in the kitchen: seupe and pan i crap

Pan ner looks like a very hard bread, usually cut into irregular pieces. It is almost always already on the table when you sit in a restaurant, so it can also be consumed alone as an aperitif. Alternatively, the sliced bread is perfect for the preparation of some seupe, which in the Aosta Valley are both first and single dish; in fact, they are a great classic of the Aosta Valley tradition, which in the absence of pasta, has always made its availability and differences a wealth in the kitchen. Thus the pan ner, almost always after being soaked in broth or milk, depending on the recipe, becomes the main ingredient of seupa de l’ano, that is, of the donkey; or of seupa of Cogne with stale black bread cut into small cubes, onion, butter, meat broth, fontina cheese and cinnamon; but also of a sweet seupe, like the seupa freida with red wine, sugar or honey; or, again, the more famous and delicious seupa à la vapelenentse, which takes its name from the valley of the same name. A similar version is found by Denise Marcoz at Lo Grand Baöu restaurant: and the seupa i plat, which has always been prepared in his family for parties or weddings. The ingredients are practically the same: bread, fontina cheese, broth, cabbage, cinnamon, with the difference that it is not baked in the oven, but on the stove for hours until the ingredients are perfectly blended and amalgamated. Finally, because nothing is thrown away: from the crumbs of pan ner the pan i crap, or crapt (depending on the dialect of patois spoken), a very popular dessert in the Aosta Valley, which perfectly reflects the spirit of recovery of mountain cuisine. The remaining crumbs of the bread are dipped in butter during clarification, ie during the preparation of the "beuro coulo“, And then covered with sugar. You can also add chestnuts, dried fruit, fennel seeds and candied fruit to the pan i crap: we will thus be faced with one of the best and most Aosta Valley mountain sweets there is.

As an accompaniment we recommend the red Saint'Ours dell 'Noussan Farm by Franco and Gabriella, in Saint Christophe, one of the best expressions of natural Aosta Valley wine, a growing sector to be discovered.

Photo Vogue Festival and Audi together for the fifth consecutive year – Italian Cuisine

The house of the four rings continues with the collaboration with Vogue Italia to identify and support the talents of contemporary photography

The synergy between Vogue Italy is Audi which for the fifth consecutive year is Official Partner of Photo Vogue Festival, the first conscious fashion photography festival dedicated to the common ground between ethics and aesthetics. Given the situation caused by the pandemic, the heart of the fifth edition of the Photo Vogue Festival (PVF), organized by Vogue Italia, moves to the digital platform photovoguefestival.vogue.it designed specifically for the event, which hosts exhibitions, talks and screenings.

From 30 October to 30 November 2020 a selection of photographs from the two main exhibitions (All in this together and In the picture – Shifting perspectives in fashion photography) is also exhibited outdoors, on the gates of the perimeter of the Porta Venezia Gardens, to interface and interact with the city of Milan. From 19 November the complete exhibitions will be available on the online platform which from 19 to 22 November will also host events, conferences and portfolio reviews. As with every previous edition, the festival is a unique opportunity for fashion and photography enthusiasts to get in touch with professionals in the sector, from artists to curators, and learn more about the contemporary photographic landscape.

The collaboration between Vogue Italia and Audi, which for the fifth consecutive year is the Official Partner of the Photo Vogue Festival, is based on the identification and support of contemporary photography talents.

The artists, thanks to an out of the ordinary sensitivity, are able to read the present with a keen eye and, at the same time, to intuit and shape the future. A vision of Audi's own, attentive to the design of cars with an unconventional personality, such as the new Audi Q2: an urban SUV where style and cutting-edge technology merge, a perfect car for everyday life that turns into a Personal Accelerator for those guide. Especially for all those independent women who love to achieve their goals without sacrificing elegance and style: the Audi Q2 best reflects this ambition, presenting refined aesthetics and a sensitivity to technological innovation that does not give up on emotions. With these women in mind, Audi and Vogue Italia have identified a young Italian photographer capable of telling the different facets of the female world through her images: Clara Melchiorre.

For the PVF, the artist has created an unprecedented service that pays homage to "progressive women": all those women who, thanks to their choices, become the bearers of change, inspiring and shaping the reality that surrounds them. The images will be visible on the digital platform of the Photo Vogue Festival from November 19th.

"Defending my vision and trusting instinct are challenges I deal with every day and being identified by Audi and Vogue Italia as an Italian artist capable of narrating the female world has enormous value precisely as recognition of the constant research carried out in this sense" , declares the artist Clara Melchiorre. “The woman I represented in these shots embodies all those figures who have left a mark thanks to their sensitivity and courage. The architectural environment is introduced to the viewer by the gestures of the model herself who interprets it. Diverse, elegant and essential are some of the features that unite the architectures chosen by the protagonist of this project: a contemporary heroine, brilliant interpreter of her time. "

To learn more about Clara Melchiorre's projects, on November 20 at 2 pm, the PVF platform will host a meeting by Audi entitled "Tomorrow's Women Today" which will focus on women in the arts. Thanks to the dialogue between the photographer, the writer Sara Rattaro and Alessia Glaviano, artistic director of the Photo Vogue Festival, we will talk about female empowerment and creativity, outlining the profile of today's “progressive women”. It will also be an opportunity to explore the inspirations and motivations underlying the work of the two creative protagonists of the talk.