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In 1979, Milan’s fashion week overtook Paris, in terms of both pure profit and volume of business. It was the dawn of a golden age for the northern Italian city. Soon after, it would all blow up in an orgy of parties, runways, sex, magazines, photographers, supermodels, and repulsive Roman decadence. Then, a decade later, it would all be over.

We recently talked about Milan’s 80s heyday over high tea with Renata Molho, who spent the better part of that decade as a stylist for everyone who was anyone, and the 90s as one of the best fashion journalists in Italy. Today, Renata is the fashion editor of the Sole 24 Ore (the Italian Financial Times), and she writes for Vogue Italia and other magazines in the Condé Nast group. She is also the author of the only biography ever published on the unrivaled king of that golden age, Giorgio Armani. Not only is Renata, expectedly, one of the most sophisticated and elegant people we’ve ever met, somewhat unexpectedly, she’s also incredibly direct and straightforward.


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She was born in Pesaro on the 1st of February, 1922, and studied piano at the Conservatory of Parma and afterwards lyric with Maestro Campgalliani.  At the  “Gioacchino Rossini” high school at Pesaro she studied singing with the famous soprano Carmen Melis.
She made her debut as Elena in Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito in Rovigo in 1944   She took part in the re-opening concert of the Scala of Milan, directed by Arturo Toscanini, singing the Prayer from Moses in Egypt by Rossini and in the “Te Deum” by Giuseppe Verdi.  On this very occasion Arturo Toscanini defined her voice as the “voice of an angel”.
Renata Tebaldi possessed a prodigiously beautiful, velvety instrument,  that of an authentic,  lyrical soprano,  governed by a technique which permitted her to pass homogeneously from register to register, to have an exemplary legato and spectacular emission (“messe di voce”) able to go from incredibly high pianissimo notes to rivers of sound.  An extremely gifted performer  with a  prestigious stage presence,  a lyrical temperament and a tendency towards sentimental abandonment rather

Renata Bianchi

Birth: 16 October 1906
Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Death: 4 October 2019
Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Age: 112 years, 353 days
Country: ITA
Validated

​Renata Bianchi-Pirini​ (16 October 1906 – 4 October 2019) was an Italian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of her death, she was the second-oldest living person in Emilia-Romagna and Italy, after Anna Benericetti.

Biography

Renata Bianchi was born in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy on 16 October 1906. In 1930, she married Umberto Pirini, who died in 1965. They had three children, two of whom died in infancy. She also had 18 nephews, from her ten brothers, who occasionally visited her.

In her later life, Bianchi lived alone in her own home in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was visited every morning by social workers, who carried out household chores and did her shopping. She was also forced to have an operation to remove a tumour in her centenarian years.

Bianchi celebrated her 112th birthday on 16 Octob

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