Alla Carta #23 A/W 2023 surfing

Alla Carta #23 A/W 2023 surfingRatataplan, the 1979 film directed by Maurizio Nichetti, was the starting point for this new edition of Alla Carta. A metropolitan fable poised somewhere between the grotesque and the surreal, where the protagonist, Nichetti himself, utters not a single word for the entire duration of the film. A candid antihero who tells his story and happy ending, letting his body do the talking. He prefers to fall back on the ancient silent art of the gag, mixing

producing scripts for 1971’s The Panic in Needle Park and 1976’s A Star Is Born

panoramic in scope and theoretically both profound and accessible

Design is about egalitarianism

he walks us through every aspect of our lives: fashion

StudioSmall and Soft Power

more viction:ary’s original PALETTE colour-themed series has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world

the artist Ingeborg Lüscher discovered Armand Schulthess

and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path: poetry

and Chris Strong

Far from holding a fixed identity

Oscar Wilde or Mark Twain

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