Apart from designing shoes... I'm interested in Politics, Football, Movies, Music, Television, Fashion, like any other Italian. I like to travel, I have a job, a family, a car, a motorbike, I go to the supermarket, I go to the seaside, I read newspapers, I read (few) books.
My Family
Most Loved Place
My First Car: A Fiat 500
Holidays in Greece
I'd like to meet:
Girls who like shopping for shoes. Guys who like to see girls wearing stilettos. Guys who buy shoes for their wives/girlfriends. Guys who like to wear stilettos (I don't do it, though). People who like my designs or also who hate them. People who like Italian shoes. People who like the Italian Football Team. People who like Italy and the Italian, or at least who don't hate them.
Featured Video: Made For Walking
Music:
Mr. Stylettos features a selection of classic, romantic,
Great Italian Songs
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Not all of them I really like, nor I only like italian music, but each of these songs reminds something to each and all of us.
They build up a soundtrack that spans over half a century, and can be more significant than the National Anthem.
Check back often because they will change soon...
Se Telefonando
(If Telephoning) Mina 1966
Music by Ennio Morricone
Lyrics by Ghigo De Chiara
and Maurizio Costanzo
The astonishment of the night
opened wide on the sea
surprised us that we were
disowned me and you.
Then, in the dark your hands
suddenly on mine
Grew too much in a hurry
this love of ours…
If telephoning
I could say goodbye
I would call you…
If seeing you again
I was sure you don't suffer
I would see you again…
If watching you in the eyes
I could tell you it's over
I would watch you…
But I can't explain to you
that our hardly born love
is already over…
If telephoning
I could say goodbye
I would call you…
If seeing you again
I was sure you don't suffer
I would see you again…
If watching you in the eyes
I could tell you it's over
I would watch you…
But I can't explain to you
that our hardly born love
is already over…
Più Bella Cosa
(No Such Beautiful Thing)
by Eros Ramazzotti 1996
How it started I don't know
the endless story with you
who became my "she"
of a whole life for me
One needs passion with you
and a little bit of madness
one needs thought so
I work with my fantasy
Remember that time
I sang for you
it was a thrill right away
I'll tell you a thing
if you don't know
for me it feels still the same
One needs passion with you
it should never lack
one needs skill because
I work with heart you know
Singing about love
is never enough
nor it will be more useful
to tell you again
to tell you that
there's no such beautiful thing
no such beautiful thing
like you
only as you are
immense when you want
Thank you for existing
Why is not fading
with my years
the endless desire for you
what's this mistery
you still are
that I bring here inside of me
Maybe the moments I have
those moments you give me
maybe they are words but
I work with voice you know
Singing about love
is never enough
nor it will be more useful
to tell you again
to tell you that
there's no such beautiful thing
no such beautiful thing
like you
only as you are
immense when you want
Thank you for existing
There's no such beautiful thing
no such beautiful thing
like you
only as you are
immense when you want
Thank you for existing...
Movies:
Once I used to go to the movies twice a day, but it was long ago. Science Fiction was first love, I know them all from The Thing, War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Forbidden Planet to Star Wars, passing by Farenheit 451, Planet of The Apes, Close Encounters, Alien, Blade Runner, Brazil, Terminator, Back To The Future and Men In Black, but also The Incredible Shrinking Man, Children Of The Damned, Charly and Time After Time.
But first of all I have to mention 2001, A Space Odissey and all Stanley Kubrick's masterpieces, from Killer's Kiss to Eyes Wide Shut.
I prefer the darkest side: Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Turneur, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Russ Meyer, Ed Wood, Abel Ferrara, Michael Mann, Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Jonze and Tim Burton.
But I like also: David W. Griffith, John Ford, William Wyler, Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, David Lean, Zoltà n Korda, Michael Curtiz, Robert Wise, Raoul Walsh, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, Sidney Pollack, Peter Bogdanovich, John Cassavetes, Robert Aldrich, Alan J. Pakula, Alan Parker, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Lawrence Kasdan, Oliver Stone, David Mamet, Peter Weir and Steven Soderbergh.
I like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis and Disney-Pixar but also Jane Campion, Stephen Frears, Spike Lee, Edgar Reizt, Abbas Kiarostami, Yilmaz Güney, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodóvar, Agneska Holland, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Theo Angelopoulos.
Then also Renè Clair, Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati, Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, but also Jaco Van Dormael, Ken Loach and Reiner Werner Fassbinder.
And what about Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, George Cukor, Blake Edwards, Mike Nichols, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, John Landis, Terry Gilliam, Harold Ramis, Mike Newell, Rob Reiner, Coen Bros, Farrelly Bros, Marx Bros and also Warner Bros, I mean, Looney Tunes...
But I can't forget my home country, Totò, Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo, Alberto Sordi, Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Franca Valeri, Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Sofia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Sylva Koscina, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudia Cardinale, Virna Lisi, Giovanna Ralli, Walter Chiari, Ugo Tognazzi, Raimondo Vianello, Lando Buzzanca, Alvaro Vitali, Renato Pozzetto, Carlo Verdone, Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi, Lino Banfi, Massimo Boldi and Diego Abatantuono.
But also Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Marco Ferreri, Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Pupi Avati, Nanni Moretti, Giuseppe Tornatore, Gabriele Salvatores, Silvio Soldini, Gianni Amelio, Marco Tullio Giordana, Marco Risi, Paolo Virzì and Gabriele Muccino.
All the great Italian comedies by Mario Camerini, Alessandro Blasetti, Mario Mattoli, Luigi Zampa, Pietro Germi, Steno, Age-Scarpelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy, Alberto Lattuada, Lina Wertmüller, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli and Ettore Scola... C'Eravamo Tanto Amati (We All Loved Each Other So Much) is probably my all-time most loved movie and I think it should be taught in Italian schools!
Television:
What to say about television? Odi et amo, I hate it and I love it, since it's what I make a living from.
You might know that TV in Italy is considered very important and is one of the main topics in Politics, on the press and also in everyday conversations, almost as much as food and football.
Anyway, in spite of spreading reality shows, the average level of Italian TV (and Radio) information and entertainment is still quite good.
Books:
I said I don't read much, too busy designing shoes...
Nevertheless I studied Philosophy, as well as Latin and Ancient Greek, and when I was young I'd better read essays more than novels.
I know Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Max Weber and Friedrich Nietzsche, but also Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno and Umberto Eco.
When I was a kid I read Emilio Salgari, Jules Verne and Jack London, then Robert Louis Stevenson, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and Edgar Allan Poe. Then passed by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, arriving to Patricia Highsmith, James Ellroy and Andrea Camilleri.
I've read Wolfgang Goethe, Fëdor Dostoevskij, Lev Tolstoj, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse, James Joyce, Joseph Roth, Arthur Schnizler, Italo Svevo, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Milan Kundera, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Marguerite Yourcenar.
But also Charles Bukowski, Ian McEwan, David Lodge, Nick Hornby, Mordecai Richler, Abraham Yehoshua, Raymond Carver and Michel Houellebecq...
Ok, I also read Ken Follet, Scott Turow, Patricia Cornwell, and comics by Moebius, Milo Manara and Hugo Pratt...
Anyway, a list of what I wish I have read would be much longer...
Heroes:
C'è solo un Capitano!
Italy Football Team
4 Times World Champions!
The Real Heroes:
Giovanni Falcone
Paolo Borsellino
