The book presentation will take place in Luino on September 29th.
“I suggest to the new generations to continue to focus on their dreams, to cultivate them, to think that everything is possible, that each goal can be achieved. Always.” Chiara Boni
Palazzo Verbania in Luino on the Italian Lake Maggiore hosts Chiara Boni at the end of September: an enchanted place where the mantle of water changes color from hour to hour, an iridescent mirror of the natural nuances that surround it. The people of this territory traveled so much and, at the meantime, hosted people from all over the world: in fact, the city, so near to the Swiss land, considered one sister, represents the “grille d’honneur” towards Europe, with all the facts that depend on it.
An audience attentive and involved is looking forward to meet Chiara Boni, recently awarded of the Cavalierato del Lavoro, on Sunday 29th September 2024 at 5.00 p.m. (free admission). In the refined Art Nouveau building that houses the territorial Genius Loci, Chiara will lead us by the hand into her universe: her feminine essence is characterized by a great eclectic force that becomes exemplary, a unique energy that has managed and manages to create her mosaic tile by tile with a palette of spectacular nuances. The occasion will be important to discover “Io che nasco immaginaria. Autobiography” published by Baldini and Castoldi, a piece of writing that can be read in one breath: Chiara’s pure and brilliant soul manages to make us take an inspiring journey into a creative and exciting world that she describes with an incredible élan vital.
In the narration, the brilliant mind that exalted beauty is evident, precious places are visited, Souls who, like her, have written world history are encountered. From the very first pages, in fact, her memories, as precious as Marcel Proust’s petites madeleinettes that from a flavor unleash mémoires d’antan, push us into that unique and refined world of creative art that represents Parisian couturiers such as Count Hubert James Marcel Tuffin de Givenchy to whom she went with her mother.
The description of the emotions and intuitions experienced projects us into a universe studded with Souls who, thanks to their interactions, have created the great novel of our contemporary history, from Vittorio Sgarbi to Marta Marzotto and Lina Sotis, from Cesare Romiti to Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo, from Valentino to Mila Schön and others. Thanks to her tenacity and brilliant spirit she actively participated in the period when Milan reigned with the biggest names in fashion, she traced her style in America from which Le Sempiterne The Everlasting People had his contact thanks to Brigitte Segura of the Fashion Daily Mag in New York.
Chiara Boni loves the universe of human beings so much that she enhances their forms, whatever they may be, with a passionate heart, a symbol that characterizes her, loving just like the chubby angels of Elio Fiorucci, a creative genius she met in her professional career.
The event in Palazzo Verbania, in addition to the Sempiterne, The Everlasting People, is organized by the City of Luino, Lions Club Luino, Rotary Club Luino Laveno Alto Verbano, Soroptimist International, Gli Stati Generali delle Donne, Grand Luino, Bentley, Dahra, Mondadori Store Luino.
On Sunday the 29th of September it will also be an opportunity for the new generations to understand an exemplary life. Chiara, in fact, is a woman of light who describes her youth as a period in which they were all “beautiful, young, a little crazy but not bad”, who declares herself “semi-teetotaler and viscerally opposed to drugs”. The good entrepreneur, in fact, advises girls and boys to continue to believe in their dreams, to cultivate them, to think that everything is possible, that, if you want, you can do it. All the time.
The cinematographic transposition of this book would give further strength to its message. I dreamed with Chiara’s compelling narration, I rejoiced and cried with her; I hope that her autobiography can be transformed into a plot for the big and small screen: her portrait created by a good director could capture all the inner parts of this charismatic and brilliant woman. And Chiara would love it.
Simona Fontana
