Trip Report Vol 7. “Bella Milano”

MILANO! My old stomping ground. She Hannibal made it over the Alps, and with a huge temperature rise and sticky moisture in the air, we hit the streets!

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Our first appointment was with the Milano office for a lovely apperativo at Rita’s- our favourite bar. Then a rendezvous with two lovely ladies and a party to plan for the following.
We have many friends in Milano. Because of the huge population of designers coupled with the fashion capital’s contingency we were interested to see who would turn up to meet us.
In the same way as all of our gatherings, it was organized in a spontaneous and freestyle way, yet we got to party at a spectacular location on the Naviglio Grande: Parked outside Mag Café, next to the canal and right in the middle of the pedestrian area, we guaranted as many passing people as possible could check out the She Hannibal.

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Our Dj Mon C (Tutto Fatto) arrived and so did the people. We had many international visitors; a huge part being designers who had seen the magazine in the Milan Design Library or fashion industry professionals keen to check out our shoots and fashion reports. We were also very happy to see our good mates from RetroSuperFuture and PIG Magazine come along to see the magazine and share a cocktail. At one point the Z-machine was brought out and some freestyle action followed. Unfortunately though, myself and Greg Catch had too many drinks that night and managed to lose at-least one limited edition Eley Kishimoto Wham-o disc into the canal.

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It was a great night and the party went on until much later than expected. We had great feedback and made many new friends that evening. We stumbled home with a couple of lovely ladies and planned our next adventure where Greg and myself would part for a few days. Greg would be off to the Italian West Coast in She Hannibal with Leila, while I was travelling up North to Lake Orta with the spectacular Charlotte from Pearl Model Management for the wedding of our brilliant art director Massimo Cassini and his lovely, lovely fiancé Claire Northcott.

All in all we believe Milan certainly is a freestyle city in its own special way.

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