Ophelia Gregory

ROME - Giorgio Armani, 90, has announced that he will not be present at the end of his fashion shows or to greet the public at Milan Fashion Week this year, due to a recent hospitalisation in the financial capital this year.

 The press release from the Armani group stated that Leo Dell’Orco, a well-known collaborator of Armani and creative head of the menswear collections, was set to represent him on the catwalk at the end of the shows. It continued saying that "Sr. Armani is at home and is fine” but must focus his efforts on recovering right now rather than on MFW. 

21 Jun 2025
Ophelia Gregory

 ROME – In case that keeps taking further bizzare twists and turns Charles Francis Kaufmann, 46, or “Rexal Ford” as he called himself, who stood accused of murder and the concealment of the bodies of his partner and 6-month-old baby, had received 860 thousand from the ministry of culture to make a film, according to the Guardia di Finanza.  

20 Jun 2025
Ophelia Gregory

 ROME – The British Embassy in the Eternal City hosted Thursday their annual birthday party for King Charles III with great success and many special guests at the beautiful Villa Wolkonsky, hosted by the British Ambassador to Italy, Ed Llewellyn. 

20 Jun 2025
Ophelia Gregory

ROME – The EGIC hosted their monthly conference at their HQ in the heart of Rome, this time offering an insight into the world of travel, war-reporting and exposure to new cultures from a panel of speakers that included a free-lance war-zone journalist, a Vatican lecturer who grew up in Soviet Ukraine, as well as interludes from our own editor, John Phillips, as well as, David Campbell Bannerman, former British MEP and chairman of the European parliament’s delegation to Iraq. 

19 Jun 2025
JAN FILIPOWICZ

 ROME – The proposed 2026-2027 regular budget for troubled ICCROM completely ignores the likelihood of the United States pullings its funding for the Rome-based cultural heritage quango, diplomatic sources say.

 Funding from the United States accounts for as much as 23 percent of ICCROM’s Regular Budget. U.S President Donald Trump has already released a shortlist of five IGOs that would retain U.S. support, and unsurprisingly, ICCROM isn’t one of them, the sources add.

18 Jun 2025