Corso Como

This guide to Corso Como in Milan follows Carla Sozzani, a top editor at Italian Vogue who in 1990 bought a wrecked garage on this scrappy industrial street and turned it into a photography gallery, to the bafflement of Milan's fashion circles. It traces how the following year she expanded into a store, bookshop and garden cafe she called her own Italian piazza, working alongside photographers like Robert Mapplethorpe and Herb Ritts earlier in her career. Stand in the courtyard where that first wrecked garage once stood, at number ten on this quiet industrial street.