Comotose

August 11, 2017 Coco Zaza

Lake Como is about an hour-and-a-half car ride from Milano centrale, which is just a hopscotch away to enter into an entirely new culture. Here are a few more photo highlights from Villa del Balbianello, one of my all time favorite villas. Naturally it's filled with tourists and has made its debut through films like James Bond and Starwars, but it still holds a special place in my heart from the first time I visited with my family in 2005. By no means do these shots do this villa any justice (actually on second thought, they are pretty spectacular thanks to my amazing photographer Sarah), but at least you can get a glimpse of the dreamy world that I got to live for a few days...

Bellagio

July 31, 2017 Coco Zaza

In today's world, style is not just about how we dress. It's become a way of life and how we live, where we live, which restaurants we eat at, which festivals we go to, where we go on holiday, which hotels we stay at on our trips, and how we photograph, capture, and share those moments with the world. It's all become quite an interesting way of life to me. What do you share with others and what do you keep private for yourself? Are you missing out on key milestones in your friends lives if you aren't on Facebook and Instagram? How many friends are too many friends? Where do you draw the line?...

Checking-In from Lake Como

July 25, 2017 Coco Zaza

Just checking-in with another post from Lake Como, where we have spent a few days exploring villas, hopping around the lake on beautiful wooden boats, and have eaten our way through the best that Northern Italy has to offer. Sarah and I have been having some detox lunches at some of the hotel restaurants that we've been exploring, which are something along the lines of a frothy salad with green beans & fresh herbs, a side of steamed vegetables, and a light linguine clam pasta...

Post-Office Girl

July 25, 2017 Coco Zaza

I read Stefan Zweig's stories throughout Italy. I purchased one of his novels in Milano and carried it with me through five Italian cities. Post-Office Girl is beautifully written, sad, and spectacular. On my nightstand in Brooklyn is also Zweig's masterpiece, The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past. You know, Stefan Zweig is actually much more modern and clever than what you generally read today...

My 24-Hour Italian Daydream

September 29, 2014 Coco Zaza

I feel in love with Italy when I first visited with my parents several years ago and it was the place that I found protection from a tangled web that I found myself in during business one and business two. My love for Italy has been an ongoing romance ever since I first stepped foot across their borders and in some way or another, it feels like a second home...