ItaliaLiving.com is a fine living and luxury portal to the charm and elegance of the Italian lifestyle, focused on the discerning client with refined taste – a premier Italian luxury Web publication. We cater to the affluent consumer’s wants, needs, desires and expectations of high quality Italian products, services, and travel. Italia Living combines quality editorial content that is as sophisticated as our readers on a wide variety of topics – to travel information, videos & webisodes, exclusive VIP offers, and more. All presented with an elegant design for everyone wishing to experience the finest things in life.
Here you’ll find the best of Italian luxury living in superior products, services and places. From Italy’s best resorts & spas, top of the line Italian fragrances, food & wine, fashion and more. We’ll feature well known brands that have stood the test of time by building on their reputation of elegant design and exquisite quality; and showcase some worthy new finds we know you’ll enjoy, such as small artisan Italian craftsman who create collections of unmatched excellence.
For Italians, there is so much more to living well than just what you own or where you travel. A life of wealth could simply be great food, fine wine, and good company celebrated and enjoyed together. We hope to share what’s best about the Italian lifestyle and how to incorporate some of that into your life of living well. The Italian lifestyle is wonderful, but you don’t have to necessarily live in Italy to reap the benefits and pleasures.
Welcome to ItaliaLiving.com…sharing with you our passion for living la dolce vita.
Richard J. Michelli
Founder / Executive Director
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Some Featured Italia Living Contributors
Loraine Pavich
Italia Living Feature Editor / Bookings Director
Loraine’s passion is creating Italian cuisine, pulling bits of wisdom first from one cookbook and then another, times she unearths from her massive library, then adds her own unique twist to the task to ensure the dish manifests. This same approach to multi-tasking applies to the work that consumes her week, of which has involved juggling photographers, celebrities, and everybody in between for OK! Magazine. As the Bookings Director/Photo Producer for the weekly celebrity news publication, she employed industry knowledge, creative intuition, thorough planning to ensure that each one of their 500,000+ readers got their fill of news, beauty, travel, and advice. Loraine has also been active as a Freelance Photo Editor/Producer for Niche Media, LLC.
Hailing from Astoria, Queens, she upset the parents a bit in choosing work over school, landing a job at the Elite modeling agency, a perfect way to explore her interest in photography and cultivate her eye for “the shot,” the start of a diverse career in publishing. After a stretch working with all the New Faces at Elite, Loraine moved to Harper’s Bazaar, settling in the department where she would find her stride, bookings and casting, eventually serving in this same capacity over last two decades at a number of popular magazines like Maxim, Seventeen, and Marie Claire, before assuming the job of Bookings Director at OK! Magazine.
When Loraine isn’t charming celebrities or scouting exotic locals or invoicing famous photographers, she is scouring old book shops for interesting cook books to add to her collection. And she can soon place her own title to those shelves as she is pouring culinary knowledge into her own cook book to be published soon.
View Loraine’s featured interview pieces on the Italia Living Celebrity Spotlight.
Valeria Carrano
Italia Living Fashion Editor & Columnist
Valeria is a Personal Stylist, Writer and award winning Television Producer currently residing in Manhattan. She has styled and produced for nationally syndicated television talk shows on NBC Universal.
She has also produced and styled high profile photo shoots for well known top tier designer fashion forums.
She was recently featured in various media outlets such as Manhattan’s issue of VOGUE Magazine, a TLC Style segment, and has conducted radio interviews for her exceptional styling skills and services.
Valeria founded ValeriaStyle when she realized that many people feel overwhelmed when putting together styles and outfits. She can create at least 25 new combinations from outfits taken from your existing wardrobe alone! She is currently focusing on “real” people who would like to gain control of their wardrobe while sticking to a budget and learning style techniques. She divides her time between Manhattan and Amalfi, Italy. To learn more about ValeriaStyle, visit www.valeriastyle.com.
Valeria contributes a column for Italia Living on Italian luxury fashion topics covering NYC & Italy and also life on the Amalfi Coast.
Sally Hamilton
Sally Hamilton moved to Italy from Britain five years ago and now runs an online boutique specialising in exclusive, Italian-made clothing and accessories www.selandarisitaliancollection.com. With a gift for discovering designer outlets and traditional artisans in hidden corners of the Italian countryside, Sally’s latest innovation is the Shopaholics Tour of Central Italy’s best-kept shopping secrets, which includes a column here for Italia Living:
Italia Living Exclusive Series:
A Shopaholics Tour of Central Italy’s Best-Kept Shopping Secrets.
Rosario Scafaro
Rosario has lived in the Mediterranean heart, precisely in Acireale an ancient and coastal small town in the province of Catania (Sicily – Italy), and located at the foot of volcano Etna. He gives thanks to God, for being born in an enchanting country where the beauty of nature is mingled with the beauty of art, blended in suggestive and romantic scenery, from which most of his works draw inspiration. Tired of being a sales agent with no inner gratification and no longer wanting to disguise his passion for all that is art, he decided to embark on a new job (although everything was not so smooth) based on creating personal handcrafted works, while respecting the sicilian tradition.
And so, giving thanks as well to his loved and hated volcano Etna, for its precious and millenial gift called ” Lava Stone “, one of the most ancient and noble materials got from the Earth – he chose to use this stone to transform his ideas into art. Rosario invites you to read more about himself through this article on Italia Living, of which he is an affectionate contributor as well as reader. And be sure to visit his website www.EtnaMadre.it
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