ARTICLES BY SERENA PEZZATO
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 HOCK TALK
Located in the heart of Le Marais, the poshest gay area in all of France, Crédit Municipal is the closet thing to a Parisian pawnshop you can find. It’s run by the city because private pawnbrokering is illegal. You’re not allowed to interview or take photographs of its employees, but we snuck in with the ruse of pawning a watch given to us by a Jewish uncle from the States. After an hour of waiting for our...
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  SEX SMELLS
We Doused a Nerd in Pheromones to See What Would HappenEarlier this month we ordered up some Phiero pheromone cologne to see what all the fuss was about. This stuff is supposed to make a man more irresistible to women than LL Cool J after bathing in a pool of Spanish fly, beaver musk, and balm of Gilead. It arrived last week, and boy does it reek. Opening the box was like lifting up a mattress that had a Japanese rentboy’s corpse underneath it. We were fairly confident its supposed...
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 A BRAZILIAN IN... MILAN & NEW ZEALAND
Caroline Miwa Nemoto
Vice: Why Italy, Brazilian lady?
Caroline: I came to study fashion design. In São Paulo I took a course in styling while I worked on a social project at the university. After a while I’d had enough and decided to move here...
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 THE CURIOUS CASE OF GRANDPA BUTTON
Franco Jacassi Is the World's Button Collector Numero UnoFor all I know, "fashion" means trying to sort out a decent look out of two H&M rags and a couple of things I stole from my mom, which is perhaps part of the reason why I got the willies as soon as I did some preliminary research on Franco Jacassi. Having assumed that Signor Jacassi, aka Mister Butt...
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 THE BEST DICK IN ITALY
Bill Garganzola (not his real name) runs a private investigation firm in Milan, the cheating-on-your-spouse capital of the world (most likely). The way we see it, being an Italian PI is basically like being a chocolate inspector in the land of chocolate, or a coffin inspector in the land of Zimbabwe...
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 A MEXICAN IN... MILAN
Chantal Garduno Israde
Vice: Why did you decide to move to Italy?
Chantal: Actually, I had already lived in Italy as a child, from when I was three to six years old. My parents are both geologists. We had to run away from Mexico....
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 SCANDINAVIAN UP-AND-COMERS
Three Good Clothes Makers From Up NorthHAMPUS BERNHOFF
Bankers, Boot Camp and Bodies for Sin
Vice: You have a degree in Economics, how did you go from banker to...
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