Hey, who's the photographer on the stairs in the cover photo? It is Domenico Dolce, ready to supervise the shooting for the SS/12 Dolce&Gabbana man campaign by Mariano Vivanco.

Here Swide's overview of its beautiful protagonists. 

Francesco Scianna was born in Palermo on March 25th 1982, having debuted in theaters with Salvatore Quasimodo poetry recital in 1997. He featured in movies like "The most Beautiful day of my life" by Cristina Comencini (2002), "Baarìa" by Giuseppe Tornatore (2009), "I love you too much to say it to you" by Marco Ponti (2011). 

Filippo Nigro was born in Rome on December 3rd 1970. He graduated under the aegis of Lina Wertmuller, a renowned movie director, and started to act in 1998 in a comedy called "Women in white" (1998).  He acted in "The ignorant fairies" (2001) by Ferzan Ozpetek and in "Facing windows" (2003) by the same movie director for which he won the prize "Nastri d'Argento" as best supporting role and the Golden Globe of foreign press as a best actor. 

Primo Reggiani was born in Rome on November 5th 1983. He is thespian stock, son of Aldo Reggiani and Caterina Costantini. He started to act very young and proceeded to feature in movies like "The rebel Sicilian"(2009) by Marco Amenta and "Kiss me again" (2010) by Muccino. 

Giuseppe Fiorello, also known as Beppe, was born in Catania on March 12th 1969. After working as a showman on TV for some time, he undertook the acting career with successful movies such as "Baarìa" (2009) by Tornatore, "Terraferma" (2011) by Emanuele Crialese and worked as a dubber for Happy Feet.  

Thomas Trabacchi was born in Milan on September 5th 1966. He acted in several movies, some of them international productions, and tv series. Among them, "Now or never" (2003) by Lucio Pellegrini, "Waiting for the sun" (2008) by Ago Panini, "Barney's version" by Richard J. Lewis (2010). 

Chiara Francini was born in Florence on December 20th 1979. She acted in tv series and movies like "A Beautiful wife" (2008) by Leonardo Pieraccioni and she also acted in theatre.  Among the movies, "My Friends- how everything started " (2011) by Neri Parenti and The worst week of my life" (2011) by Alessandro Genovesi. 

The  SS/12 man Dolce&Gabbana campaign was the object of a fervid buzz among bloggers before it was publicly released. Here below find the links to the bloggers who talked about it: 

Elle Russia, Fashion Copious, Styloko, Fashion Daily, Karl is my unkle, Ohlalamag, Bello, Just by Lorenzi, Rene Schaller, Violeta Purple, Luksusowi, Vincent KO, The Fashion Spot, Homotography, Brieuc75, Mariacarla in Wonderland, Celebrities Style, Cocoa Butter, Sandra's Closet, The Fashionisto, Karma - Style Blog.

Written by: Elisa della Barba

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