Last weekend, an international jet landed in Laguna among major events and prominent figures in all fields.
He was not missed, and he was also accompanied by his own controversy (the one started by Pierfrancesco Favino, who in turn competed at the Festival with “Commander“, about the choice a foreign actor interprets one of the symbols of Italianness as founder of the iconic racing team, Emilian “Drake” Enzo), not even “ferrari“.
It doesn’t matter if in a film, one of the most popular at the Venice Film Festival on the Lido, while only a few kilometers away, “red” in the flesh (or, better, in carbon and rubber tires), is simultaneously remembered outside 300,000 enthusiasts at the Monza National Circuit.
Why Veniceas usual at the beginning of September, the weekend was indeed the focus of the whole world between dream yachts, events and parties.
Not only the International Film Exhibition of the Biennale (where the meeting with Architecture is also in full swing) and the traditional meeting with Historical regatta. The calendar of events in the lagoon these days has also replenished with an unforgettable fashion show at the Arsenaltribute to another great “Made in Italy” as “king” Giorgio Armani. All seasoned hearing which is invariably accompanied by secularism.
Venice caput mundi: “Only one night” in Venice for Armani Golden Lion
Venice is the ninth city in the world that the great designer has chosen as the stage for his journey since 2006, after London, Tokyo, Beijing, Rome, New York, Paris, Dubai and St. Moritz. Listed among the glamorous events of the 80th Film Festival and organized with minimal environmental impact, an evening at the Arsenal was apparently focused on haute couture fashion show at Tese delle Nappeand dresses inspired by the lagoon city.
After that, 700 invited guests attended a party with a live performance by Roisin Murphy and DJ Mark Ronson. And here we saw big names: from Sophia Loren To Jessica Chastainfrom Katerina Murino To Raoul Bovafrom Giuseppe Tornatore, Gabriele Salvatores AND Sergio Castellitto To Luca Guadagnino, Luca Argentero, Claudia Gerini, Margarita Bay and Eva Riccobono. This event provided an opportunity to strengthen Giorgio Armani’s connection to Venice and its exhibition.
A bond that began with Martin Scorsese’s Made in Milan documentary in 1990 and then continued with the numerous dresses the protagonists wore on the red carpet, all the way to a partnership as main sponsor of the festival started 6 years ago. The designer then connected the evening with donations to the non-profit organization “We are here, Venice” AND “Venetian heritage”, the last one for conservative restoration of selected works from the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery in Ca’ d’Oro.
City of Venice, thanks to Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, for the occasion gave Armani the Golden Lion in Murano glass.
“This is an award that I personally wanted to celebrate man, his commitment and his great passion for beauty, which he was able to turn into a successful company, symbol “Made in Italy” in the world“, the mayor explained.
“This award,” comments the stylist, “is a source of joy and emotion for me. I decided to organize this event as a tribute to the cityto which I have been strongly attached over the years.”
Emotions on the oars of the Historical Regatta
The first Sunday in September was then confirmed in Venice. Historical regattaWith The Grand Canal is lit up with a commemorative procession renunciation of the throne in favor of Venice Caterina Cornarothe bride of the King of Cyprus, presented on this occasion by Mary 2023 from the city of Beatrice Raphael.
In water, historical boatsstarting from refurbished Flower Bissona of the Most Sereneand representatives of local sports associations.
The day dedicated to Venice’s relationship with water is strictly lived rowboats.
“Not just a reconstruction,” Brugnaro stressed, “but a sign people born from water and finding their roots and their daily life in water“.
So the day ended like always sports competitions between the best contemporary fashion interpreters.
The cherished “red banner” handed over first classifiedin category “gondola with two oars“Formula 1 on oars”, renamed “Formula 1 on oars”, for the first time went to a young couple, the winners of the regatta. On pink gondolacrossing the finish line in front of “The Machine”, in front of, among others, the first President of the Court of Cassation Margarita Cassano, the Japanese Ambassador to Italy Satoshi Suzuki and the mayor of Prague Bohuslav Svoboda, were glassblower Nicolò Trabuio, 28, and traffic policeman Matteo Zaniol, 24.
With the support of thousands of people on the shore and on the balconies of ancient buildings overlooking the canal, the winners of the 2023 Historical Regatta in other categories are Sylvia Bohn and Deborah Scarpa between “women at the masquerade with two oars“, Matteo Pecoraro and Edward Patrick Nordio among “little su pupparini with two oars” Marine Club San Marco among the “six-oared caorlins”. Numerous young and very young people, including 80 children, among the participants (in the categories “maciarele” and “schie”), confirming the feeling of this sport even among new generations. And in the rowing competition University on historic galleons, the first place went to the Venetian Ca Foscari.
Gossip between arrests and persecution
In the general festive atmosphere in Venice during these hours, there were even a couple of episodes between news and curiosity.
The first concerned young Spanish actor Gabriel Guevara: having come to Italy to collect the International Filming Italy Best Movie Award Young Generation (moreover, the biennale, indicated in the note, is not related to the Venice Film Festival), he was arrested by state police under an international arrest warrant for sexual assault.
The police in this local case, which is at the center of the second episode, are quite chatty. 62 year old Venice City Police CommanderMarco Agostini, in fact condemned in a Facebook post that his subject of sexual harassment right during the Armani party.
Alberto Minazzi