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La sciura: perhaps you’ve heard of her. Derived from an old Lombard word for “lady” or “ma’am”, a sciura is the embodiment of Milanese élan: tailored, understated, bourgeois-slim and usually of a certain age – “a woman whose elegant air and extensive designer closet propel her through daily life with unmistakable glamour”, as Harper’s Bazaar declared in an…

