She starts studying at a very young age, and she does it for two years, at the school of Filodrammatici in Milan. In the next two years she studies at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, but she is restless, and soon expelled from the school for insubordination. She never graduates, but she debutes in 1953, when she is 19, in F. H. Herbert’s “Quando la luna è blu”. In the same year, she joins the Compagnia dei giovani with Romolo Valli, Giorgio De Lullo, Rossella Falk, where she remains until 1962 interpreting successfully both dramatic (“The Diary of Anne Frank”) and comic (“Gigi” by Colette) roles. Left the company, she works with important directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Missiroli, Luca Ronconi. With Missiroli, at the Teatro Stabile in Turin, she plays Goldoni, Pirandello, Strindberg, Checov (she plays Sonia in “Zio Vania”, which is still her dearly-beloved role), Shakespeare, Webster, Wedekind. She works in many television dramas like “The Citadel”, “The stars look down” by Archibald Cronin and in Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield”, directed by Anton Giulio Majano. In cinema she works with Mauro Bolognini, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Enzo Muzii. Her most recent television appearance dates back to 1978 in “L’Agente Segreto”, directed by Antonio Calenda. In the 90’s she plays tragic roles in Euripides’ theatre (“Clytemnestra”, “Iphigenia in Tauris”) and in Pirandello’s “La ragione degli altri”. In 2001 she is awarded with the Ugo Betti career prize.

Adriano Goldschmied hails from the Italian port of Trieste and launched his first denim line in 1970 in the ski resort of Cortina D’Ampezzo. Eight years later Adriano founded Diesel and was instrumental in the development of successful European brands including Replay, Goldie and Rivet. In 1993 he began manufacturing a signature line, ‘A Gold E’, in Los Angeles. His subsequent venture, ‘AG Adriano Goldschmied’, won Sportswear International’s Best Women’s Jeans award in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Goldschmied then went on to create the luxury denim label Goldsign in 2005, elevating premium denim to new heights. In 2007 Goldsign merged with CITIZENS OF HUMANITY, bringing Goldschmied into the fold as a partner and Executive Vice President of Product Development, while continuing to design his Goldsign label. “My work is like a denim research laboratory for the whole company” Goldschmied says. “I like to push the envelope because sometimes you don’t know what the limits are until you have passed them.”

Roberto De Feo was born in Pieve di Soligo in 1963. He grew up in the eastern part of Veneto and around Pordenone. For the last twenty years he has lived in Venice. He was one of the first person to get a degree in Heritage Conservation in Italy, graduating at the University of Udine in Art History Research which he followed with post doctoral work at the University of Padua. Since 2001 he has been a research fellow and professor of the Faculty of Literature

and Philosophy at the University of Friuli, where he has taught History of Art at the DAMS degree course and in the Faculty of Cultural Tourism. A seventeenth and eighteenth century specialist, his articles regarding neoclassical painting and decoration in the Veneto have been published in Italian and foreign journals. He has a special interest in the work of Giuseppe Borsato, the scenery painter and decorator. Lately, he has dedicated his time to a problem

of autography related to a painting by Raphael intitled “Ezekiel’s Vision”, which has also interested the popular press.