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Marta Marzotto's boots on Maurizio Costanzo's Bontà Loro, February 1977. by @sirottons

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On June 27, 1969 LIFE Magazine hit the newsstands with an issue as moving as controversial, remaining to these days one of the most powerful editorial choices in the history of journalism. Picture after picture, name after name, 242 people over a 10-page feature showed, straight to the faces of Americans back home, your average ‘one week toll’ over in Vietnam.

Sparking silent commotion and conformist outrage in equal measure, the issue became an instant symbol of the anti-Vietnam war movement. See it, re-adapted as a banner, just a few months later, at the Velvet Underground gig at the Dallas Peace Moratorium, on October 15, 1969.

Captured on both 8mm and 16mm film, the elusive pieces of footage resurfaced in 2019 at the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection at SMU in Dallas and were respectively shot by amateur local John Tincher and by Stoney Burns, the editor of the underground newspaper, Dallas Notes.

PS: Maureen Tucker wears a New York Jets sweatshirt.

PPS: Thanks to dear friend @pearz for bringing the issue all the way over from LA some time ago. by @sirottons

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It was fifty years ago today Gigi Radice taught the band to play.

On 16 May 1976, Torino FC won their seventh Serie A title, twenty-seven years from their last and the Superga air disaster – when fate started interfering with Torino's destiny. It was a title that redeemed an entire population, that sent the working class to heaven in the city of FIAT and the Agnelli dynasty.

An afternoon when football merged with mysticism, from the pitch to the following day's march towards Basilica of Superga – where Grande Torino rests. It was all about barbera against the Avvocato’s champagne, flowing deep red like the 'granata' shirts soaked in May sweat. Many wept. Renato Zaccarelli, the midfield count of that side, still does to this day.
Someone even confessed to having overcome their fear of death at the sight of the Scudetto once more upon where it belonged, on the shirt worn by the Grande Torino.

After all, Toro is a matter of style but above all of blind faith. It's not a choice, but a family affair.

That afternoon my grandfather Gianfranco locked himself away in the cellar, no radio in sight, only to be released at the final whistle. Perhaps he wept as well. I do not know, however, how my other grandfather Luciano spent that day. The wine certainly flowed freely, he didn't just enjoy drinking it: he sold it. Yet the photographs remain, like the one with Paolo 'Puliciclone' Pulici, number 11 on his back and hero of that Scudetto.

On Tuttosport, Giampaolo Ormezzano titled "Toro Lassù qualcuno ti ama" – Up there someone loves you. Casino Royale quoted it years after on their seminal CRX album.

I have written about it for @Ilfoglio, on newsstands this weekend.

'Sopra il petto dei granata il tricolore risplenderà' by @sirottons

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In summer we dream of Paris, in springtime of Magistretti and Carimate. by @sirottons

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#feelings by @sirottons

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𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫 @gqitalia
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©️𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙨 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙞𝙭 taken in Paris, France by @sirottons

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40 cadetti e poche ciliegie

New favourite book, Paolo di Paolo's photoessay of Italian cadets (1970) from the Modena Military Academy issued as a supplement to Notiziario Esercito N.5 by @sirottons

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