Aspesi

Natalia Aspesi (1929). Journalist and writer. She was born in Milan, and still lives and works there. A columnist for the newspaper La Repubblica, she has followed fashion for years, with a sharp and ironic pen, and paying special attention to costume. Typical of her style was a 1998 article about Naomi Campbell‘s bottom, and also her book Il lusso & l’anarchia (Rizzoli, 1982), an extraordinary piece of research and a fascinating narrative about fashion during the Fascist regime. Before devoting herself to journalism, she worked as a babysitter in Switzerland and England, as a salesman of machinery for creameries, and as a designer of ties. She worked on the evening daily La Notte, was hired as a reporter for Il Giorno in the early 1960’s, and has worked at La Repubblica as a special correspondent since its first issue. She wrote La donna immobile (Fabbri Editore, 1976), Lui! Visto da lei (1978), Il trionfo del privato and Vivere in tre (1981).