Tommaso Spadolini celebrates four decades as a pre-eminent Italian yacht designer. Tommaso Spadolini began his career in the design office of his father, famous yacht architect Pierluigi Spadolini. Alongside his father, he designed a line of yachts for Cantieri di Pisa. In the early 1980s, Spadolini created his first independent designs for Barberis and started …
The beautiful game’s beautiful man, legendary Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, has cemented his legacy. At the height of his career, Ronaldo has achieved famed one-name status and has no desire to slow down. files from Richard Aldhous In the history of modern world sport, there have been very few “one-name” stars. It’s rarefied air to …
From go-kart to race car, Nicholas Latifi’s metoric rise in motorsports comes from a life- long desire to be first place. Interview By Sarah Kanbar If life can sometimes feel like it’s going by in a flash, imagine what it must look like from the perspective of race-car driver Nicholas Latifi of Toronto, zipping down …
One of the best Lamborghini salespeople in all of North America, Heather Ballentine is redefining the gender dynamics of the automotive industry. If you enter the workforce making $13 per hour and, years later, become a successful entrepreneur in the top one per cent of the salesforce for Lamborghini sports cars in North America, you …
Sabrina Barnett is a modern-day Wonder Woman. As a top model for more than 25 years, her face appeared regularly in magazines like Elle, Glamour and Sports Illustrated. She produced an album, Come as You Are, and still likes recording songs today. She loves horses and polo and has put together her own polo team. …
On his journey from bullied outsider to thwarted pro athlete to the eternal optimist behind The School of Greatness podcast, Lewis Howes uncovered an uncanny recipe for success. The best-selling author and entrepreneur learned to treat life like a favourite sport filled with coaches that could train him. Howes welcomed Dolce Magazine to Los Angeles …
The award-winning Canadian journalist Lisa LaFlamme reflects on her career as a broadcast journalist and talks to Dolce Magazine about her path to success, international reporting and the evolution of the medium. Oftentimes, the early foundation of one’s life forms the path forward. You need look no further for evidence of this than Lisa LaFlamme, …
As she celebrates her fifth year at the helm of Canada’s Design Exchange, Shauna Levy looks back on the progress she’s made as a champion for authentic design, the lifeblood of creativity — and is making larger-than-life plans to continue her mission of using design to better the planet. When Shauna Levy was 25, she …
Hilary Weston Founder, The Hilary M. Weston Foundation for Youth and Former 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. When it comes to expression — the transmittance of ideas, emotions and dreams — few mediums are as universally beloved and all-pervasive as the ever-expanding field of art. More than any other industry, art has become something to …
Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada. Sometimes it’s hard to remember just how serious the financial crisis that hit the world in the fall of 2008 really was. Entire industries, such as the automotive sector, were under serious threat of failing altogether. Another industry that faced a life-and-death struggle was the airline industry, …
