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Isabella Rossellini
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Name: Isabella Given Rossellini and place of birth: 18 June 1952, Rome, Italy a life, to the asylum, the master churches to Elettra Rossellini, daughter of Isabella, as it would have made to return to house if one had gotten lost for road. It answered sure: "I put under an advertising billboard with the face of the mother and aspect". Ingenious solution: that one, in bottom, was the face more known the world, the S.O.S message would have been, sooner or later, recapitato. Nevertheless Isabella Rossellini, icona of a natural and sophisticated beauty ("calls to Me icona, makes also appeals to me, but I do not feel myself therefore. They are one models, not a model"), in front of the objective had been put late. Daughter of two myths of the cinemas, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, Isabella had preferred, like before choice, the machine from taken (the first film, Nina di Vincente Minnelli, is of 1976). She began to only rest to 28 years, for ìcolpaì of the friends photographers, more than all Bruce Weber, that they insisted to ritrarla. But that that one was its role, she was written. Star in little months became one. It is abbra red and vellutati eyes, the whitest skin and allure without time in the advertising campaigns of Lancome. With Richard Avedon in 1982 it realizes four covered some consecutive ones of Vogue America. The Rossellini remembers: "Coming from the cinema, I considered the fashion and the job of models totally futili things, tied to the single beauty. But I have understood that also lì it smashes in who has talent. It must transform themselves, transmit one history, a feeling. To work with Avedon has been an incredible experience. You feel in part author to you of the photo. It was made to guide from the expression of your face. ìTorna to the thought of primaì, it said to me, "it was beautifulr". Same involvement on the set with Irving Penn, than the photographer for its book Loads of Me in 1997: "do not make the mannequin in front of me, I must photograph as writer was one". Distant, absorbed, it alters. If its face is imagined mentally, it is looked at therefore. The collaboration with hard Lancome 14 years and is concluded officially between heated controversies in 1994, when for "caught up age limits" (42 years), the cosmetic house the liquid declaring of wanting to head at a young face of the French cinema, Juliette Binoche. "For mine fourtieth birthday", told to the age the Rossellini, "has found the house invaded of flowers sendes to you from Lancome. It seemed a funeral ". It was only an anticipated goodbye and much suffered. How it judges it today, after ten years? "many things are changed, in the world of the image, the press that has become so indiscreet to seem crowds. The only thing that I feel myself to say regarding that famous episode is that I can understand their logic, solo that was not right. Those contract but has open to me very many doors. I have worked with the best photographers, with art director extraordinary. It still appeals to a lot to make to me models it, but for the persons of my age the space more and more is reduced. The single thing that it counts is the giovinezza, in America above all ". The end of that society does not render it unemployed person, much less leaves them leans the "brand" of the maturity. Little days after the ufficializzazione of the lay-off, Isabella rests to New York for the campaign of Dolce & Gabbana, one griffe tutt' other that classic, amatissima from the young people. The photographer then, Mario Sorrenti, to the age has 23 years. A tooth-paste company, the Perlax, puts a giant announcement on the daily paper the Republic, with a telephone number: "Isabella we want to you, calls to us. Your smile is like that one of the Gioconda ". With deep Lancaster a line of cosmetics called Manifest (on purpose, but in Italy where is found? There was a eyeliner infallible). It is not testimonial but manager, creative mind: the idea èquella of a trick easy to use, to apply with the fingers and in which the same shadings they can be used indifferently for eyes, mouth, cheeks. They follow two fragrances manifest My and beautiful Isa. Never it has not been the problem of Isabella Rossellini to face the time that passes. Its career always has been a challenge opened to the laws that govern the world of the image. "My mother said: between the 45 and 65 years they do not arrive proposed interesting from the cinema. It must wait for ". But Isabella, 52 the 18 completed years june, has not had to attend so much. Demand from directors emerged for film already cult in the USA, like Roger Dodger di Dylan Kidd and the sadder music of the world of Guy Maddin, to spring has recited for before the time in theatre with the syndrome of Stendhal to Broadway. "To make my vanity models it gratifies all, even if has of the laborious aspects much. To recite is all an other thing. I have understood after to have toed make one's debut to theatre and tried tensions that I did not know. The evening of before I felt myself judged like in an arena: inch towards, straight inch ". At the moment it is turning to Vancouver Earthsea, a television miniseries, draft from the epic fantasy of the scrittrice Ursula K. the Gum, that the next December will be transmitted in America. Between Tolkien and Harry Potter, the film comes considered one of the most expensive television enterprises Americans. Isabella Rossellini will be the Great Sacerdotessa Thar, the personage key in the history. But it had not said that in America it counted only the giovinezza above all? From Vanity Fair, 29 July 2004 |
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