Italian Magazine: MAGAZINES' BARE ALL APPROACH DRAWS PROTEST
OPPOSITION TO THE USE OF BARE BREASTS TO SELL ITALY'S MAJOR MAGAZINES AT
NEWSSTANDS IS GROWING.
For a news story about political kickbacks, a magazine cover shows a naked woman sprinkled with bank notes. An anti-smoking article features a topless woman puffing a cigar.Italy's major news magazines are as well known for the flesh they expose as the stories they uncover. Bare breasts regularly appear on the covers as an X-rated invitation to subjects as lurid as sex clubs or as light as summer vacations. But after years of cheesecake photos, some are getting fed up.A...
Photographer to shoot two fashion layouts for Italian magazine
By Carol Cling Review-Journal Movie and video cameras capture most location shots in Las Vegas.Occasionally, however, a still camera - and the photographer behind it - captures the spotlight.That's the case this week when award-winning photographer Albert Watson is expected in town to shoot two separate fashion layouts for the Italian magazine Amica.Watson's work ranges from advertising (remember those celebrity-packed Gap ads from a few years...
Italian Magazine: Megan leaves her imprint in land of the look,
THE SWEET LIFE
Australian model Megan Gale is leading what an Italian magazine has called "the conquest of Italy by fascinating Australian women." Statuesque, green-eyed Megan, called in Italy a "10-minutes girl" because of her rapid celebrity, has just appeared in her first film and is featured in two national publicity campaigns.Her latest press and billboard advertisements for the mobile phone company Omnitel identify her with Italy as she reclines on a...
Italian Magazine: NAMES AND FACES
The Italian magazine Il Mondo reports that director Federico Fellini, whose art films such as "8 1/2" and "La Dolce Vita" have won him Oscars and awards at Cannes, is finishing work on his second television commercial, a spot for the Italian pasta maker Barilla. Fellini, who made his TV debut with an ad for Campari, denies he is pushing pasta. But Il Mondo called his denial reminiscent of the secrecy that preceded the first ad. ...
Italian Magazine: OUT THERE/Milan
The Sons of Hercules Again Flex Their Muscles
FIT FOR FUN is an Italian magazine about bodies and keeping them in shape, though a glance at the July cover suggests it isn't likely to get bogged down in facts about basal metabolic rates. Over a cover line that promises "Belli in Sette Giorni!" -- Beautiful in Seven Days! -- stand a man and woman, entwined and waist-high in water, who do not appear to be thinking about Cybex machines. One imagines that the couple is on vacation and that their luggage fell...
