Man, the duplicity of tremulous responsibility. Because we all know, in ancient history, that man was the hunter, the farmer, the laborer. Then came the philosophers, the intellectuals: in one he ran the poets, and man was dividedinto two worlds: in one he ran towards the role of the protector, the champion, the sky, the rescuer; in the other, he stole away towards the horizon, the sky, the universe. Man left on conquest of exotic and undiscovered lands, towards a new era, taken there by the force of those who had the strength, and knowledge of those who had the brainpower. But he soon discovered that these two spere of being, the body and the mind, cannot live apart, they must coexist, step by step. So he evolved, shared and brokethe barriers between himself and his brothers, unitel he became the complete, modern and aware man of the noughties. But the traces of his trasformation over the centuries can be seen in these characters, these men who personify the place where they live and breathe: the hegemonic man, the American boy of Los Angeles; the androgynous, rebellious man of London; the metrosexual man, proud of his sexuality and his apparence, of Milan. Histry remains as a temperament but nota s an identity, man todey know where they have come from and where they want to go. No more barriers, no more fortresses, no more hiding places: this is L’Homme.