Mother, wife, and freelance journalist. Valeria Abate was born in Genoa in 1984 and, thirty years later, chose Novara for a dream of love. Sporty and precise, she started writing at primary school and has never stopped. She alternates bedtime reading with her greatest passion: Greek mythology. She is a bit old-fashioned when, always on the ball, she insists on taking notes on her paper notebook with a fountain pen and is in a hurry, riding her vintage Bianchi, hunting for the news. She writes articles on news, sport and culture and has tried her hand at short stories, aphorisms, and a light comic vein in describing a ‘loser’ aspect of her life. Her days are the perfect fit between a child in kindergarten, a dentist husband, and notes in her diary. She cooks without poisoning anyone, does sport, and occasionally sleeps.
Gilda Faleri is an Italian journalist and royal watcher. Since she was young, she has had a great passion for royal families, particularly for Queen Elizabeth II and the Windsors. She holds a degree in public relations and advertising, with a double specialization in communication for international relations and fashion journalism. In 2019, she founded the website www.royalpopmagazine.com, a natural development and deepening of one of the first blogs about royal families, Gilda and the Royals, which was very active from 2011 to 2015. In Royal Pop Magazine, she combines her passion for royal lifestyle and history with an innate inclination for fashion and style. She also has a jewelry brand inspired by the world of royalty, Royal Pop Jewels.
Nineteen years old and a passion for show business. After the Academy of Musicals at the Sistina Theatre, he continued acting, singing, and dubbing. He has taken part in several shows, including ‘Evita’ with Malika Ayane and ‘È Cosa buona e giusta’ with Michele La Ginestra. During his thefirst lockdown, he became involved in the world of wine and graduated WSET2. While waiting to take the exam for WSET3, he is enrolled in the second year of Oenology in Florence. He has participated in the production of several wine guides and currently writes on the Wining.it portal, editing a column dedicated to young people.
A repentant computer scientist, he has made communication his core business. A software developer, Systems engineer and Web Designer with hundreds of websites and many thematic portals created, before the advent of Web 2.0, he turned his attention to content. In the late 1990s, he took part in cooperation projects for the implementation of the network infrastructure at the Senegalese Radio Television in Dakar. A certified pilot of SAPR systems with which he makes videos, he puts his nose into theatre by organising the Independent Musical Festival with MINDIE, and collaborates with Moolmore in the film industry. An AIS sommelier, he is the editor of Wining.it and a member of international juries in the wine sector. He boasts a dozen scientific publications on the environment and, while he played water polo in Serie A for almost twenty years, he now relaxes on golf courses. He speaks English, but mostly Spanish, is an enthusiast by nature, and – he says – TheUnique came at just the right time to spice up his days.
Nineteen (and a half), bilingual Italian-English since the cradle, she made her journalistic debut at just thirteen by interviewing Heinz Beck for OM, the distinguished international magazine devoted to modern and vintage horology founded and edited by her aunt Francesca. Currently reading for a degree in Political Science and International Relations, the former art-lyceum girl went on to found and now presides over Chanc(g)e, the association dedicated to championing and amplifying the creativity of the younger generation. Mad about music, painting and travel, she adores reading yet loves writing even more, quietly penning her first novel between lectures on law and economics.
Born in Rome in 1968, he is the first registered pizza journalist/writer. A Greek passport holder, he graduated in sociology with an experimental thesis on the history of international relations entitled: ‘How does one become a Macedonian?” In his latest book, Eroi Bestiali (Bestial Heroes), published by Rossini, he reviewed all the animals of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He has edited several investigations – from transport to waste – broadcast live on radio. After an experience in some professional kitchens in the capital, he returned to journalism not disdaining, occasionally, natural leavening.
She wanted to work in financial communication, but found herself catapulted between fashion, TV, football and luxury goods. She made her professional debut in New York, worked in Paris, London, Geneva, Miami, and Los Angeles and was the executive producer of ‘La grande storia della Juve dal 1897 al 1997’, published by ‘La Stampa’. She has a daughter, Ludovica, two dogs and two master’s degrees. She speaks four languages, has written two books and loves reading, playing the piano and playing tennis. In 2009 she launched a course on Made in Italy at the University of Minnesota that led her to write the book ‘Passione I.T.A.L.I.A.’ published by Mondadori (2011) with a preface by Santo Versace. She has a predilection for everything that starts and everything she has not yet done. On her wish list is learning to dance the tango and launching ‘Madame F.’, the clothing line she has started to design.
He wanted to become a dancer, but this fervent and unfortunately unrequited passion had to give way to the desire to draw with light. The incomparable pleasure of daring relegated him (!) to New York, where he lived for several years and where he began to express his creativity. After America, the secular revelation on the road to Japan, where his photography becomes adult, intimately linked to the complicated art of subtraction. He has the passion, vanity, and pride to consider himself a Bordeaux garageman on loan to photographic inspiration. A tireless traveller waiting for those moments that fate randomly throws on the threshold of his little world of fantasies, instincts, and visions. In June 2009, he started a storytelling project on umbertostefanelli.com that is still ongoing.
After Classical High School, she graduated at the age of 22 from ‘Federico II’ in Naples. She teaches literature, looks at the world with the eyes of a dreamer and believes in the values of Family and Friendship. Her great passions are good food (she is an excellent cook), music (she is a very good singer), reading, writing (but she doesn’t say so because she is modest and doesn’t want anyone to read her writings) and… pizza! Proudly Italian and Campanian.