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The General Of Milan

Il Generale is a 50-year-old man whom a lucky tram rider might spot one day dressed as an ancient Egyptian scribe and the next as an infantryman in the Imperial German Army.

German Foreign Volunteers Motor Unit

Il Generale

Il Generale

Il Generale

Vice: Hello, Michele. Tell me what you do.

Michele:

ragazzo-immagine

We should probably say, for the benefit of our non-Italian readers, that a ragazzo-immagine is a generally good-looking kid who is paid by events organizers and PR people to go to parties and look awesome. We have an actual specific term for it.

How did your passion for these costumes begin?

Annons

What do you mean?

Did you like his style or his music more?

You were a teenager in the 70s, a period of Italian history during which people would judge you socially and politically by the clothes you wore.

How do you decide which costume to wear in the morning?

For Elbe Day, I assume. Have people ever picked on you because of your eccentric fashion choices?

German Antiterrorism Special Forces

How many complete outfits do you have in your collection?

And how do you keep yourself informed?

I noticed that when you change outfits, you also speak a different language. Like, yesterday, you were wearing a German Army uniform and you said “auf Wiedersehen” when we parted ways.

Who do you think is the most stylish historical group?

You’d also need a horse.

Are there any characters that you can’t interpret?

Why do you have a mohawk these days?

Taxi Driver

Tell me the funniest story that has happened to you recently.

That’s not funny. What a dick.

CHiPs

policia

Do you ever wear normal clothes?

Swiss Cantonal Police

Spanish Civil Guard

American Highway Patrol

Chicago Police

Italian Decima Flottiglia MAS (commando frogman unit of the Italian Royal Navy created during the Fascist regime)

Russian Liberation Army

Commonwealth Air Force (Michele says that this is a mix of Australian and English air force uniforms and that this outfit is “pretty casual.”)

Aviation (another “casual outfit”)