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Moncler Group

Milano Cortina 2026

Cultural Activation Window

How a 58-year Olympic absence became one of luxury’s most precise cultural synchronization moments, and why the financial proof point arrives later.

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Close-up portrait of a young man with brown hair, a beard, wearing a white shirt and dark suit jacket, against a dark background. Rafael Leonardo Carlesso.

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Rafael Carlesso reads luxury as a cultural system, not only a market. His work is about how it creates beauty and desire, and why that power is harder to hold than it used to be.

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