Walking the Runways at Milan Fashion Week with Model @vittoceretti

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Italian model Vittoria Ceretti (@vittoceretti) grew up just a few hours away from Milan, which makes walking the runways at Milan Fashion Week feel all the more special. “Milan makes me feel like I’m home,” says the 19-year-old. “Whenever I come here, I’m most looking forward to seeing my family and walking for the Italian fashion houses. It makes me proud to be representing the Italian flag!”

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Moving Forward with Paralympian Beatrice Vio

This post is in celebration of Women’s History Month. Throughout March, we’ll be highlighting the stories of women doing extraordinary things around the world.

Paralympian Beatrice Vio’s (@bebe_vio) relationship with fencing started at age 5. “It was love at first sight,” says the gold medalist, now 20, from Venice, Italy. In 2008, Beatrice contracted meningitis, which resulted in the amputation of both legs from the knee and both arms from the forearm, with severe scarring to her face and body. “Getting back into fencing was the only thing I had on my mind,” she says. “Some people said it was impossible, but I did it!” Today, Beatrice competes in wheelchair fencing, using a special prosthetic device, created by her father, to hold her foil (a fencing weapon). “In wheelchair fencing, you can’t move backward — you can only attack,” she says. “This is the same thing that you have to do in life, and I always do.”

Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPyoungatheart

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The goal of #WHPyoungatheart was to capture playful, candid photos and videos showing how life is better when we keep a touch of whimsy in every day. Each week, we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest here.

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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPinthestudio

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The goal of #WHPinthestudio was to photograph the places they or other artists go to be creative. Each week, we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest WHPinthestudio.

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A Touch of Nature with Artist Alfred Basha

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The man who made this piece of art began drawing five years ago. Even more impressive: he taught himself, without the help of any teacher or tutorial. “At a certain point in my life I was looking for new challenges, and I focused on illustrations,” says 25-year-old Alfred Basha (@alfredbasha), who brings nature and its various inhabitants to life with his realistic sketches. When he dives into a new project, the Italian artist typically opts for pen and paper. Then he gets to work, drawing wolves, bears and everything in between. As Alfred admits, “I prefer wild animals because they are out of human control.”

Keeping Space Between Shadow and Light with Marina Sersale

To see more of Marina’s photography, follow @eauditalie. Learn more about her artisanal fragrance company at @eauditalie_official.

Despite spending her summers on the coast in Positano, Italy, Marina Sersale (@eauditalie) is not interested in showing the immediate beauty of the places she’s in. “What I really like is the interaction between shadow and light,” Marina says of her mostly black-and-white photos. “I can isolate aspects of interactions in a scene and show levels of reality that are not immediately obvious.” A former documentary filmmaker, Marina didn’t get into still photography until 2012, when she started an account for her and her husband’s artisanal fragrance company, Eau d’Italie.

“The initial idea was to take pictures of the products, but I found that I wasn’t really good at that,” she says. “With Eau d’Italie (@eauditalie_official), we work on schedule and we work on idea; in my photos, I work with no schedule and no idea. It offers me complete creative freedom.” Today, Marina uses @eauditalie to capture scenes where there aren’t many people. “I don’t like crowds as a person, or crowds photographically,” she says. “In a crowd, I can’t see. I need space, I need emptiness.”

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Follow the Yellow Fabric Road at Christo’s ‘Floating Piers’

To see more images of Christo’s installation at Lake Iseo, check out the location page @The Floating Piers on Instagram.

(This interview was conducted in Italian.)

Lake Iseo, near Brescia, Italy, is glowing gold. “The Floating Piers,” a project from Bulgarian-American artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (known as Christo), opened one week ago. Marco Giovannelli (@marcogio59) was one of the first of 350,000 visitors to experience the yellow fabric road. “It’s a unique experience that allows people to travel a route that didn’t exist before,” Marco says. “There isn’t quite anything like it.”

The two-mile-long pathway was conceived by Christo and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, in 1970. The original plan fell through and the project was set aside, until it became possible for Christo to build the Piers and honor the love and partnership he had with Jeanne-Claude.

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