Photography courtesy of Global Lighting

+ Exposé SCRIVIMI By Global Lighting

WHERE DID YOU GROW UP? ASIDE FROM SUGAR AND SPICE, AND EVERYTHING TURN-OFF? In Fossombrone, an ancient little hamlet in the NICE, WHAT ELSE ARE YOU MADE OF? If you insist, I can be. But you will miss my Marche region of Italy. Many centuries ago, Earth and devotion. You see, I am a ceramic ethereal glow. my ancestors were built in the Byzantine and light—organic and natural. And I’m Italian, so love Renaissance epochs. is in my DNA. I was born of the urge to express WHO’S YOUR CURRENT BESTIE? desire. In Italian, Scrivimi means “write to me.” Casanova. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST BIG BREAK? When designer Matteo Ugolini fell madly in IF YOU COULD GET ONE PLASTIC SURGERY WHO ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW? love. He wanted to express the perfect phrase PROCEDURE WHAT WOULD IT BE? Couture Valentino, of course, and a handcrafted of enchantment to seduce the woman of his I have no imperfections. Would you suggest Borsalino on my head. dreams. It took him hours, and hundreds of surgery to Marcello Mastroianni? Franco Nero? scraps of paper, until he found the right words. Giancarlo Giannini? No, I thought not. In the WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STARRING ROLE? finest Italian tradition of sprezzatura, my beauty I’ve been offered many leading roles from movie WHAT’S THE RUMOR MILL CHURNING OUT ABOUT is effortless and eternal. directors and hoteliers, to chefs and restaurateurs. YOU THESE DAYS? You’ll have to speak with my agent Larry Lazin at Designer Matteo There’s talk of a starring role in the next Paolo WHO ARE SOME OF YOUR IDOLS AND INFLUENCERS? Global Lighting. Ugolini Sorrentino film, something about unrequited love. Petrarch and Dante. And of course, my very own Beatrice. WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK WITH NEXT? WHERE WAS THE LAST PLACE THE A designer who is not afraid to wear their heart PAPARAZZI PHOTOGRAPHED YOU? WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DESIGN GENRE? on their sleeve. I was in Venice, enjoying a spritz Intimacy. on the Grand Canal during a film WHAT’S THE WORST PART ABOUT FAME? festival. I tried going incognito, but WHAT’S YOUR BIGGEST TURN-ON? People are always looking up to me. was discovered anyway. I think my Poetic longing in low LED light, simmering enchanting, illuminated profile gave with medieval secrecy and burning with me away. desire…

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