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Chiara Ferragni's Secret to Winning on Social Media The Pomellato for Women ambassador preaches a very millennial message of self-empowerment. BY ALISON S. COHN AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY: TYLER JOE; FASHION EDITOR: CASSIE ANDERSON APR 18, 2019 A vision in fluttery pink Dior, Chiara Ferragni wafts through Milan’s glass-domed Galeria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade like a character in a Fellini film. Today Ferragni is shooting for Bazaar, and she’s all smiles for the camera. Teenagers in velvet puffer coats swarm around Italy’s most famous influencer like moths to a social media flame, reflexively extending their arms into the universal selfie pose. “Chiara! Chiara!” they scream, as they frantically adjust their positioning to catch her in the background of their photos. “I think we got it,” Ferragni says to our camera crew, turning decisively on her heel as two burly security guards swoop in to escort her through a secret passageway to escape the verklempt fans slowly closing in on her.

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Chiara Ferragni's Secret to Winning on Social Media

The Pomellato for Women ambassador preaches a very millennial message of self-empowerment. BY ALISON S. COHN AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY: TYLER JOE; FASHION EDITOR: CASSIE ANDERSON APR 18, 2019

A vision in fluttery pink Dior, Chiara Ferragni wafts through Milan’s glass-domed Galeria Vittorio

Emanuele II shopping arcade like a character in a Fellini film. Today Ferragni is shooting for Bazaar, and

she’s all smiles for the camera. Teenagers in velvet puffer coats swarm around Italy’s most famous

influencer like moths to a social media flame, reflexively extending their arms into the universal selfie pose.

“Chiara! Chiara!” they scream, as they frantically adjust their positioning to catch her in the background of

their photos. “I think we got it,” Ferragni says to our camera crew, turning decisively on her heel as two

burly security guards swoop in to escort her through a secret passageway to escape the verklempt fans slowly

closing in on her.

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Graciously enduring mass hysteria is all in a day’s work for the OG of fashion bloggers, who is accustomed

to sharing every minute of her glam-packed life with more than 16 million Instagram followers (to put her

reach in perspective, Man Repeller has a following of 2.1 million, and Bryanboy is just shy of 700,000). In

September, she’s poised to become even more of a household name when Italian director Elisa Amoruso’s

documentary about her hits theaters. The film charts the meteoric rise of this dentist’s daughter from the

bedroom community of Cremona, Italy, to number one in the fashion category on the 2017 Forbes Top

Influencers list.

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Ferragni was also recently tapped to be an ambassador of Pomellato for Women, the Milanese jewelry brand’s campaign celebrating female leadership. “Chiara’s drive and resilience are remarkable,” says Pomellato CEO Sabina Belli. “She invented a job that didn’t exist, and her message is powerful: It is up to each of us to break the glass ceiling to live the life that we imagine.” The 31-year-old new mother is happy to return the compliment. “Pomellato’s values really resonate with me,” says Ferragni, whose son, Leo, just turned one. “I believe it’s possible to be both a boss and a mom—just keep working toward everything you dreamed you’d do.”

Of course, Ferragni’s free designer clothes and front-row seats didn’t manifest themselves immediately. In 2009, when she first began posting #ootd photos on her blog, the Blonde Salad, she was still a college student studying international law. Those early looks—a strategic mix of designer handbags, vintage finds, and Zara—captivated fans, who followed her to Instagram in 2012.

PHOTO BY TYLER JOE; PRADA SWEATER AND SKIRT; POMELLATO BRACELETS AND RINGS.

In 2013, she parlayed her loyal base into a cash cow by developing a namesake fashion line. As her audience continued to grow, she negotiated endorsement deals with a select group of luxury labels, which not only paid her handsomely for sponsored posts but also helped further elevate the profile of the Chiara Ferragni Collection by association. In 2015, Harvard Business School published a case study on her entrepreneurial success. Ferragni’s brand, which has an emoji-like winking eye as its signature motif, is now carried in more than 400 stores, including flagships in Milan, Paris, and Shanghai, and generates $25 million in annual revenue. ‰

“The secret to social media is not thinking about it too much.”

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“The secret to social media is not thinking about it too much,” says Ferragni, who usually adds four to six photos to her main Feed daily, more than most people post on Stories. For Ferragni, every moment is a shareable one—not to mention a potential product placement opportunity. Although a fair amount of her content is sponsored, much of it isn’t. From romantic dinners with her Italian rapper husband, Fedez, to playground trips with their son, nothing is off-limits.

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The couple’s nuptials in Sicily last year earned a cool $36 million in Media Impact Value for sponsor

brands, according to the data analytics firm Launchmetrics. The highly Instagrammable, three-day

extravaganza included a performance by the groom—a social media heavyweight in his own right, with 7.6

million followers—fireworks, a Ferris wheel, and a hashtag (#TheFerragnez). In terms of placements, the

biggest winners were Dior (which provided two couture gowns for the big day—one embroidered with lyrics

from “Favorisca I Sentimenti,” the song Fedez wrote to propose to Ferragni) and Prada (which supplied a

bespoke crystal-covered cocktail dress for the rehearsal dinner). For its part, Pomellato contributed his-and-

hers wedding bands swathed in pavé diamonds. #TheFerragnez, by some calculations, generated even more

online impact than the royal wedding, garnering 67 million interactions over four days.

“It was insane,” says Ferragni, sipping an espresso. We are sitting in a quiet corner of Pasticceria Marchesi, a retro-chic haven that looks like it was custom-built for Instagram. “I couldn’t believe Fedez and I got more buzz than a duchess and a prince.”

“I couldn’t believe Fedez and I got more buzz than a duchess and a prince.”

So what’s next for the queen bee of fashion partnerships? “Fedez and I would love to do more projects together,” she says. With their very millennial digital fluency and unique celebrity nexus between the worlds of fashion and music, the similarity between the Ferragnez and Kimye—the ne plus ultra of social media power couples—has not been lost on them. Fedez coyly named a track on his latest album “Kim & Kanye.” “I think Kim is a genius—she’s created so many different businesses,” says Ferragni. “Everything Kim and Kanye do is gold. Fedez and I are always like, ‘We’re gonna be best friends with them someday!’”

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La torta Jessica del Cambio, a Torino; croissant per la colazione daMarcesi, a Montenapoleone, a Milano; o da Sorarù, a Vicenza, perplum cake e Sacher dal sapore originale, accademico. Quindi, è prestodetto, quando le cose buone si intrecciano alla storia, il piacere èmaggiore e il fascino del contesto impareggiabile. Ho selezionato diecipasticcerie che oltre a sfornare prelibatezze ogni giorno - alcune sonoormai realtà anche a livello internazionale - uniscono fascino degliarredi, frequentazioni blasonate, o che hanno addirittura fatto la storiad’Italia, e una capacità invidiabile di rimanere nell'olimpo del "bon chic,bon genre" (i follower di Instagram ne sono la conferma).

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Situata nel centro storico di Torino nella splendida cornice di PiazzaCarignagno, sede del primo parlamento italiano, è diventata, negliultimi anni, un punto di riferimento della Pasticceria torinese (e nonsolo).

# Pfatisch - Via Sacchi, 42. Torino

La pasticceria Pfatisch è stata inaugurata nel 1915 dal famosomaestro di origine bavarese Gustavo Pfatisch nato nel 1887 a Fossanoe presto giunto a Torino. Nel 1921 l'attività venne trasferita nella sedeattuale di via Sacchi. Il palazzo, scelto dal fondatore, era uno splendidoedificio liberty firmato dal famoso architetto Pietro Fenoglio nel 1903con soffitti delle abitazioni e delle scale riccamente decorati in stilefloreale.

# Marchesi - Corso Vittorio Emanuele II/Via Santa Maria alla Porta,11/Via Monte Napoleone, 9. Milano

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La sede storica, a cui le due nuove location si rifanno, vanta ambientiristretti, soffitti bassi e decorati, stile primo ottocento e moltasostanza. Ora del gruppo Prada.

# Cova - Via Monte Napoleone, 8. Milano

Storica pasticceria milanese fondata nel 1817. Luogo di incontro e diincanto famoso in tutto il mondo, Cova celebra l’artigianalità, l’italianitàe l’eccellenza, offrendo a una clientela d’élite cosmopolita prodotti disublime qualità. E non solo a Milano, ormai Cova è un brandinternazionale.

# Antica Pasticceria Sorarù - Piazzetta Andrea Palladio, 17. Vicenza

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Il segreto del successo in pasticceria è: "Pazienza e precisione" paroladi Sergio Sorarù, l'ultimo discendente della dinastia che da due secolidelizia i vicentini con pastine, brioche e soprattutto plumcake.

# La Bomboniera - Via Trenta Ottobre, 3. Trieste

La Bomboniera è una pasticceria tipica austro-ungarica risalente al1836, in stile liberty, rimasta intatta per più di un secolo dove il temposembra essersi fermato. Qui si possono gustare dolci tipici triestinidella cultura austro-ungarica come la Rigojansci, le torte Pischinger,Sacher, Linzer, Dobos ma anche putizze, dolci ebraici di marzapane, lefave dei morti triestini o i mandorlati a scacchiera bianca e marrone.Tutto rigorosamente cotto nell'originale forno a legna.

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Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano è una “confetteria” nel significatosettecentesco del termine: un’impresa costituita da un laboratorioartigianale - dove si lavorano con ricette di antica tradizione la frutta, ifiori, il cacao, lo zucchero, le spezie - e da due prestigiose botteghe, dicui una vincolata dal Ministero per i Beni Culturali e ambientali.

# Just Peruzzi - Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 132. Bogliasco (GE)

Peruzzi nasce nel 1901. Fondata dalla Famiglia Peruzzi, da subitodiventa il ritrovo di mondanità e di conversazioni importanti, attorno aisuoi tavolini si centellinavano piccole prelibatezze e ci si accingeva a"far l’Italia". Dagli anni ‘70 è ormai ritrovo alla moda, d’arte, lavoro epiacere, dove provare una coppa del famoso “Paciugo”.

# Pasticceria Gemmi - Via Mazzini, 21. Sarzana (SP)

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Lo scrupoloso rispetto della tradizione nella lavorazione e nelle materieprime ha fatto sì che tutta la produzione della Pasticceria Gemmiconservi i sapori e le fragranze di una volta. Nascono così, oltre laSpungata, la focaccia sarzanese, il Buccellato, gli amaretti e tutta lagamma di dolci della tradizione sarzanese.

# Mucci - Via Andria Km 1,290. Trani (BT)

Tutto inizia nel lontano 1894 quando Nicola Mucci avvia il primolaboratorio nel pieno centro storico di Andria, dove attualmente èubicato il Museo del Confetto “Giovanni Mucci”. Da allora comincia aprodurre cioccolato, caramelle e confetti utilizzando per questi ultimi,le eccellenti mandorle di Andria, frutto del sapere contadino di unavolta.

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