Mitzi Art and Fashion ---

Mamma Anna often told her: "If I had a penny for every pencil you wore down, you'd be rich!" Mitzi Micalef, her daughter, is a petite and gracious woman whose lively gaze radiates a world of magic. Mitzi is not just an artist, she is one. Together with the Urban Commerce District, we met the owner of Mitzi Art and Fashion to learn the story of her business. Entering the atelier on via Quarenghi, you are transported into another world, one that smells of grand theaters, of ethereal ballet étoiles and the runways of the greatest fashion designers. She started painting as a child and never stopped: "I paint all day, I blend colors and I always try to look beyond." "Perhaps," she tells us, "that's exactly what makes a painter: she sees shapes and colors, she sees beyond and sometimes I