Movies

Pixar Film Soul opens the 15th edition of the Rome Film Fest

By Francesca Lombardo –Legendary Father of Toys, Pete Docter current US director, screenwriter, animator and producer Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation Studios, winner of two AcademyAwards® for Up and Inside Out, comes back with a brand new film exuding a narrative that taps into a transcendental, religious-philosophical narrative; the afterlife, the drive to live and…
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Fashion & Beauty

Audrey & Hubert De Givenchy: Haute Couture Fashion is born out of a beautiful friendship

Do you know the movie Sleepers? It’s one of my favourite ones. At the beginning of the story the narrator says: “This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood.” I use this sentence as a spark to speak about one of the most enduring friendships, between two shining stars in the Fifties, Audrey Hepburn in cinema, and Hubert De Givenchy in fashion. They met by…
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Books

A day in Rome with Audrey Hepburn

I’m Paola, and I’m a new London Mums’ contributor based in Italy. A day in Rome with Audrey Hepburn is a book written by a friend of mine, Maurizio Canforini, a young Italian writer and theatre actor who, some months ago, decided to give me custody to the Facebook page related to his book. I invite you London Mums to join and like the page which re-visits lots of old facts and…
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