The "Squadra Diaspora", a selection to keep Italian memory alive

The year is 1971. Serge Reggiani performs one of his most brilliant songs, L'Italien, in which he pronounces: "I come back a little late I know, 18 years late it's true. But I found my matches on a street in Massachusetts. It is tiring to travel, for a child of my age. Travel, the construction of identities, Paolo Del Vecchio has made it his favorite themes to draw the maglia (the jersey, editor's note) of the Squadra Diaspora (literally "the diaspora team"). This 32-year-old artist-designer designed 500 tunics for his project, all made of France, in the Azzurro color and pattern taking the form of a more or less dense wave depending on the Italian presence in each country.

The same wave represents a feeling of uprooting doomed to "disappear with time", turning "into history, memory, as each family integrates into the host country." Because...

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