The Local Italy https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An Italian teen model made toilet paper out of social media abuse Nineteen-year-old Italian fashion blogger Chiara Nasti has come up with a creative way to show 'haters' what she thinks of their comments. https://www.thelocal.it/20170316/this-italian-model-turned-haters-comments-into-toilet-paper Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:55:55 +0100 this-italian-model-turned-haters-comments-into-toilet-paper Benetton pays up over Bangladesh tragedy Italian fashion retailer Benetton has agreed to pay into an international compensation fund for victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in which 1,138 people died. https://www.thelocal.it/20150220/benetton-pays-up-over-bangladesh-factory-tragedy Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:50:00 +0100 benetton-pays-up-over-bangladesh-factory-tragedy Hunky models dump ice bucket on Donatella When fashion queen Donatello Versace embraced the Ice Bucket Challenge, she probably didn't expect the male models tasked with dousing her to actually have minds of their own. https://www.thelocal.it/20140828/video-donatella-versaces-weird-ice-bucket-challenge Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:14:00 +0200 video-donatella-versaces-weird-ice-bucket-challenge