December 2018, Year X, n. 12
Anna Di Costa
The fairy lady
Telos: From a teacher to an entrepreneur. Can you tell us your story?
Anna Di Costa: I chose to leave my job as a tenured teacher in the state school system and set off on a new career path, full of unknowns, mainly because in my heart I felt like that was the right thing to do. When my father passed away, I decided that I also needed to do my part in helping to further my family’s small artisan business. I never looked back, not even for an instant, to reflect on the professional and economic stability I was leaving behind. I looked straight ahead, towards the future, at conquering a new work experience that may have seemed uncertain ...more
Editorial
Why are we calling her the Fairy Lady? Because it was actually Anna Di Costa, interviewed for the December issue of PRIMOPIANOSCALAc, who came up with the idea, thanks to her exquisite taste, for the Marie Ange collection, decorated with graceful fairies, as Anna calls them, with light, transparent wings. We couldn’t have chosen a better story for the last issue of the year: a beautiful story without even the slightest trace of naïve optimism. Our story is set in Sicily, the island of many faces, of the starkest and at times even the most jarring contrasts: contradictions in the landscape, contradictions in the character of the Sicilian people as well as historical, economic and social contradictions ...more
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