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14:47 Tuesday 28 July 2026
Cate Blanchett will produce the film adaptation of Fashionopolis, Dana Thomas’s exposé on fast fashion Through her production company Dirty Films, she will be involved in the project. The film will be written and co-produced by Dana Thomas, and directed by Reiner Holzemer.
SS26, Charli XCX’s new single, is neither rock nor dance—it is fashion. And apocalypse, too: “Yeah we’re walking on a runway that goes straight to hell,” Charli sings on the album’s second single.
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Marriage is in crisis, relationships are in crisis, love is in crisis – and only an unbounded desire for friendship might save us from solitude

This is what Hélène Giannecchini explores in her book, titled Un desiderio smisurato di amicizia. We spoke to her about queer families, photography, and the idea that friendship itself should be legally protected.

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A board game is about to be released in which you play an office worker trying to survive corporate life without burning out

It’s called Burnout, and it was created by two young designers who left their jobs to dedicate themselves entirely to game design—and, perhaps, to escaping burnout itself.
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SS26, Charli XCX’s new single, is neither rock nor dance—it is fashion.

And apocalypse, too: “Yeah we’re walking on a runway that goes straight to hell,” Charli sings on the album’s second single.
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The one to find shade, the one to look for fountains, the one to complain about the heat, and all the apps we discovered we desperately need because of the heatwave.

They are called shademaps.app, fontanelle.org, and troppocaldo.it. It will be hard to do without them in the future.
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The latest, ridiculous result of Italian sovereignty is Emma, the AI that only gives wrong and delusional answers.

It was closed five days after the launch and after getting literally all the questions wrong that were asked of it.
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There is a mobile game that lets you “collect” stray cats you encounter on the street like Pokémon in Pokémon Go.

It's called CatchCat and it also has an archive, very similar to a Pokedex, where cats are classified with statistics and experience points.
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The co-founder of Wikipedia was banned from Wikipedia for trying to change Wikipedia’s rules without following Wikipedia’s rules.

Larry Sanger has proposed a reform of the entire online encyclopedia system, but apparently he did it the wrong way.
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Balenciaga loves Substack so much that it has become the first fashion house to partner with it.

The house has been using the platform for some time: there it announced the arrival of Piccioli and also streams the fashion shows live.

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Even fashion designers have turned to Chinamaxxing

From the conversation with Kris Van Assche to the strategies of Kim Jones and Claire Waight Keller. Why a generation of designers raised in the heart of Western luxury no longer sees the East as a commercial periphery.
by Giada Castaldo
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For the first time in its history, Prada has chosen a Palestinian ambassador, the musician Saint Levant.

Of course, the controversy quickly erupted on social media, sparked by a detail in the artist's outfit at Milan Fashion Week.
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In fashion, sustainability must stop being preaching and become practice.

In London, Uniqlo organized a round table to address the elephant in the room: how can a brand with democratic costs reconcile mass production with environmental respect?

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by Giuliana Matarrese
Fashion has never been a minor art.

Domitilla Dardi states in her book Sewing Universes, citing examples of designer architects and mathematicians who changed the world, starting from needle and thread.

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by Martina Forasiepi
The Antwerp Fashion Festival celebrates the city that changed fashion forever

Gathering the legacy of the Antwerp Six, the project aims to strengthen the position of the Belgian city as the capital of international fashion. Despite the government thinking (a bit) differently.

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For David Grossman, writing is the last true form of optimism

We met the writer in Turin, at the Salone del Libro. It turned into a long conversation in which he spoke about his morning walks, his past in radio, the Meridiani series, and the editor he has worked with for forty years.

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Cultura
The Boys was meant to be so much more – and settled for less

The success of this series is beyond dispute. But anyone who has read the comic it is based on knows that, in the end, it is a missed opportunity — a wasted chance to do something genuinely transformative for television and the superhero genre.
Cultura
European cinema goes to war

At Cannes, a clear trend has emerged, one that will define cinema through 2026 and beyond: the world is at war, and filmmakers are reinventing the war movie accordingly.
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My Brother Is a Viking is a film for three kinds of viewers: fans of black comedy, lovers of family drama, and those who are, quite simply, in love with Mads Mikkelsen

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Sandra Hüller could set an unthinkable record: four Oscar nominations, for four different films, in a single year.

The actress could receive a nomination for every film she appears in in 2026: Fatherland, Rose, Project Hail Mary e Digger.

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China sends embryo models into space to test whether human reproduction is possible beyond Earth

A necessary experiment to find out whether humanity’s dreams of galactic colonisation are truly within reach.
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A study suggests civilizations don’t collapse because of catastrophes, but because they begin to consume more than they can sustain – and that may already be happening to ours

The researchers also note that the futures in which we manage to survive are not impossible, but they would require conditions that simply don’t exist on Earth today.